Senior PHP Developer
Location: Fareham | Hybrid | On-site
Salary: Up to £70,000 + benefits
We're working with a well-established, award-winning technology business that's scaling rapidly and building a suite of market-leading products.
As they continue to expand, they're looking for an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join their backend engineering team. You'll play a key role in modernising core systems, improving scalability, and supporting the delivery of new features across a range of high-traffic products.
The Role
You'll join a collaborative, cross-functional team of backend, frontend and QA engineers, reporting to an Engineering Manager who has grown through the ranks internally. This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of impactful work in a fast-paced, large-scale environment.
Key responsibilities include:
Designing, building and optimising PHP-based APIs and backend services.
Helping to decouple a large PHP 7.4 monorepo into modern PHP 8.1+ services.
Working with a stack including AWS, Kubernetes, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Cassandra.
Collaborating closely with frontend, QA and product teams in a Kanban workflow.
Contributing ideas to improve scalability, performance and reliability.
Taking ownership from concept through to deployment- they deploy to production daily.
About You
To thrive in this role, you'll bring a strong balance of hands-on coding expertise, initiative and problem-solving ability.
Essential experience:
4+ years' commercial experience with PHP.
Strong understanding of MySQL and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ and Redis.
Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
Familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus.
Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset- "perfection is the enemy of success."
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
You'll enjoy working at pace, taking ownership of projects, and improving systems operating at global scale.
Additional Benefits:
Annual bonus-10%
29 days' holiday (+ length of service accrual)
BUPA health & dental cover
Subscriptions paid for- netflix, spotify, apple music
£50 voucher every month
long service awards
Pension & death-in-service
Gym and golf memberships
Food allowance and local perks
Free state of the art onsite gym, bar, barista, barbers and amazing (Interior designed) social spaces
Team events and personal development support
Interview Process
Stage 1: Video call / introductory screen
Stage 2: Live coding exercise
Stage 3: Face-to-face with Engineering Manager, VP and Principal Engineer
If this sounds like you then please click apply now