Job Description
PHP Developer (Laravel) | North Manchester (Hybrid - onsite initially)
£45,000 - £50,000
We're working with a long-established, financially backed business going through a period of modernisation across their product and engineering teams.
As part of that, they're looking to bring in a PHP Developer to support and improve their core platform with a real focus on cleaning up, modernising, and moving things forward.
The Opportunity
You'll be working across a core platform built in PHP (Laravel) and MySQL, helping to:
* Improve and modernise an existing codebase
* Introduce better engineering practices
* Support a move towards containerisation (Docker)
* Contribute to CI/CD improvements
* Work alongside the team as they gradually move towards cloud (AWS)
* The team are actively encouraging the use of AI tools (eg Claude) to improve development workflows.
We're looking for developers who:
* Are open to using AI to speed up delivery and problem solving
* Have started exploring how it can improve code quality or productivity
* Are generally curious and proactive about new tooling
What we're looking for:
* Strong experienc with PHP and Laravel
* Solid understanding of MySQL
* Comfortable working across Back End (with some Front End exposure - React nice to have)
* Experience or interest in:
o Docker/containerisation
o CI/CD pipelines
o improving code quality and structure
* Someone who enjoys making things better, not just maintaining
Logistics
* North Manchester
* Hybrid working (initial onsite presence during probation)
* Salary around £45-50k