Senior PHP Developer in Liphook

At Gallagher Benefit Services, you’re a trusted partner to organizations navigating some of their most important people decisions. We help clients build better workplaces, where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive. Whether it’s shaping benefit strategies, designing wellbeing programs, or advising on workforce challenges, the work you do here creates meaningful change for businesses and the people who power them.

We’re looking for a Senior PHP Developer to join our team. You’ll work on a cutting-edge, data-driven platform that supports global digital solutions. This platform is built as a headless, RESTful PHP application and integrates with various frontend technologies. You’ll play a key role in maintaining, enhancing, and evolving this platform, ensuring it’s secure, efficient, and scalable.

You’ll collaborate with a talented team, including the Principal Developer and Head of Technology, to shape the future of our backend systems. This is a hands-on role where you’ll contribute to the development of modular microservices and cloud-native solutions.

Tech Stack: PHP 8, Symfony, Doctrine ORM, Docker, Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform.

Environment is Hybrid where you will be expected to come into the office once a week (near commutes to our offices are London, Liphook, Wakefield, Leeds, Manchester or Bristol).

How you'll make an impact:

• Maintain and improve our PHP-based platform, focusing on stability, security, and performance.
• Develop reusable and scalable backend services using PHP 8, Symfony, and Doctrine ORM.
• Help transition our platform to a microservices architecture, ensuring seamless integration with frontend applications via RESTful APIs.
• Collaborate on API design, support CI/CD workflows, and contribute to secure coding practices.
• Mentor junior developers and stay updated on the latest advancements in PHP and cloud-native design.

About You:

• You’re an experienced PHP developer with a strong background in Symfony and relational databases like MySQL.
• You’re familiar with containerised development using Docker and Kubernetes and have experience with microservices and event-driven systems.
• You understand secure development principles and modern workflows like Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure) is a plus.
• You’re a problem-solver with excellent debugging and optimisation skills.
• You’re also a team player who enjoys mentoring others and contributing to a collaborative environment.

Eligibility: You must have the right to work in the UK.

Compensation and benefits:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days.
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to.
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x.
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up.
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance.
• Three fully paid volunteering days per year.
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount.
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan.
• Critical illness cover.
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally.
• Season ticket loan.
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase.
• Emergency back-up family care.

We value inclusion and diversity. Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work. Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com. If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.