Senior PHP/Symfony Engineer - Legacy Refactor Expert

True9; Saltaire; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role

Remote flexibility

34 days off incl. holidays

Birthday off

Home office setup

£500 development budget

On-site parking

Team events

Culture and growth

Job summary

True9 is a Saltaire-based technology consultancy hiring a Senior Software Engineer (PHP/Symfony). You will write clean PHP (Symfony/Laravel), refactor legacy code, and own platform areas while guiding architectural decisions. You’ll join a collaborative team that values quality and long-term maintainability.

The role blends office time in Saltaire with remote work flexibility, and offers support for growth with a dev budget and ongoing learning opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with PHP, OOP and modern frameworks.
• Comfortable working with large or legacy systems.
• Strong focus on quality, testing and long-term maintainability.
• Autonomy, trust and thoughtful decision-making.
• Clear communication and valuing clarity over ego.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, maintainable PHP (primarily Symfony and Laravel).
• Refactor legacy codebases, improve boundaries and quality.
• Own areas of the platform and improve them incrementally.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and refactoring strategies.
• Improve developer experience through better tooling, tests and workflows.
• Collaborate with delivery and QA throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

PHP

Symfony

Laravel

OOP

Modern frameworks

Job description

True9 is a Saltaire-based technology consultancy hiring a Senior Software Engineer (PHP/Symfony). You will write clean PHP (Symfony/Laravel), refactor legacy code, and own platform areas while guiding architectural decisions. You’ll join a collaborative team that values quality and long-term maintainability.

The role blends office time in Saltaire with remote work flexibility, and offers support for growth with a dev budget and ongoing learning opportunities.