Senior PHP Developer

Location: Fareham Hybrid (Onsite or minimum 3 days per week)

Salary: Up to £60,000 + benefits

We’re working with a well-established, award-winning technology business that’s scaling rapidly and building a suite of market-leading digital security products- trusted by millions of users worldwide.

As they continue to expand, they’re looking for an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join their backend engineering team. You’ll play a key role in modernising core systems, improving scalability, and supporting the delivery of new features across a range of high-traffic products.

The Role

You’ll join a collaborative, cross-functional team of backend, frontend and QA engineers, reporting to an Engineering Manager who has grown through the ranks internally. This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of impactful work in a fast-paced, large-scale environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, building and optimising PHP-based APIs and backend services.
• Helping to decouple a large PHP 7.4 monorepo into modern PHP 8.1+ services.
• Working with a stack including AWS, Kubernetes, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Cassandra.
• Collaborating closely with frontend, QA and product teams in a Kanban workflow.
• Contributing ideas to improve scalability, performance and reliability.
• Taking ownership from concept through to deployment- they deploy to production daily.

About You

To thrive in this role, you’ll bring a strong balance of hands-on coding expertise, initiative and problem-solving ability.

Essential experience:

• 4+ years’ commercial experience with PHP.
• Strong understanding of MySQL and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ and Redis.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus.
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset- “perfection is the enemy of success.”
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

You’ll enjoy working at pace, taking ownership of projects, and improving systems operating at global scale.

Why You’ll Want to Join

This business is known for its collaborative engineering culture and strong retention. Many of the senior engineers have been there for years, and the leadership team actively encourages mentorship, experimentation and continuous improvement.

You’ll be joining at an exciting time of growth, helping to shape the next phase of their platform evolution.

Package:

• Annual bonus
• 28 days’ holiday (+ length of service accrual & birthday off)
• BUPA health & dental cover
• Pension & death-in-service
• Gym and golf memberships
• Food allowance and local perks
• Free state of the art onsite gym, bar, barista, barbers and amazing (Interior designed) social spaces
• Team events and personal development support

Interview Process

• Stage 1: Video call / introductory screen
• Stage 2: Live coding exercise
• Stage 3: Face-to-face with Engineering Manager, VP and Principal Engineer

If this sounds like you then please click apply now!