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Senior PHP Developer

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Senior PHP developer building and maintaining a SaaS platform with PHP/Symfony, React, MySQL/PostgreSQL on AWS, developing REST and GraphQL APIs and taking part in the full SDLC on long-term projects. Fully remote within the UK, low-management working style.

Salary: £20,000 - 32,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Extensive experience with modern PHP and Symfony
  • Full lifecycle experience, including building, maintaining, upgrading, and improving code over the long term
  • Strong foundational skills and use of SOLID design principles
  • Experience with AWS
  • Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • Experience with CI/CD
  • Experience with React or another modern JavaScript framework
  • Experience building APIs
  • Nice to have: NodeJS and TypeScript
  • Nice to have: Docker and Kubernetes
  • Nice to have: GraphQL
  • Nice to have: PHP unit testing
  • Full right to live and work in the UK
  • Must be based in the UK
Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain a SaaS platform using PHP, React, MySQL, and related technologies in an AWS environment
  • Develop APIs, including GraphQL and REST
  • Participate in the entire SDLC
  • Work on a few key long-term projects
  • Produce quality code independently without micromanaging
Technologies:
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
  • GraphQL
  • JavaScript
  • Kubernetes
  • MySQL
  • NodeJS
  • PHP
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST
  • React
  • Symfony
  • TypeScript
  • Cloud

More:

We are a UK-based software agency working on a few key long-term projects rather than a typical high-churn agency environment. The role is fully remote, with the salary up to £70k DOE, and includes 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays. We focus on giving you the space to do your best work, with no client-facing requirements and no micromanaging. This is a fully remote role open to candidates anywhere in the UK.

last updated 38 week of 2026

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