PHP Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced PHP engineer to join our team and help Evoluted deliver bespoke solutions for our diverse clients; someone who loves to code high-performing projects but never forgets the humans who both write and benefit from them.

This is a fully hybrid role so you can work remotely, or come in to our Sheffield office, or a bit of both! We have once-a-month in-office days and we also all get together four(ish) times a year for company days. So while you must be located in the UK, you\’ll have the flexibility to work how you want while staying connected with our team.

Fully Hybrid Working

We offer a 100% hybrid working environment – whether youposed work from home, our Sheffield HQ or anything in between. So whether you just wanna sit in your PJs and get your head down or drop by the office for a more social working environment, it\’s totally up to you!

We all want to know what the next step in our career looks like and more importantly, how we can get there. That\’s why we built our own bespoke performance management tool combining clear skill-based progression pathways with qualitative appraisals to get a 360-view of your personal development.

Training & Education

Learning never stops, no matter your age or experience, so we provide expensed conference trips, in-house lunch & learn sessions, external training specialists, courses, books and more. £750 dedicated personal training budgets, bi-annual reviews and regular 1:1s create personalised development plans to get you where you want to go.

Mental Health Support

With a shift in awareness and a rise in mental health support requirements, more people than ever are talking about their mental health and wellbeing at work. Evoluted have contracted Sanctus to provide trained mental health coaches who are available every month to anyone who would like a safe space to talk.

Profit Share Scheme

20% of Evoluted\’s profit from client-related work is shared equally amongst the whole team every year in December\’s payroll. We love being able to share the rewards from our company’s success with our team, providing a well-deserved end of year bonus as a thankyou for your commitment and hard work.

Flexi-Time

We know that everyone\’s lives are a little bit different and we all have our own commitments away from work. Our flexi-time policy means you can work anytime between 7am and 7pm, leaving plenty of time for appointments, school runs, workouts, siestas or whatever else might come up!

Key skills and technologies

Strong PHP skills – you should be comfortable with modern, object-oriented PHP and familiar with the features introduced in recent versions (e.g. enums, property hooks)

Framework proficiency – we use Laravel but experience with Symfony, Yii, Cake, Spiral etc. is welcome, more than surface knowledge and evidence of solving real-world problems is expected

Database knowledge – being able to use SQL as well as an ORM, we use PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MySQL and occasionally MongoDB

Version control – we use Git (and GitLab) extensively so your commit history should be clean and readable, if you regularly rebase your branches you’ll fit right in

CMS experience – we often integrate and extend off-the-shelf CMS systems, we use Craft and Statamic but examples with any PHP-based CMS (e.g. Wordpress, Drupal, October) are welcome

Automated testing – we use all sorts of automated testing suites from PHPUnit to Behat to Cypress so familiarity with testing your own code is expected

Performance optimisation – efficient code and database queries that don’t use excessive resources are a critical requirement for many of our projects

Security – writing secure code and staying current with best practices keeps us and our clients prepared and safe

Docker – all of our development environments, as well as some of our production ತು, use Docker so experience with containers and containerised applications would be valuable

Software architecture – not just design patterns (but we do quite like the command pattern), but caching,retval asynchronous processing and more are all used to make robust, efficient systems

CI/CD – we use GitLab’s pipelines to maintain our code quality and for internal testing Conselus, if you’ve used GitHub actions, CircleCI, Jenkins or similar systems you’ll already know how transformative they can be

Infrastructure – cloud-based providers like AWS and GCP are the backbone of our production hosting so any familiarity with those platforms or infrastructure-as-code systems like Pulumi or Ansible would be a boon

Planning – we understand that being a developer/engineer isn’t just about writing code, so any experience in software planning like wireframes, specification writing, data modelling, database design, API design or similar would be hugely beneficial

Legacy refactoring – not all of our projects are modern and greenfield, and being able to work on and positively uplift older projects (not rewrite them!) is a skill we hold in very high regard

The projects you’ll work on power everything from schoolwear manufacturers to dog shows to doctors’ surgeries. We tailor the technology we use to the problem at hand so you’ll work on fully bespoke applications, deeply customised CMSs, and off-the-shelf Shopify stores.

Your day-to-day will include:

Developing, implementing, and bug fixing features on both existing and new projects

Writing unit, feature, and integration tests to ensure your code works both now and in the future

Reviewing the code of your teammates and testing their work against a spec to help maintain our quality and reduce serious bugs

Planning features and projects with the rest of our digital team

Deploying projects to live systems and ensuring they’re working and performant

Your day-to-day won’t include:

Writing code all day: we’re not a factory and while writing code to solve interesting problems is a big part of the job, your knowledge and skills are more valuable so planning, estimating, and both team and project meetings will all be part of your day

Client communication: we have a stellar project management team who handle client requests and meetings, however if you do want to talk to clients, we can absolutely accommodate that

This role is ideally suited to someone with a few years professional experience but is open to more senior applicants. We have a broad range of skill levels within the team, strongly believe in career progression, and have options for our engineers to advance on either a technical track or leadership track. We expect applications for a more senior role to cover more of the “Beneficial skills” list above and also to demonstrate project leadership e.g. working within a small, aligned team.

If you\’re located in the UK, can travel to Sheffield a few times a year, and all this sounds like a role you’d thrive in drop us your CV and covering letter and we’ll be in touch. We understand Vibe-coding is the buzz word of the day, but we build for real people. We therefore expect our team to be comfortable writing and understanding their own code without an over reliance on AI.

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