Fullstack Software Developer
Summary
A fullstack developer role in Bristol building business-critical web applications: PHP with a modern framework like Symfony or Laravel on the backend, plus a modern JavaScript framework such as Vue on the frontend, with an emphasis on API-driven systems, testing, and maintainable design.
Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong commercial experience with PHP in a modern framework such as Symfony or Laravel in an enterprise or business critical environment
- Solid understanding of object oriented design, SOLID principles, and how to structure systems for long term maintainability
- Experience building and testing API-driven backend systems, with unit and functional tests as a normal part of your work
- Comfortable working with a modern JavaScript framework such as Vue or React as part of a full stack workflow
- Happy working in a small, collaborative team where you take real ownership, communicate clearly, and enjoy being close to the commercial side of the business
- Nice to have experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases, Dockerised applications, AWS hosted environments, and using AI tools to improve productivity or code quality
- Design, build, and maintain backend-heavy features across internal systems that support operations, reporting, analytics, and the B2B portal
- Work closely with the Head of Development to shape solution design, architecture, and technical direction
- Write clean, testable, SOLID-compliant PHP using Symfony, with strong unit and functional test coverage as part of everyday development
- Contribute to and improve shared standards, code reviews, CI, and deployment practices, including the growing use of AI tools in the workflow
- Work with business users across sales and operations to understand requirements, refine ideas, and turn them into pragmatic, maintainable solutions
- Help evolve the platform and infrastructure, using technologies such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Vue.js, AWS, and Docker
- AI
- API
- AWS
- Backend
- ClickHouse
- Support
- JavaScript
- Laravel
- PHP
- PostgreSQL
- REST
- React
- Symfony
- Vue
- Cloud
- Docker
- Fullstack
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We are a small, profitable B2B luxury fashion distribution business based in Bristol, working in a hybrid setup with typically one day a week in the office and the rest remotely. We partner with global brands to turn problematic wholesale into a controlled, profitable channel. Our team is low ego, close knit, and made up of sales, operations, and IT, with in-house development treated as a strategic function rather than a support service. We offer a friendly, flexible, grown-up working environment, with benefits including 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, PMI, pension, and social events. This role gives you real ownership of business-critical software that sits at the heart of how we run and make money.
last updated 36 week of 2026