Full-Stack PHP/JS Engineer – Hybrid, Own Core Platform

LaraBench; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Bank holidays

Private Medical Insurance (PMI)

Pension

Social events

Job summary

LaraBench in Bristol is seeking a Software Engineer (PHP & JavaScript) to join a small, flexible development team. The role focuses on building internal systems powering operations, reporting, analytics and the B2B customer portal, with a strong backend emphasis and a modern JavaScript frontend.

The ideal candidate has PHP in Symfony/Laravel and JavaScript experience, and enjoys ownership in a close-knit, business-critical environment.

Qualifications

• Strong PHP in modern framework such as Symfony or Laravel.
• Solid object-oriented design and long-term maintainability.
• Experience building and testing API-driven backend systems with unit/functional tests.
• Comfortable with Vue or React in a full-stack workflow.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend-heavy features across internal systems.
• Shape solution design, architecture and technical direction with Head of Development.
• Write clean, SOLID PHP using Symfony; ensure test coverage.
• Contribute to shared standards, CI and deployment practices; explore AI tools in workflow.
• Collaborate with business users to refine requirements into pragmatic solutions.
• Evolve platform and infrastructure using PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Vue.js, AWS and Docker.

Skills

PHP

Symfony

Laravel

JavaScript

Vue

React

API development

Unit tests

CI/CD

Docker

PostgreSQL

Tools

Git

AWS

Docker

Job description

LaraBench in Bristol is seeking a Software Engineer (PHP & JavaScript) to join a small, flexible development team. The role focuses on building internal systems powering operations, reporting, analytics and the B2B customer portal, with a strong backend emphasis and a modern JavaScript frontend.

The ideal candidate has PHP in Symfony/Laravel and JavaScript experience, and enjoys ownership in a close-knit, business-critical environment.