Senior Laravel Architect & Tech Lead — Remote

ByteHire

United Kingdom

Remote

GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Full time

7 days ago
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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.

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