Full-Stack PHP & JS Engineer — Core Systems (Hybrid)

ChiroCat; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Bank holidays

Pension

Private medical insurance

Social events

Job summary

ChiroCat in Bristol is seeking a Software Engineer (PHP & JavaScript) to join a small, flexible team. The role focuses on building internal systems that power operations, analytics and a B2B portal, with backend PHP (Symfony/Laravel) and modern JavaScript (Vue/React).

The team operates with a hybrid model (office one day a week in Bristol) and offers a competitive salary plus 28 days holiday, pension, PMI and social events.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with PHP in Symfony or Laravel in an enterprise or business critical environment.
• Solid understanding of object oriented design and SOLID principles.
• Experience building and testing API driven backend systems with unit and functional tests.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend heavy features across internal systems that support operations, reporting, analytics and the B2B portal.
• Work closely with the Head of Development to shape solution design, architecture and technical direction.
• Write clean, testable PHP using Symfony, with strong unit and functional test coverage as part of everyday development.
• Contribute to and improve CI and deployment practices, including growing use of AI tools in the workflow.
• Work with business users across sales and operations to understand requirements and translate them into pragmatic solutions.
• Help evolve the platform and infrastructure using PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Vue.js, AWS and Docker.

Skills

PHP

JavaScript

Symfony

Laravel

Vue.js

React

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

AWS

Docker

Job description

ChiroCat in Bristol is seeking a Software Engineer (PHP & JavaScript) to join a small, flexible team. The role focuses on building internal systems that power operations, analytics and a B2B portal, with backend PHP (Symfony/Laravel) and modern JavaScript (Vue/React).

The team operates with a hybrid model (office one day a week in Bristol) and offers a competitive salary plus 28 days holiday, pension, PMI and social events.