PHP & Laravel Developer: Vue.js & Inertia Expert

LaraBench; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Social events

Job summary

Margetts Fund Management is seeking an experienced PHP/Laravel Developer to join the in‑house development team in Birmingham. You will contribute to a greenfield Laravel stack with Inertia.js and Vue.js, while supporting and iterating an established Laravel application.

Collaboration across developers, QA, analysts and stakeholders will shape secure, maintainable code and evolving engineering standards. You will work on API design, interfaces, and interface quality, ensuring robust solutions

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing web applications with modern PHP and Laravel.
• Practical experience with Vue.js; exposure to Inertia.js is an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of object‑oriented programming, MVC architecture and common software design principles.
• Experience with MySQL, relational data modelling, migrations and query optimisation.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Experience designing, consuming and securing RESTful APIs and system integrations.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorisation against identity providers (SSO, OIDC or SAML).
• Experience with Git, branching strategies, pull requests and collaborative code review.
• Ability to write and maintain automated tests using PHPUnit, Pest or equivalent tools.
• Strong debugging, problem‑solving and root‑cause analysis skills.
• Experience maintaining and improving legacy applications without disrupting business‑critical services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deliver maintainable features for a greenfield web application using PHP, Laravel, Inertia.js and Vue.js.
• Support, maintain and enhance an existing Laravel web application, including defect resolution, performance improvement and technical-debt reduction.
• Develop responsive, accessible interfaces for internal and external users.
• Design and integrate APIs and interfaces between internal systems, third-party services and relational databases.
• Write clean, secure, reusable and well-tested code in line with agreed standards.
• Investigate production issues, perform root‑cause analysis and implement reliable fixes.
• Participate in technical design, estimation, code reviews, testing and release activities.
• Work within a controlled release process, including peer review, approval gates and documented change control.
• Create and maintain concise technical documentation.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, business analysts and stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver effective solutions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of architecture, development practices, automation and application security.

Skills

PHP/Laravel

Vue.js

Inertia.js

MVC architecture

MySQL

JavaScript

RESTful APIs

SSO/OIDC/SAML

Git

PHPUnit/Pest

Testing

Legacy code management

Tools

Docker

Redis

CI/CD

Vite

Tailwind CSS

jQuery

Job description

Margetts Fund Management is seeking an experienced PHP/Laravel Developer to join the in‑house development team in Birmingham. You will contribute to a greenfield Laravel stack with Inertia.js and Vue.js, while supporting and iterating an established Laravel application.

Collaboration across developers, QA, analysts and stakeholders will shape secure, maintainable code and evolving engineering standards. You will work on API design, interfaces, and interface quality, ensuring robust solutions