Whichrate Group is an established, successful and expanding technology company, based in Stafford. Our service is within the legal and insurance sector.Our online software solution suite has become the flagship of our expanding company. We have an opportunity to become part of the Whichrate family at atime of expansion for the company.
We’re looking for a capable and passionate Full Stack Web Developer to join our growing IT team and play a key role in shaping and evolving our suite of SaaS products. This is a hands-on position for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, improving architecture and contributing meaningfully across both backend and frontend layers of modern applications.
As part of our development team, you’ll take ownership of core service logic, background processing, and third-party integrations. You’ll work with modern technologies from the Laravel, Vue and Inertia stack - including Tailwind, Redis, and AWS - while helping to define technical best practices and ensure smooth, scalable deployments.
This is a high-impact role offering autonomy, visibility, and the opportunity to drive improvements across the stack.
The role requires good troubleshooting skills to interpret and diagnose any bugs reported and to accurately report the steps to reproduce an issue, diagnose the issue and implement fixes with the team.
The postholder will be a self-motivated individual with a keen desire to learn new processes and keep current with trends. A professional, who can develop positive relationships to encourage the best in other team members. This will require good communication skills and the ability to prepare reports to all levels of management within our company.
Requirements
* Strong commercial development experience with PHP (8.0+) and Laravel with a focus on building robust, maintainable systems
* Ability to administrate cloud-hosted Linux servers and MySQL databases
* Familiar with version control and modern development workflows using Git, pull requests, and peer reviews
* Solid understanding of database design and optimisation and experience working with Redis for caching and queues
* A pragmatic approach to testing and quality assurance, ideally with exposure to Pest/PHPUnit and CI practices
* Ability to write and optimise complex SQL queries
* Self-starter with an investigative mindset for thinking out of the box
* Clear communicator, capable of explaining technical concepts and collaborating effectively with team members across disciplines
Nice to Have
* Familiarity with other languages (such as Python)
* Experience with various AWS cloud products
* Understanding of WebSockets
* Experience with the wider Laravel ecosystem (such as Nightwatch, Forge, Spatie packages)
* Working experience of interacting on a software development project management system, such as Jira
* Ability to mentor and guide other developers
Application Process
Please apply through the Whichrate LinkedIn with your CV.
1. Introductions - a relaxed chat to get to know each other either at our offices in Stafford or via Microsoft Teams
2. Technical task - a small take-away task to show us what you can do
3. Final conversation - at our offices in Stafford with our directors
Please no recruiters or agencies.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Legal Services
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