At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and optimise PHP-based APIs and backend services in a collaborative team.
- Company: Award-winning tech company rapidly scaling with innovative products.
- Benefits: Up to £70,000 salary, annual bonus, and competitive benefits package.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Take ownership of impactful projects in a fast-paced, large-scale environment.
- Qualifications: 5+ years PHP experience, strong MySQL knowledge, and cloud platform familiarity.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Senior PHP Developer Location
Fareham | Hybrid | On-site Salary
Up to £70,000 + benefits Were working with a well-established, award-winning technology business thats scaling rapidly and building a suite of market-leading products.
As they continue to expand, theyre looking for an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join their backend engineering team.
Youll 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 Youll 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.
Helping to decouple a large PHP 7.4 monorepo into modern PHP 8.1+ 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, youll bring a strong balance of hands-on coding expertise, initiative and problem-solving ability.
Essential experience: 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.
Youll enjoy working at pace, taking ownership of projects, and improving systems operating at global scale.
Additional
Benefits: Annual bonus -10% Competitive benefits package If this sounds like you then please click apply now!
Please note: We are unable to provide any sponsorship for this role.
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Senior Backend Engineer in Hampshire employer: develop
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