Salary: £37,000 - 65,000 per year Requirements: Practical experience with PHP (commercial, freelance, placement, or strong portfolio) Experience working with APIs (REST/JSON) and handling real-world issues (errors, timeouts, rate limits) Experience with background processing: scheduled jobs/cron and job queues/queue workers (e.g., Redis-backed queues) Comfortable using Git (basic branching/PRs) Comfortable with SQL (MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres) Laravel/Symfony experience (or similar frameworks) - Nice to have Experience designing reliable webhook handling (duplicates/idempotency) and retries - Nice to have Docker/Linux basics (e.g., running workers, Supervisor/systemd) - Nice to have Any exposure to Swift / iOS development (or strong willingness to learn) - Nice to have Responsibilities: Develop and maintain internal systems and services in PHP Build and maintain APIs used by our website, internal tools, and apps Integrate with third-party platforms via REST APIs, webhooks and common authentication methods (API keys/OAuth where applicable) Build, monitor and maintain background tasks (cron/schedulers) and job queues/queue workers that power the RMA/Portal Work with SQL databases to store and retrieve operational data Contribute to ongoing improvements and relaunch work on our website Troubleshoot issues and improve reliability with logging, documentation and sensible testing Support Swift-based app functionality that consumes our APIs (where applicable) Technologies: API Docker Git Support JSON Laravel Linux MariaDB MySQL OAuth PHP REST Redis SQL Swift Symfony iOS GitHub More: We are Mac Group Solutions, part of the Mac Group of companies, located in Nantwich. We are a rapidly growing business focused on second-life tech, predominantly Apple, and expanding across the UK and Europe. We offer a competitive salary, full-time permanent contract, company pension, employee discount, and on-site parking. Our ideal candidate would work closely with our team while also having the flexibility of a hybrid working arrangement for the right candidate. last updated 8 week of 2026