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# Product Engineer, Backend

- **Company:** Kinship
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £66,732.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Databases, DevOps, Programming Tools, Laravel, Symfony, Backend, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Performance Monitor, Front End Software Development, Cloudwatch, Docker
- **Published:** October 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5326559794

## About the Role

* Strong experience with PHP (we use PHP 8+)
 * Familiarity with containerized environments using Docker
 * Product mindset - you think in terms of user value, not just technical correctness
 * Clear communicator and thoughtful collaborator
 * Someone who's excited to work in a small, fast-moving team
 * Knowledge of Laravel or Symfony
 * Comfortable with AWS basics - think deploying apps, storing files, managing databases
 * Experience designing or evolving APIs in production
 * Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
 * Interest in DevOps, observability, or developer tooling

## Description

We're looking for a backend-focused engineer who enjoys building clean APIs, designing resilient systems, and keeping things fast, simple, and secure. Someone who's comfortable working in PHP, knows their way around Docker, and can help us make the most of AWS to ship reliable software at speed.

 * Build and maintain backend services in modern PHP
 * Design and implement APIs consumed by our frontend and desktop apps
 * Use Docker to standardize development and streamline deployments
 * Work with AWS services (e.g. ECS, S3, RDS, CloudWatch) to keep our systems fast and reliable
 * Collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to ship features
 * Write tests and monitor performance so we can trust our stack at scale