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# Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

- **Company:** IRIS Software Group
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, DevOps, Laravel, MariaDB, Software Engineering, Web Application Frameworks, ReactJS, Technical Debt, Gitlab, React Native, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840615788-senior-software-engineer-php

## About the Role

* 5+ years' experience in software engineering
 * Strong experience building and shipping scalable web applications
 * Comfortable in Agile environments with sprint-based delivery
 * Strong knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps principles
 * Experience supporting production systems
 * Passion for mentoring and raising engineering standards

Bonus points for experience in regulated sectors (finance, health, govtech) or working with AI tools to improve engineering productivity., * Opportunity to influence technical direction

 * Exposure to enterprise scale systems
 * Clear progression opportunities

If you're a senior engineer who enjoys owning delivery, shaping solutions, and developing others - we'd love to hear from you.

## Description

You'll spend the majority of your time writing high quality code while also:

 * Driving end-to-end feature delivery
 * Partnering with Product on roadmap and prioritisation
 * Mentoring and supporting junior engineers
 * Leading best practice adoption (testing, CI/CD, observability)
 * Contributing to architectural decisions
 * Managing technical debt and platform health
 * Supporting incident resolution and continuous improvement

Core:

 * PHP (Laravel)
 * ReactJS
 * Relational databases
 * Docker
 * React Native
 * MariaDB
 * Jenkins
 * GitLab


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