Backend Developer - Core PHP/MySQL for Florist Ecommerce Platform

Postaladdress Uk

Ashton-under-Lyne, United Kingdom

2 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Shift work

Languages

English

Experience level

Intermediate

Compensation

£ 42K

Job location

Remote

Ashton-under-Lyne, United Kingdom

Tech stack

PHP

API

JIRA

LAMP

Databases

Cron

Software Debugging

Google Maps

MySQL

Nginx

Performance Tuning

Server Administration

GIT

Stripe

Cloudflare

Docker

Job description

Fix bugs and improve existing functionality

Plan and create new features based on customer tickets
Improve database reliability and performance
Maintain third-party APIs
Communicate clearly, estimate honestly, and document important changes

Ideal person:

Careful, reliable, and detail-focused
Strong problem solver who can trace issues through a real production codebase
Happy working on an established custom platform
Understands e-commerce logic and the importance of not breaking live orders or payments

Requirements

The developer can be based outside the UK, but ideally should be available for at least part of the UK working day, especially between 1pm and 5pm UK GMT:0 time.

Key skills needed:

Strong Core PHP experience, ideally PHP 8+
Excellent MySQL knowledge, including queries, joins, indexes, schema changes, and debugging data issues
Experience working on e-commerce platforms, including orders, products, checkout, payments etc
Experience with APIs including Stripe, Cloudflare, Google Maps, Mandrill
Cron jobs, Docker, Nginx, PHP-FPM, Jira, Git
Comfortable working with existing and legacy codebases
Performance optimisation
Security best practices
Server management, especially LAMP stack environments