Full-Stack PHP/JS Engineer – Own Core Systems (Hybrid)

Rise Technical Recruitment; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Bank holidays

Pension

Social events

PMI

Job summary

Rise Technical Recruitment is seeking a Software Engineer (PHP & JavaScript) in Bristol on a hybrid basis. You will focus on backend-heavy features for internal systems powering operations, reporting and a B2B portal, while contributing to frontend work with Vue or React.

The role requires strong PHP experience in Symfony or Laravel, solid OOP and SOLID principles, and a track record of API design and testing.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with PHP in a modern framework such as Symfony or Laravel in an enterprise or business critical environment.
• Solid understanding of object oriented design, SOLID principles and how to structure systems for long term maintainability.
• Experience building and testing API driven backend systems, with unit and functional tests as a normal part of your work.
• Comfortable working with a modern JavaScript framework such as Vue or React as part of a full stack workflow.
• Happy working in a small, collaborative team where you take real ownership, communicate clearly and enjoy being close to the commercial side of the business.
• Nice to have experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases, Dockerised applications, AWS hosted environments and using AI tools to improve productivity or code quality.

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, SOLID compliant PHP using Symfony, with strong unit and functional test coverage as part of everyday development
• Contribute to and improve shared standards, code reviews, CI and deployment practices, including the growing use of AI tools in the workflow
• Work with business users across sales and operations to understand requirements, refine ideas and turn them into pragmatic, maintainable solutions
• Help evolve the platform and infrastructure, using technologies such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Vue.js, AWS and Docker

Skills

PHP

JavaScript

API design

SOLID principles

Unit testing

Tools

Symfony

Laravel

Vue

React

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS

Job description

Rise Technical Recruitment is seeking a Software Engineer (PHP & JavaScript) in Bristol on a hybrid basis. You will focus on backend-heavy features for internal systems powering operations, reporting and a B2B portal, while contributing to frontend work with Vue or React.

The role requires strong PHP experience in Symfony or Laravel, solid OOP and SOLID principles, and a track record of API design and testing.