Senior Laravel Architect & Tech Lead — Remote

ByteHire; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work with occasional in-person

Job summary

ByteHire is recruiting a Principal PHP Software Engineer for a fully remote role with occasional in-person meetups every two months. You will lead the Laravel-based backend, shape architectural decisions, and mentor the engineering team.

You'll collaborate with directors, NHS stakeholders, and partners to deliver mission-critical features, drive automation, testing, and DevOps maturity across the platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of PHP experience with Laravel.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Hands-on problem solver who improves systems.
• Experience upgrading PHP codebases and modern practices.
• Strong SQL skills for MySQL/MSSQL and data modelling.
• Proven automated testing and QA experience.
• Comfortable with DevOps, AWS services, and basic networking.
• Excellent communication for external stakeholder meetings.

Responsibilities

• Lead Laravel backend projects end-to-end.
• Modernise legacy PHP frameworks and codebases.
• Introduce best practices and tooling.
• Mentor junior developers and grow the team.
• Embed automated testing, CI/CD, and code reviews.
• Report progress to leadership and NHS stakeholders.
• Ensure onboarding, stability, and security.
• Design and optimise MySQL databases for performance.
• Drive DevOps maturity and deployments automation.
• Collaborate on product direction with stakeholders.

Skills

Laravel PHP

Leadership

Problem solving

Codebase modernization

DevOps / AWS

Database design

CI/CD

Security & compliance

Tools

AWS

MySQL

MSSQL

Redis

Sentry

NewRelic

Job description

ByteHire is recruiting a Principal PHP Software Engineer for a fully remote role with occasional in-person meetups every two months. You will lead the Laravel-based backend, shape architectural decisions, and mentor the engineering team.

You'll collaborate with directors, NHS stakeholders, and partners to deliver mission-critical features, drive automation, testing, and DevOps maturity across the platform.