Senior PHP Developer & Technical Lead (Laravel/CakePHP)

Reassured; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced maternity leave

Medical cash plan

Virtual GP

Enhanced annual leave with length of 1

Death in service (3x basic salary)

Free parking

Referral scheme (up to £2,400 a year)

Incentives, including annual trips

Job summary

Reassured in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced IT Senior Developer to join our growing tech team. You will own backend features for our internal CRM platform, shaping scalable systems in a fast-moving, regulated business.

In a collaborative Scrum setting, you’ll balance hands-on coding with technical leadership, drive architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers while delivering high-quality software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ PHP development experience.
• Strong PHP 7.4 (CakePHP) and PHP 8+ (Laravel or Symfony) expertise.
• Proven backend design and RESTful API experience.
• Deep MySQL knowledge: queries, optimisation, scaling.
• Docker experience on Linux or WSL.
• Git/GitLab workflows and branching strategies.
• Strong unit testing and automated testing experience; code reviews.
• Experience enforcing coding standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust, scalable backend systems using PHP (Laravel/CakePHP).
• Take ownership of features from concept through design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Improve and refactor legacy systems (CakePHP) while contributing to modernisation efforts.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code aligned with SOLID principles and best practices.
• Ensure high-quality delivery through code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support troubleshooting and resolving production issues, performing root cause analysis.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, including system design, integrations, and data modelling.
• Champion best practices across performance, security (OWASP), and scalability.
• Identify technical debt and lead initiatives to reduce it.
• Guide adoption of modern tooling, frameworks, and patterns.
• Mentoring and supporting junior and mid-level developers

Skills

PHP

Laravel/Symfony

REST APIs

MySQL

Docker

Git/GitLab

Unit testing

Code reviews

Job description

Reassured in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced IT Senior Developer to join our growing tech team. You will own backend features for our internal CRM platform, shaping scalable systems in a fast-moving, regulated business.

In a collaborative Scrum setting, you’ll balance hands-on coding with technical leadership, drive architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers while delivering high-quality software.