Senior PHP Developer

This is a senior, hands-on role with real influence over how our systems are designed, built and evolved.

Responsibilities

Lead and improve back-end systems

• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested PHP using Symfony
• Take ownership of parts of the platform and be trusted to improve them over time
• Raise quality through better structure, clearer boundaries and safer patterns

Shape technical direction

• Contribute to architectural decisions and refactoring strategies
• Help define how we build software, not just what we build
• Balance pragmatism with long-term maintainability in legacy environments

Improve developer experience

• Identify pain points in tooling, testing or workflows and help fix them
• Champion sensible standards, automation and test strategy
• Leave the codebase easier to work with than you found it

Mentor and collaborate

• Support and mentor other developers through code reviews and discussion
• Work closely with delivery managers, testers, designers and frontend developers
• Communicate clearly about technical decisions, risks and trade-offs

You'll thrive in this role if you

• Have strong working experience in PHP, OOP and design principles (SOLID, patterns, clean code)
• Are comfortable working in legacy systems and improving them incrementally
• Care about test strategy and quality - not just shipping features
• Have solid experience with MySQL and relational data modelling
• Build and consume APIs thoughtfully
• Use modern tooling (Docker, Git, PHPStan, PHPUnit, CI/CD)
• Have hands-on experience with Symfony
• Enjoy collaborating, mentoring, and learning from others