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Senior PHP / Laravel Developer

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Salary: £47,000 - 55,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Strong commercial PHP development experience
  • Hands-on Laravel experience
  • Experience with REST APIs, API integrations and third-party services
  • MySQL and relational database knowledge
  • Understanding of performance optimisation for applications and databases
  • Experience with PHPUnit and automated testing
  • Familiarity with Git/GitHub, clean code and modern software engineering practices
  • Experience with Vue.js, TypeScript and JavaScript
  • Understanding of software engineering principles including maintainability, testing, scalability, security and performance
  • Experience in a SaaS, product-led or software development environment would be particularly relevant
  • Experience with AWS, Docker and CI/CD is useful
  • Experience with Node.js, cloud-native development or AI-assisted development tools would also be useful
Responsibilities:
  • Design, build and improve scalable, secure SaaS applications using PHP and Laravel
  • Develop and integrate RESTful APIs, third-party services and backend functionality
  • Work extensively with MySQL and relational databases, including performance optimisation
  • Contribute to product functionality across Vue.js, JavaScript and TypeScript
  • Work closely with Product Owners, Designers and other Software Engineers to deliver features from requirements through development, testing and release
  • Write clean, maintainable and well-tested PHP code
  • Contribute to technical discussions around software architecture, application security, performance, scalability and engineering standards
Technologies:
  • AI
  • API
  • AWS
  • Backend
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • JavaScript
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • PHPUnit
  • REST
  • Security
  • TypeScript
  • Vue
  • NodeJS
  • DevOps
  • Frontend

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We are an established software engineering team working on a successful global SaaS platform used by organisations around the world. This is a permanent, full-time Senior PHP Developer role based in Northampton with a hybrid working model of two days per week in the office. We offer a competitive salary plus benefits and the opportunity to remain hands-on with PHP, Laravel, MySQL and REST API development while broadening experience across Vue.js, TypeScript, AWS, Docker and modern SaaS engineering.

last updated 39 week of 2026

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