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# PHP Developer (Symfony)

- **Company:** Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Ltd
- **Location:** Colchester, UK
- **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £55,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Linux, Symfony, Amazon Relational Database Service, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840621111-php-developer-symfony

## About the Role

* PHP
 * Symfony
 * API
 * AWS
 * Linux

## Description

* Develop PHP code using Symfony
 * Design and implement APIs and microservices
 * Optimise performance and scalability using AWS services (EC2, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Lambda, RDS)


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