Job Description
PHP / SQL Web Developer – Graduate
Cambridge | Global travel | Hybrid / early-career
The company
A world-leading FinTech whose trading-infrastructure powers the biggest banks and hedge-funds worldwide. With engineering hubs in Cambridge, London, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong and Singapore, they combine start-up pace with global scale and are now hiring the next wave of graduate talent.
What you will get
* Continuous technical training and fully funded certifications
* Global travel to any of 10+ international offices
* Clear promotion targets, anytime pay reviews and bonus scheme
* Hands-on mentoring from senior PHP & cloud engineers
* Competitive salary and complete benefits package
What you will do
* Build and refactor PHP 8 / MySQL tooling for 100 GB-scale market-data systems
* Design secure REST / micro-service APIs in Laravel, Symfony or similar
* Containerise services in Docker and contribute to CI/CD pipelines
* Deploy features on-site in London, New York, Hong Kong and beyond
* Work inside a fast-moving Agile squad and ship green-field projects
What you will need
* Recent degree (or final-year) in Computer Science, Maths or related field
* industry / placement experience in web back-end development or
* Solid experience with PHP in a University project
* Proven projects with PHP + MySQL; comfortable with large data sets
* Working knowledge of another back-end language (Node, Python, etc.)
* Understanding of OOP, API design, testing and web-app security
* Self-starter mindset and a genuine desire to travel
Find out more
For a confidential chat, contact Con Lam at Harrington Starr on 07367 446 935 or click the apply button below.