Mid-Level PHP/Laravel Dev — Vue 3 Real-Time, Flexible Hours

Crown Oil; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Crown Oil is seeking a Mid-Level PHP/Laravel Developer to join in-house at the Bury team. You will build and maintain critical business applications using PHP 8.5, Laravel, Vue 3, TypeScript and GraphQL, with real ownership and flexible hours.

You will work across our group of companies, handling backend services, SPAs, tests, and CI/CD pipelines in a collaborative environment, including Docker, Soketi/WebSockets, and Microsoft Graph integrations.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with PHP, Laravel.
• Proficient in Vue 3, Composition API and SPAs.
• Solid MySQL experience and performance tuning.
• Experience writing PHPUnit tests using TDD.
• Hands-on with Docker and CI/CD workflows.
• Familiar with real-time features (WebSockets).
• Experience integrating GraphQL APIs.
• Exposure to agentic AI tools in development.
• Some proficiency with C# / .NET is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services and features using PHP and Laravel.
• Develop SPAs with Vue 3 Composition API.
• Work with TypeScript and GraphQL APIs.
• Write feature tests with PHPUnit and TDD.
• Optimize MySQL queries and overall performance.
• Use Docker and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
• Develop real-time functionality with Soketi/WebSockets.
• Integrate Microsoft Graph and other services.
• Collaborate in code reviews and team discussions.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

Vue 3

TypeScript

GraphQL

MySQL

Docker

CI/CD

WebSockets

PHPUnit

TDD

Code reviews

Tools

Laravel

Vue 3

TypeScript

GraphQL

Docker

GitHub Actions

WebSockets

Pusher

Claude Code

Job description

Crown Oil is seeking a Mid-Level PHP/Laravel Developer to join in-house at the Bury team. You will build and maintain critical business applications using PHP 8.5, Laravel, Vue 3, TypeScript and GraphQL, with real ownership and flexible hours.

You will work across our group of companies, handling backend services, SPAs, tests, and CI/CD pipelines in a collaborative environment, including Docker, Soketi/WebSockets, and Microsoft Graph integrations.