PHP Developer IT | Permanent Full-Time Basingstoke

Reassured Ltd; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced maternity leave

Medical cash plan

Virtual GP

Enhanced annual leave with length of service

Death in service (3x your basic salary)

Free parking

Referral scheme (up to £2,400 a year per referral)

Incentives, including annual trips abroad

Job summary

Reassured Ltd in Basingstoke is looking for an IT Systems Developer to work on internal CRM systems, enhancing and modernizing functionalities to support a growing business.

The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in PHP development, especially with PHP frameworks like CakePHP and Laravel. Collaboration within an Agile Scrum team is essential. This role offers a supportive environment to thrive and make a real impact.

Benefits include an Employee Assistance Programme, enhanced maternity leave, and annual trips abroad.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in PHP development.
• Strong understanding of MySQL including queries and performance.
• Experience with PHP 7.4 and PHP 8+.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining internal CRM and backend systems.
• Delivering features end to end, from design through to deployment.
• Collaborating with developers, QA, BA and DevOps.

Skills

PHP development

MySQL

Git

Docker

Unit testing

Tools

CakePHP

Laravel

Symfony

RabbitMQ

Azure Service Bus

Job description

About the role

We’re looking for a skilled and motivated IT Systems Developer to join our growing tech team at Reassured.

You’ll be working on our internal CRM systems, building new functionality and evolving existing features to support a fast-moving, high-growth business.

As part of a collaborative Scrum team, you’ll contribute to planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives while delivering clean, scalable software that has real impact across the organisation.

Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing

• Developing and maintaining internal CRM and backend systems
• Delivering features end to end, from design through to deployment
• Enhancing and modernising existing applications, including legacy systems
• Collaborating with developers, QA, BA and DevOps to meet business needs
• Writing clean, maintainable and well-structured code
• Supporting testing, CI/CD pipelines and code reviews
• Identifying improvements and helping to reduce technical debt
• Troubleshooting and resolving software issues

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years’ experience in PHP development
• Experience with PHP 7.4 (CakePHP) and PHP 8+ (Laravel or Symfony)
• Experience building and maintaining backend systems and APIs
• Strong understanding of MySQL, including queries, indexing and performance
• Experience using Git, including GitLab workflows, branching and pull requests
• Familiarity with Docker in WSL or Linux environments
• Experience with unit testing and automated testing approaches

Nice to have

• Vue.js or Nuxt and modern frontend tooling
• Tailwind or other modern CSS frameworks
• CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab pipelines
• Messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus
• Microservices or event-driven architectures

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have a strong technical mindset and attention to detail
• Understand security best practices such as OWASP and coding principles like SOLID
• Enjoy working collaboratively in an Agile team
• Are organised, analytical and solution-focused
• Are curious and motivated to keep learning and improving

At Reassured, we’re passionate about building smart, secure, and scalable systems that support our customers and our people. If you’re looking for a role where your work has real impact and you enjoy working in a supportive, fast-moving environment we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits include:

• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Medical cash plan
• Virtual GP
• Enhanced annual leave with length of service
• Death in service (3x your basic salary)
• Free parking
• Referral scheme (up to £2,400 a year per referral)
• Incentives, including annual trips abroad

If you’re a developer who enjoys building impactful systems, solving real-world problems and working in a fast-paced team we’d love to hear from you!