Hybrid PHP Symfony Developer — Build Scalable APIs & Cloud

Pearson Carter; Colchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Profit share

Company pension

Health & wellbeing programme

Free on-site parking

Company events

Cycle to Work scheme

Sick pay

Ongoing training

Job summary

Pearson Carter are recruiting a PHP Developer for a market-leading travel organisation. You will develop backend apps with PHP/Symfony, build REST APIs, and work with AWS in a hybrid Colchester office setting (3 days in office, 2 days from home).

Ideal candidates have around 3 years’ PHP experience, strong Symfony skills, API design experience, and a collaborative, problem-solving mindset. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Qualifications

• 3 years’ PHP development experience in a commercial environment.
• Strong Symfony framework expertise.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs.
• Hands-on AWS cloud services experience.
• Experience with Linux and NGINX.
• Solid Git version control knowledge.
• Proficient in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Excellent problem-solving and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and enhance backend applications using PHP and Symfony.
• Design and develop REST APIs and microservices.
• Build scalable, secure, high-performing applications.
• Work with AWS services including EC2, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, CloudWatch and RDS.
• Collaborate with developers, stakeholders and business teams.
• Write clean, well-documented code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.
• Work in an Agile development environment to deliver projects on time.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and suggest improvements.

Skills

PHP

Symfony

REST APIs

AWS

Linux

Git

HTML/CSS/JS

Problem solving

Communication

Agile

Tools

NGINX

Webpack

Google Tag Manager

Job description

Pearson Carter are recruiting a PHP Developer for a market-leading travel organisation. You will develop backend apps with PHP/Symfony, build REST APIs, and work with AWS in a hybrid Colchester office setting (3 days in office, 2 days from home).

Ideal candidates have around 3 years’ PHP experience, strong Symfony skills, API design experience, and a collaborative, problem-solving mindset. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.