Job Details
Work Mode
Hybrid
Experience
Senior
Employment
Full-time
Salary
£60,000 - £70,000 p/y
Posted
Today
Job Overview
Category
Backend
Work Mode
Hybrid
Experience
Senior
Employment
Full-time
Salary
£60,000 - £70,000 p/y
Posted
Today
Tech Stack
Required technologies & tools
Laravel
Nuxt
MySQL
PHP
Azure
Git
Docker
CSS
CI/CD
Linux
Symfony
CakePHP
Html5
VueJs
Javascript (Es6+)
Wsl
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Perks & Benefits
About the Role
Senior PHP Developer
Overview
A growing organisation is seeking a Senior PHP Developer to join its internal technology team, supporting the development and enhancement of its business-critical CRM platform.
Working within an Agile Scrum team, you will deliver scalable backend solutions, take ownership of complex features, contribute to technical improvements, and support engineering best practices across the team.
Roles & Responsibilities
Skills & Experience
Qualifications
A-Level or equivalent required.
- Basingstoke (Hybrid - 1 day onsite per week)
- Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 per annum
Overview
A growing organisation is seeking a Senior PHP Developer to join its internal technology team, supporting the development and enhancement of its business-critical CRM platform.
Working within an Agile Scrum team, you will deliver scalable backend solutions, take ownership of complex features, contribute to technical improvements, and support engineering best practices across the team.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend systems using PHP (Laravel/CakePHP).
- Deliver features end-to-end, from design and development through to testing and deployment.
- Enhance and modernise legacy CakePHP applications.
- Build and maintain APIs, integrations, and backend services.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Contribute to code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD processes.
- Support architecture decisions, technical improvements, and reduction of technical debt.
- Troubleshoot production issues and support continuous improvement.
- Mentor developers through knowledge sharing, coaching, and code reviews.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, QA, DevOps, and wider technology teams.
Skills & Experience
- 5+ years’ commercial experience in PHP development.
- Strong experience with PHP 7.4 (CakePHP) and PHP 8+ (Laravel/Symfony).
- Experience building RESTful APIs and backend services.
- Strong MySQL knowledge, including query optimisation and performance tuning.
- Understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
- Experience with JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS, Git, Docker, and Linux/WSL environments.
- Strong experience with unit testing, automated testing, and code reviews.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
- Exposure to Vue.js/Nuxt, Azure, CI/CD pipelines, messaging technologies, microservices, or event-driven architectures is desirable.
- Experience working within regulated industries such as Insurance or Financial Services is beneficial.
Qualifications
A-Level or equivalent required.
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