PHP Developer

Full-Stack PHP Developer (Cybersecurity SaaS | Laravel | AWS | AI)

Location: Leeds City Centre (Hybrid, 3 days per week)

Salary: Up to £65,000 + Benefits

Type: Permanent

About the Role

We’re partnering with a fast-growing cybersecurity company building an enterprise-grade SaaS platform that helps businesses understand and protect their external attack surface.

They’re looking for a PHP Developer with strong back-end experience in Laravel and hands-on AWS skills — someone passionate about secure, scalable development and excited to contribute to a platform that’s increasingly leveraging AI and automation to stay ahead of cyber threats.

You’ll be joining a small, collaborative engineering team where your ideas matter, working across product, architecture, and security to evolve a platform used by some of the UK’s most security-mature organisations.

What You’ll Do

• Build and enhance platform features using PHP (Laravel), React, and TypeScript.
• Deploy, manage, and scale applications in AWS, using modern, cloud-native approaches.
• Collaborate on new AI-driven functionality — improving automation, intelligence, and user insight.
• Design, integrate, and maintain APIs and microservices.
• Optimise the platform for performance, scalability, and security.
• Work closely with product and security leads to translate business goals into technical solutions.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Strong back-end development experience with PHP (Laravel) and MySQL.
• Solid knowledge of AWS — including deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
• Understanding of secure coding principles and web application security.
• Comfortable working end-to-end across the stack in a small, fast-moving team.

Desirable:

• Professional experience in cybersecurity SaaS, threat intelligence, or vulnerability management.
• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies, particularly around data classification or automation.
• Experience with CI/CD, containerisation, and serverless architectures.
• Front-end experience with React and TypeScript.

Why Join

• Play a key role in scaling a next-generation cybersecurity SaaS platform.
• Work with modern technologies (Laravel, React, AWS, AI).
• Collaborative, tech-led culture where ideas turn into shipped features quickly.
• Hybrid working: 3 days per week in Leeds city centre.
• Salary up to £65,000 + benefits.

If you’re passionate about secure development and want to build software that makes a real impact in cybersecurity, get in touch to find out more.