Senior PHP Developer (Hybrid 3 days in the office - Permanent)

My client is searching for an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join their expanding technology organisation. You will be working in an agile environment and will be a key member of a small technically focused team, with a high level of ownership of your product area. The client encourages innovation, from feature planning to implementation and deployment. Their aim is to become a best-in-class software company, and they need a Senior Developer like you who has a collaborative approach to problem solving and can deliver high quality products. You will develop clean, tested and scalable code using best practices and our company’s established standards.

We are searching for a candidate who is committed to learning and developing their already experienced skillset. There will be plenty of opportunities to take on new responsibilities as we continue to grow.

At this company you can expect a supportive and hard-working environment with a strong sense of teamwork and camaraderie.

Key Responsibilities:

- Create effective solutions (inc. software designs) from business requirements

- Produce well structured, testable code

- Apply best practices (industry and internal standards)

- Solution must be performant and observable in the context of a high complexity, high throughput systems via metrics and monitoring

- Balance technical solutions with commercial constraints

- Collaborate within and across teams

- Provide technical mentorship to less experienced members of the team

- Scope and estimate work

- Deliver within agreed upon timelines

- Deliver both as an individual contributor and through others

- Own the technical solutions end-to-end including in production

- Ability and willingness to adjust to technical change

- Contribute to the internal standards

Our Ideal Candidate Will Need:

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in PHP

- 3+ years in senior engineering or architect level role

- Commercial use of a modern PHP development framework such as Laravel / Symfony desired

- Writing automated unit/integration tests for solutions

- Ability to build/maintain CI/CD pipelines

- Excellent practical experience of docker

- Excellent experience of SCM branching strategies

- Excellent practical understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns

- Hands-on experience with one or more DevOps tooling platforms

- Hands on experience engineering on high availability, high throughput OLTP platforms

- 10+ years database experience, ideally with MySQL

- Good understanding of relational databases and MySQL and writing efficient database queries

- Hands-on experience with a range of different data storage paradigms (e.g. RDMS + Document + KV Stores)

What we can offer you:

The client I am working for promotes a highly collaborative atmosphere. They are a medium-sized company with a start-up culture, cultivating a committed and high standards work environment throughout all levels of our organisation. They believe that every employee forms an integral part of their organisation and they seek to empower their team to deliver the best results alongside their career and development goals.

Join us, and they shall support you with benefits including:

- Competitive salary + annual bonus

- Breakfast & lunch prepared by our team chef (and the occasional treat thrown in!)

- Longevity bonuses, wellness incentive & company goal bonuses

- Option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays

- Free gym membership

- Free private healthcare for you and your family

- A free parking space for those that drive to the office, or a short 5 minute walk from Watford Junction train station

- 23 holiday days a year, with the option to buy / sell / rollover

If this opportunity sounds like a role you would thrive in, get in touch