At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and enhance a Laravel-based web application for student engagement.
- Company: Join a leading university with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, health benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse community that values inclusivity and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on student experience and wellbeing through technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in PHP, Laravel, MySQL, and agile workflows is essential.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
We are seeking a talented and motivated Full-Stack Application Developer to join our collaborative development team. This role is central to scaling a successful faculty-level initiative into a University-wide student attendance and engagement platform. You will play a key role in enhancing an existing Laravel-based application, building new features, and contributing to solutions that directly improve student experience, wellbeing, and engagement across the institution. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a meaningful product that delivers real-world impact by enabling early intervention and support for students.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and enhance features within a Laravel-based web application
- Contribute to the expansion of an attendance monitoring system into a university-wide solution
- Translate user stories into scalable, maintainable technical solutions
- Collaborate in Agile (Scrum) delivery cycles, including sprint planning, stand‑ups, and retrospectives
- Participate in technical design discussions and white‑boarding sessions
- Conduct and contribute to code reviews to maintain high engineering standards
- Work closely with business analysts and stakeholders to clarify requirements and define acceptance criteria
- Develop and maintain unit, integration, and end‑to‑end tests
- Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensure quality delivery
The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. This is a full‑time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed‑term contract until 30th April 2027.
About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
- Proven track record of developing in PHP 8.0 or newer, and Laravel 11 – 13
- Deep understanding of developing on MySQL, MariaDB or AWS Aurora, writing and optimising queries (especially in ANSI SQL)
- Hands‑on experience using Git version control, deployment pipelines, and agile workflows
- Practical experience writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests, working with a testing team
- Hands‑on experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
- Demonstrable history of successful projects e.g. GitHub repos or ability to talk in detail
- Frontend CSS development experience in Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap
- Deep understanding of software design principles and best practices
- Computer Science Degree
- Experience architecting and managing containers on AWS
At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university. The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension. We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination. When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King’s guidance.
Full Stack Developer employer: King’s College London
At King’s, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and inclusive work culture. As a Full Stack Developer, you will have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects that enhance student engagement and wellbeing, while benefiting from professional growth opportunities in a supportive environment. Our commitment to diversity and academic freedom ensures that every team member can thrive and make a real impact within the university community.
