Senior PHP/Laravel Engineer – Hybrid, Impact-Driven Tech

RedTech Recruitment Ltd.; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

RedTech Recruitment Ltd is partnering with a growing tech-for-good company near Ipswich to hire a Software Engineer on PHP/Laravel at mid-level or senior. Hybrid with mandatory office days on Tue and Fri.

You will develop PHP/Laravel applications, APIs and integrations, collaborating with engineers, QA and stakeholders, and taking on technical ownership suited to your experience. Applicants should have strong PHP/Laravel experience, exposure to React, MySQL, testing and Git.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing PHP/Laravel applications.
• Experience with frontend frameworks, ideally React.
• Proficiency in MySQL and relational databases.
• Excellent communication and collaborative teamwork.
• Experience with Git-based version control.
• Senior-level capability: design and deliver features and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve PHP and Laravel apps, APIs and services.
• Build user-facing features and supporting back-end systems.
• Translate requirements with QA and stakeholders into reliable software.
• Develop integrations with external systems.
• Improve security, performance and reliability of applications.
• Contribute to testing, code reviews, deployment and ongoing improvements.
• Own technical design for features and mentor colleagues as needed.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

React

MySQL

OOP & Patterns

Testing

Git

Communication

Technical ownership

Mentoring

Tools

Containerisation

Deployment tooling

Message queues

Job description

RedTech Recruitment Ltd is partnering with a growing tech-for-good company near Ipswich to hire a Software Engineer on PHP/Laravel at mid-level or senior. Hybrid with mandatory office days on Tue and Fri.

You will develop PHP/Laravel applications, APIs and integrations, collaborating with engineers, QA and stakeholders, and taking on technical ownership suited to your experience. Applicants should have strong PHP/Laravel experience, exposure to React, MySQL, testing and Git.