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# Senior PHP Engineer (£75k-£120k + Equity) at Lendable.co.uk

- **Company:** Jack and Jill AI
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,000.0 - £120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Automation of Tests, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Digital Architecture, Github, Symfony, Web Application Frameworks, Phpunit, Behat, Domain Driven Design, Microservices
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840674714-senior-php-engineer-75k-120k--equity-at-lendablecouk

## About the Role

* Has 5+ years of commercial PHP experience with deep expertise in PHP 8.0+ and modern frameworks like Symfony.
 * Demonstrates a strong grasp of Domain-Driven Design, message-driven systems, and microservices architecture in a product-led environment.
 * Thrives in high-autonomy settings, making pragmatic technical trade-offs while maintaining a high degree of ownership over business-critical systems.

## Description

Join an 80-strong engineering team to scale Lendable's leading consumer finance products. You will own problems end-to-end, building and integrating APIs across a modern PHP 8 and Symfony stack. As an individual contributor, you'll drive technical decisions through design forums while supporting the company's high-growth expansion into the US market., * Work at a profitable £3.5bn valuation unicorn backed by elite investors like Balderton Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

 * Ship code daily using a world-class CI/CD pipeline featuring GitHub Actions and ArgoCD for continuous deployment to production on feature completion.
 * Enjoy premium perks including in-house chefs preparing fresh daily lunches in Shoreditch, private health insurance, and a collaborative, low-ego engineering culture.

What you will do

 * Design, build, and integrate new APIs across lending platforms while tuning existing services for massive scale.
 * Participate in frequent collaborative design forums to influence technical architecture and solve complex engineering challenges.
 * Implement robust automated testing using Behat and PHPUnit to ensure high-quality delivery within a Domain-Driven Design architecture.


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