Senior Software Engineer | PHP, Laravel/Symfony, AWS | Hybrid Location: Antrim (Hybrid) Type: Permanent About the Opportunity: This role sits within a product-led engineering team building and scaling a high-performance platform operating at real-world scale. The environment is fast-paced, collaborative, and focused on delivering reliable, user-facing systems. You will play a key role in backend development, contributing to architecture, performance, and long-term platform scalability. What Youll Be Doing: Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems using PHP Develop and evolve RESTful APIs and core platform services Contribute to system architecture and technical decision-making Optimise performance, scalability, and reliability of applications Collaborate with frontend and product teams to deliver new features Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code Participate in code reviews and promote engineering best practices Mentor junior engineers and support team development What Youll Bring: 5 years commercial experience with PHP Strong experience with modern frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony Solid understanding of API design and microservices architecture Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL Familiarity with cloud environments, ideally AWS Strong understanding of software design patterns and best practices Experience working in Agile environments Nice to Have: Experience working on high-traffic or transaction-heavy platforms Familiarity with Docker or Kubernetes Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices Why Join: Opportunity to work on a high-scale, user-focused platform Strong engineering culture with real ownership and autonomy Collaborative, product-driven environment Influence over technical direction and architecture Competitive salary and benefits package If you're interested or have any further questions on the role, please feel free to reach out to Eve Geddis directly on LinkedIn. Skills: PHP Development RESTful API's Laravel Mysql PostgreSQL AWS