PHP Developer

The Citation Group; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Birthday leave

Healthcare discount

Gym membership discount

Pension contribution

Remote-first work style

Job summary

The Citation Group in Bracknell is seeking a software engineer to design and develop reliable, scalable PHP applications, with a strong focus on modern AI-assisted development workflows. You will collaborate across teams to deliver production-ready features in an AI-enabled environment.

Join a remote-first company committed to continuous learning, leveraging tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude while working with Laravel, RESTful APIs, and AWS.

Qualifications

• Experience as a software engineer working on production applications.
• Familiarity with building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Experience with cloud services and modern deployment practices.
• Exposure to AI developer tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop reliable, scalable PHP applications with a strong focus on AI-assisted development workflows.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.
• Collaborate with the team to adopt AI development practices and integrate them into engineering work.
• Contribute to refactoring and maintaining legacy PHP code bases with AI-supported approaches.
• Deploy production code via CI/CD pipelines (Terraform, GitHub Actions) and monitor performance.
• Work with engineers, UX designers and product teams to deliver high-quality features efficiently.
• Take ownership of code, write clean, well-tested solutions, and continually improve development practices.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

AWS

AI tools

Cloud services

Secure coding

Unit testing

GitHub Copilot

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

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