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# Full Stack Software Developer

- **Company:** SOUTHERN COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
- **Location:** Melton, UK
- **Salary:** £43,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Automation of Tests, Databases, Software Design Patterns, Laravel, MySQL, Node.Js, Object-Oriented Software Development, Queueing Systems, RabbitMQ, Redis, Software Engineering, ReactJS, Software Troubleshooting, Gitlab, Event Driven Architecture, Build Management, Puppet, Software Version Control, Docker
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=788ca6fc7b033418

## About the Role

* Are happy working in a team and communicating to achieve clarity
 * Like to solve complex technical challenges
 * Are comfortable developing in an incremental fashion
 * Can adapt to rapidly evolving requirements in a fast-paced environment
 * Approach technical challenges and difficulties in a pragmatic and logical fashion
 * Are comfortable reviewing, releasing, deploying and troubleshooting your and other people's code

Skills Required:

Essential experience:

 * Knowledge of the product development lifecycle
 * Working experience with modern PHP including frameworks (e.g. Laravel)
 * Working experience with modern frontend frameworks/libraries (e.g. React)
 * Source control (e.g. GitLab)
 * Working experience with databases (e.g. MySQL)
 * Strong knowledge of software design patterns and object-oriented design principles
 * Working experience of test frameworks

Desired experience:

 * Experience with Message Queues (e.g. RabbitMQ) & event driven architecture
 * Node.js
 * Healthcare industry experience (NHS)

## Description

* Work within an agile team to solve technical challenges and develop new functionality to our products and services
 * Contribute towards translating business requirements into technical design and development projects and tasks
 * Contribute in architectural and design discussions
 * Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues
 * Identify and contribute towards developing solutions to improve system security, performance, scalability, and reliability
 * Adhere to best software engineering practices and principles
 * Collaborate with other members of the team through remote and in-person collaboration, work together with all stakeholders to understand and progress projects and tasks

Our core tech stack (What you will use):

 * PHP + Laravel
 * React
 * MySQL
 * GitLab
 * RabbitMQ

Other tech (What you can learn) :

 * Electron
 * Redis
 * Docker
 * Puppet (build and deploy)


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