Senior Software Developer

Salary: £55,000 - 55,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial Laravel and PHP development experience
• Experience supporting applications relied upon by users in a live operational environment
• Demonstrable ownership of change control, release management or software-delivery processes
• Practical application-security knowledge, including secure code review, dependency management and secrets hygiene
• Confidence using Git, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-hosted deployment environments
• AWS experience, ideally
• The ability to manage parallel workstreams and communicate progress honestly
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Sound judgement when balancing immediate operational requirements against longer-term technical considerations
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools
• iOS development experience using Swift or SwiftUI
• App Store release experience
• A recognised security, development or delivery qualification
• Experience within a multi-site operating environment
• Experience introducing greater structure and consistency into a growing development team
• Software development: 3 years
• Ability to commute/relocate to Chester, Cheshire or plan to relocate before starting work
• Work authorisation in the United Kingdom

Responsibilities:

• Build, improve and maintain Laravel applications used across the business
• Work with PHP, Laravel, MySQL, REST APIs and AWS services
• Contribute to mobile development where your experience allows
• Deliver reliable, maintainable and well-documented solutions
• Develop and improve change control and release processes
• Maintain clear records of what has been released, why it changed and how it can be rolled back
• Use code reviews as an effective quality control process
• Improve branching, deployment and environment-management practices
• Help ensure releases are controlled, predictable and production-safe
• Coordinate several products and workstreams simultaneously
• Identify blockers, risks and potential delays at an early stage
• Translate requests from operational and commercial teams into clearly scoped and sequenced development work
• Provide straightforward progress updates to non-technical stakeholders
• Maintain documentation so that work can be understood and continued by others
• Establish practical secure-coding standards, checklists and review criteria
• Introduce appropriate dependency scanning, static analysis, secrets management and pipeline controls
• Support proportionate threat modelling for new development
• Coordinate vulnerability assessment and remediation
• Work closely with the wider IT and cyber security function
• Help the development team adopt security standards as part of its everyday work

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Git
• Support
• Laravel
• Mobile
• MySQL
• PHP
• REST
• Security
• Swift
• iOS

More:

We are recruiting a Senior Software Developer for an established, growing business. This is a hands-on development role with a broader remit than a typical senior developer position, combining business-critical application development with improvements to how software changes are planned, reviewed, secured and released. You will join a small, capable software team and report to the Director of IT in a collaborative, pragmatic environment with considerable scope to influence development standards as the team and technology estate grow. The role is split approximately across 50% hands-on development, 30% delivery, change control and governance, and 20% secure development. The working environment has minimal bureaucracy and values straightforward communication, reliable engineering and solutions that work effectively for operational users. We offer a salary from £55,000 per year and benefits including casual dress, company events, company pension, discounted or free food, employee discount, free parking, on-site parking and work from home. The position is hybrid remote in Chester.

last updated 37 week of 2026