Mid-Level Developer

Unico Recruitment London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Unico Recruitment London is partnering with a well-established finance-sector organisation in Borehamwood to recruit a Mid-Level Full Stack Developer. This in-house role offers ownership of features across Laravel backend and Vue frontend, with a focus on stability and quality in production systems.

You will develop core platforms and reporting applications, build dashboards, and integrate third-party APIs, while advancing test coverage and build processes.

Qualifications

• Approximately 3-5 years of experience as a developer.
• Experience with PHP and Laravel 8+ including Eloquent, migrations, queues, events and Blade.
• Vue 3 experience including SFCs and Composition/Options API.
• MySQL experience with complex queries and performance.
• Experience consuming and debugging REST APIs and webhooks.
• Git and code review practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core business platforms and reporting apps across Laravel backend and Vue frontend.
• Own features from initial development to deployment.
• Deliver features and fixes across customer dashboards, documents and partner journeys.
• Build and maintain reporting dashboards in Vite/Vue, from data queries to charts and UI.
• Create and manage queue jobs, background reporting and PDF/Excel generation.
• Integrate third-party APIs and external services.
• Increase automated test coverage and improve frontend build.

Skills

3-5 years experience

Attention to live systems

Thorough verification before ship

Tools

PHP

Laravel 8+

Eloquent

Migrations

Queues

Events

Blade

Vue 3

Composition API

Options API

Single-file components

MySQL

Indexes

REST APIs

Webhooks

Git

Code review

Tailwind CSS

Shadcn

Reka UI

D3

ECharts

Chart.js

Vite

Webpack

Laravel Mix

Redis

AWS

Azure SQL

PHPUnit

Pest

Job description

Salary: £35,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements

• Approximately 3-5 years of experience as a developer
• PHP and Laravel 8+, including Eloquent, migrations, queues, events and Blade
• Vue 3, including single-file components, Composition or Options API, and component state
• MySQL, including experience writing non-trivial queries and understanding indexes and query performance
• Experience consuming, integrating and debugging third-party REST APIs and webhooks
• Git, branch-based development and code review
• Careful handling of live production systems and sensitive data
• A thorough, verify-before-you-ship approach to development
• Desirable: Tailwind CSS and component libraries such as shadcn or Reka UI
• Desirable: Data visualisation tools such as ECharts, Chart.js or D3
• Desirable: Vite or legacy webpack/Laravel Mix
• Desirable: Redis, AWS (S3, Cognito) or Azure SQL
• Desirable: PHPUnit or Pest, including experience writing and maintaining automated tests

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain our core business platforms and reporting applications across the Laravel backend and Vue front end
• Own features from initial development through to deployment
• Deliver features, enhancements and fixes across core business workflows, customer-facing dashboards, document generation and partner journeys
• Develop reporting dashboards in our Vite/Vue reporting application, from data queries through to charts, tables and user-facing functionality
• Build and maintain queue jobs, background reporting processes, and PDF and Excel generation
• Work with third-party integrations and external APIs
• Help increase automated test coverage and improve the front-end build
• Work closely with colleagues and the people who use our systems day to day
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of our mature, business-critical codebase

Technologies

• API
• AWS
• Azure
• Backend
• CSS
• D3
• Excel
• Git
• Laravel
• MySQL
• PHP
• PHPUnit
• REST
• Redis
• SQL
• Vue
• Webpack
• UX UI Design
• Cloud
• Support
• JavaScript

More

We are partnering with a highly successful, well-established finance-sector organisation based in Borehamwood. Following continued year-on-year growth, the organisation is seeking a Mid-Level Full Stack Developer for its small, collaborative in-house technology team. This office-based role offers the opportunity to take ownership of work and contribute to the continued development of business-critical platforms supporting customer and partner journeys, administration processes, reporting and internal dashboards.