Salary: £47,000 - 55,000 per year
Requirements: - Strong commercial PHP development experience
- Hands-on Laravel experience
- Experience with REST APIs, API integrations and third-party services
- MySQL and relational database knowledge
- Understanding of performance optimisation for applications and databases
- Experience with PHPUnit and automated testing
- Familiarity with Git/GitHub, clean code and modern software engineering practices
- Experience with Vue.js, TypeScript and JavaScript
- Understanding of software engineering principles including maintainability, testing, scalability, security and performance
- Experience in a SaaS, product-led or software development environment would be particularly relevant
- Experience with AWS, Docker and CI/CD is useful
- Experience with Node.js, cloud-native development or AI-assisted development tools would also be useful
Responsibilities: - Design, build and improve scalable, secure SaaS applications using PHP and Laravel
- Develop and integrate RESTful APIs, third-party services and backend functionality
- Work extensively with MySQL and relational databases, including performance optimisation
- Contribute to product functionality across Vue.js, JavaScript and TypeScript
- Work closely with Product Owners, Designers and other Software Engineers to deliver features from requirements through development, testing and release
- Write clean, maintainable and well-tested PHP code
- Contribute to technical discussions around software architecture, application security, performance, scalability and engineering standards
Technologies: - AI
- API
- AWS
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Docker
- Git
- GitHub
- JavaScript
- Laravel
- MySQL
- PHP
- PHPUnit
- REST
- Security
- TypeScript
- Vue
- NodeJS
- DevOps
- Frontend
More:
We are an established software engineering team working on a successful global SaaS platform used by organisations around the world. This is a permanent, full-time Senior PHP Developer role based in Northampton with a hybrid working model of two days per week in the office. We offer a competitive salary plus benefits and the opportunity to remain hands-on with PHP, Laravel, MySQL and REST API development while broadening experience across Vue.js, TypeScript, AWS, Docker and modern SaaS engineering.
last updated 39 week of 2026