Senior PHP Backend Engineer – Scale Global Systems (Hybrid)

develop; Fareham; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Competitive benefits

Job summary

develop is seeking an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join our backend engineering team in Fareham. You will help modernise core systems, scale performance and deliver new features across high-traffic products.

You'll work in a cross-functional squad with backend, frontend and QA engineers, reporting to an Engineering Manager. The role offers hybrid work (4 days/week) and a competitive benefits package, including performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial PHP development experience.
• Strong MySQL experience and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ/Redis.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset and solid collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise PHP-based APIs and backend services.
• Work with AWS, Kubernetes, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Cassandra in a scalable stack.
• Collaborate with frontend, QA and product teams in a Kanban workflow.
• Contribute ideas to improve scalability, performance and reliability.
• Take ownership from concept through deployment; production releases daily.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

RabbitMQ

Redis

Communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

develop is seeking an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join our backend engineering team in Fareham. You will help modernise core systems, scale performance and deliver new features across high-traffic products.

You'll work in a cross-functional squad with backend, frontend and QA engineers, reporting to an Engineering Manager. The role offers hybrid work (4 days/week) and a competitive benefits package, including performance bonuses.