At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and optimise PHP-based APIs and backend services in a collaborative team.
- Company: Award-winning tech company with a focus on innovation and growth.
- Benefits: Up to £70k salary, bonus, excellent benefits, and hybrid work options.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth and ownership of impactful projects.
- Why this job: Join a fast-paced environment and make a real impact on high-traffic products.
- Qualifications: 5+ years PHP experience, strong MySQL knowledge, and cloud platform familiarity.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 60000 £ per year.
Senior PHP Developer | Hybrid or Onsite in Fareham | Up to £70k + Bonus + Excellent Benefits!
We’re working with a well-established, award-winning technology business that’s scaling rapidly and building a suite of market-leading products.
As they continue to expand, they’re looking for an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join their backend engineering team.
You’ll play a key role in modernising core systems, improving scalability, and supporting the delivery of new features across a range of high-traffic products.
The Role
You’ll join a collaborative, cross-functional team of backend, frontend and QA engineers, reporting to an Engineering Manager who has grown through the ranks internally.
This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of impactful work in a fast-paced, large-scale environment.
Key responsibilities include
- Designing, building and optimising PHP-based APIs and backend services.
- Working with a stack including AWS, Kubernetes, My SQL, Rabbit MQ, Redis, and Cassandra.
- Collaborating closely with frontend, QA and product teams in a Kanban workflow.
- Contributing ideas to improve scalability, performance and reliability.
- Taking ownership from concept through to deployment- they deploy to production daily.
About You
To thrive in this role, you’ll bring a strong balance of hands‑on coding expertise, initiative and problem‑solving ability.
- 5+ years’ commercial experience with PHP.
- Strong understanding of My SQL and messaging systems such as Rabbit MQ and Redis.
- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus.
- Pragmatic, delivery - focused mindset - “perfection is the enemy of success.”
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
You’ll enjoy working at pace, taking ownership of projects, and improving systems operating at global scale.
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