Junior PHP Engineer

Lendable; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in London is seeking a Junior PHP Engineer to join their UK Loans team. The ideal candidate will have modern PHP development experience, particularly with PHP 8 and frameworks like Symfony. Responsibilities include building APIs and optimizing lending platforms. This role offers flexibility with remote work options and best-in-class compensation, including equity.

Benefits

Best-in-class compensation

Remote work options on Mondays and Fridays

Fully stocked kitchen

Private health insurance

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in PHP development.
• Experience with PHP 8.0+ required.
• Familiarity with automated testing (unit, integration, functional).

Responsibilities

• Build and integrate new APIs to enhance the customer journey.
• Optimize lending platforms and engage in architectural discussions.

Skills

Modern PHP development experience

Understanding of a modern PHP framework

Automated testing skills

Desire to learn and collaborate

Tools

PHP 8

Symfony

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About Lendable

Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper, and friendlier. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 600 people

• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

• Profitable since 2017

• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

• Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Join us if you want to

1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1

2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

About the role

We're looking for a Junior PHP Engineer to join our UK Loans team!

Our engineering organisation is home to over 160 talented engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and platform disciplines.

You'll have the opportunity to work on everything from building and integrating new APIs to enhance the customer journey, to optimising our lending platforms, and engaging in deep architectural discussions. There's plenty to tackle, and we're excited to find the right people to take on the challenge

Our Modern Tech Stack

We believe in using the right tools for the job, and our stack reflects our commitment to modern, efficient development:

• Backend: PHP 8, Symfony, AWS, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions and ArgoCD (we deploy to production as soon as a feature is complete!)

• Testing: Behat, PHPUnit for robust automated testing

What we’re looking for

Essential

• Ideally 2+ years experience

• Modern PHP development experience (PHP 8.0+ is a must)

• A good understanding of a modern PHP framework like Symfony or Laravel

• Automated testing skills (unit, integration, functional)

• A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team

• Must be based in London

Desirable

• Experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems or Event Sourcing

• Experience with microservices would be a plus

• If you’ve worked in a cross functional environment, it would be a plus but not needed

Interview process

We value your time and have designed an efficient process to get to know you:

1. A quick chat with one of our team to see if the role is a good match.

2. A practical take-home coding exercise for you to showcase your coding skills.

3. A technical interview to discuss your coding exercise and dive deeper into your skills.

4. A culture-add interview to assess how you'd thrive within our team and organisation.

Life at Lendable

• The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.

• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.

• You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas.

• Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.

• We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance

• We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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