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Senior PHP Developer (R&D)

  • Location: Manchester
  • Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted almost 3 years ago

  • Sector: Tech & Software Development
  • Contact: Ben Greensmith
  • Contact Email: bengreensmith@betterplaced.com
  • Expiry Date: 13 June 2021
  • Job Ref: PHP/ R&D_1620972109

Senior PHP Developer (R&D)

Manchester City Centre (WFH, 2 days a month in the office)

£40,000-£45,000

I'm working with a Manchester based agency that specialises in delivering eCommerce solutions for well-known brands across the UK. Ecommerce is going through a golden age and they are looking to expand their team with two Senior PHP Developers.

They have a huge variety of greenfield projects coming up in an agile, best practice environment with an emphasis on culture and high standards. This Senior PHP developer will sit on the R&D team working on the company's own 'Integration Platform System as a Service'' software with the latest PHP and cloud technology.

Role and Responsibilities:

  • Helping to deliver a range of projects that will improve the company's bespoke integration platform software
  • Working with the team to bring and implement ideas across the platform
  • Maintaining the highest coding standards and agile practices
  • Mentoring juniors and helping to develop their careers
  • Finding the best technical solutions to complex problems

Skills and Experience:

  • Experience delivering full lifecycle PHP projects
  • Knowledge of MVC frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony
  • Experience of AWS - S3, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Cloudwatch and knowledge of software engineering patterns

Nice to have:

  • Technical understanding of automation testing
  • Experience with Asynchronous event driven architectures and functional programming

Benefits:

  • 32 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • Private Healthcare
  • Personal progression plans
  • Extensive list of social events

This role would suit an established senior or a mid-level PHP developer with a keen eye for the engineering side of development. The culture and scope of projects are second to none so, If you're a back-end PHP developer looking to take your career to the next level please apply with a latest copy of your CV.