Senior PHP Developer: Lead Modernization & Scale (Remote)

Exchange My Car Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Exchange My Car Limited is seeking a Senior PHP Developer to lead modernization of our PHP architecture, including legacy CodeIgniter components, and to drive engineering excellence across the team.

You will collaborate with marketing, operations and leadership to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, mentor developers, and implement best practices with AI coding tools and CI/CD workflows.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional PHP development experience.
• Strong experience with modern PHP (PHP 8+)
• Experience with MVC frameworks such as CodeIgniter, Laravel, Symfony
• Hands-on with AI coding tools in daily workflow
• Modernising legacy systems
• Solid understanding of OOP and SOLID
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs
• Git and collaborative workflows
• Composer and dependency management
• Automated testing with PHPUnit
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices
• Performance optimisation and scalability improvements
• Project management or technical leadership experience
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies

Responsibilities

• Lead improvements to PHP architecture and codebase
• Introduce modern engineering practices, including AI tools
• Develop and modernise PHP applications including legacy components
• Plan and manage technical projects from scoping to delivery
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement features
• Write clean, well-documented code and debug complex issues
• Stay updated with emerging tech and best practices
• Contribute to architectural decisions and roadmap
• Mentor developers and raise engineering standards

Skills

PHP 8+

OOP & SOLID

RESTful APIs

Git & workflows

CI/CD

Design patterns

Performance optimization

Mentoring

Agile

Tools

CodeIgniter

Laravel

Symfony

JUnit/PHPUnit

Composer

Job description

Exchange My Car Limited is seeking a Senior PHP Developer to lead modernization of our PHP architecture, including legacy CodeIgniter components, and to drive engineering excellence across the team.

You will collaborate with marketing, operations and leadership to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, mentor developers, and implement best practices with AI coding tools and CI/CD workflows.