Senior PHP Full Stack Developer
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Job description
Modern Stack - Work with Laravel 10+, TALL stack, Docker, Redis, AWS Small Team, Big Voice - Your ideas won't get lost; you'll help shape the platform's future Career Growth - Opportunity to contribute at both technical and strategic levels
Requirements
As a Senior PHP Full Stack Developer, you'll work with the TALL stack (Tailwind, Alpine, Laravel, Livewire), plus Docker, Redis, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines. You'll have autonomy, visibility, and the opportunity to make real architectural decisions that keep the platform fast, scalable, and production-ready.
If you enjoy solving complex problems, optimising systems, and pushing code that matters - this is the role for you.
What You'll Be Doing
Backend Leadership - Own service logic, scalable architecture, and integrations in Laravel (PHP 8+)
Queue Mastery - Improve reliability and error handling across background jobs & async processes
CI/CD & DevOps - Collaborate to strengthen pipelines, automated testing, and deployments
Containers & Environments - Manage Docker-based dev environments with multiple workers & services
Integrations - Work with APIs & services like Twilio, RingCentral, AWS
Frontend Collaboration - Contribute to UI components with Livewire, TailwindCSS, and Vite
Mentorship & Quality - Uphold coding standards, peer reviews, and guide best practices
Continuous Improvement - Tackle technical debt and contribute to long-term platform strategy
What We're Looking For
- Strong PHP (8.0+) & Laravel (10+) experience
- Full stack skills: Blade templating, Livewire components, TailwindCSS, Vite
- Solid MySQL database design & optimisation experience
- Skilled with Redis (queues, caching) and background job processing
- Comfortable in containerised environments (Docker, docker-compose)
- Experience with CI/CD workflows, Git, and modern dev practices
- Strong communicator who collaborates well across functions
- Pragmatic approach to testing (PHPUnit, CI pipelines)
- Ability to work independently while influencing project direction
Benefits & conditions
£50k-£60k salary
Company pension scheme
Sick pay
Medicash healthcare scheme
Ready to Make Your Mark?