Senior PHP/Laravel Engineer — Remote, Cloud & APIs

LaraBench; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

LaraBench is a fast-growing technology business delivering scalable digital platforms. The Senior Developer role focuses on back-end work with PHP/Laravel, APIs, AWS, and Vue.js in a remote-first UK environment.

You will design, develop, and maintain scalable PHP/Laravel applications, build APIs, collaborate with engineering teams, and drive performance improvements on a modern cloud-based platform.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with PHP and Laravel development.
• Experience building and integrating third-party APIs.
• Knowledge of relational databases and web services.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable PHP and Laravel applications.
• Building and extending APIs and third-party integrations.
• Collaborating closely with engineering teams across the wider platform.
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following best practices.
• Supporting ongoing platform optimisation, reliability, and performance.
• Contributing to new feature development across a modern cloud-based platform.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

Vue.js

APIs

AWS

Job description

LaraBench is a fast-growing technology business delivering scalable digital platforms. The Senior Developer role focuses on back-end work with PHP/Laravel, APIs, AWS, and Vue.js in a remote-first UK environment.

You will design, develop, and maintain scalable PHP/Laravel applications, build APIs, collaborate with engineering teams, and drive performance improvements on a modern cloud-based platform.