Full-Stack Engineer (PHP/WordPress) — Hybrid & Perks

AKA UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Telus Health EAP for you and family

Holiday Buy Back

Friends & Family Theatre Ticket

New Business Incentives

Recruitment Incentives

Pension Scheme

Interest Free Travel Loan

Ride to Work Scheme

Childcare Vouchers

Death in Service

Flexible/Hybrid Working

Critical Illness

Enhanced Parental Leave

Job summary

AKA is a global entertainment agency seeking a hands-on full-stack developer with a back-end bias to join the Digital department. You’ll ship websites, web apps and emails, collaborate with designers, and help maintain cloud Linux infrastructure.

The role offers growth towards seniority, opportunities to work across campaigns, and a hybrid working model with exposure to major cultural institutions worldwide.

Qualifications

• Solid object-oriented PHP (8.x) knowledge.
• Strong WordPress experience with custom themes and plugins.
• Experience with at least one MVC framework (Laravel or Symfony).
• Ability to consume and build REST APIs.
• Maintain Linux web servers (nginx/Apache, php-fpm, MySQL).
• Confident with HTML, modern CSS and JavaScript (ES6+).
• Git proficiency including branching and code review workflows.
• Comfortable using design assets from Figma.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy and maintain websites and web applications (front-end and back-end).
• Maintain and improve cloud Linux infrastructure.
• Support front-end developers with local environments and tooling.
• Keep CI/CD pipelines healthy and up to date.
• Collaborate with designers to validate feasibility of designs.
• Produce development estimates for back-end work.
• Build HTML marketing emails when required.
• Meet stakeholders to scope requirements and report progress.
• Train clients on built sites when needed.

Skills

PHP

WordPress

MVC framework

REST APIs

Linux servers

HTML/CSS/JS

Git

Figma assets

Tools

Docker

Vite

webpack

GitHub Actions

AWS

PHPUnit

Playwright

Job description

AKA is a global entertainment agency seeking a hands-on full-stack developer with a back-end bias to join the Digital department. You’ll ship websites, web apps and emails, collaborate with designers, and help maintain cloud Linux infrastructure.

The role offers growth towards seniority, opportunities to work across campaigns, and a hybrid working model with exposure to major cultural institutions worldwide.