Senior Software Engineer: Lead Features in Laravel/React

Stockford Recruitment; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-scaling digital product organization is seeking a Senior Developer to lead technical delivery and shape a modern SaaS platform. This role involves designing and deploying new features, mentoring engineers, and collaborating closely with product leadership. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience with PHP/Laravel and React, along with strong leadership skills. This position allows you to balance technical leadership with hands-on coding in a hybrid work environment located in Exeter.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with PHP / Laravel and React.
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript / TypeScript, RESTful APIs, and relational databases (MySQL).
• Hands-on experience with AWS, ideally including serverless tools.
• Previous leadership or mentorship experience within an engineering team.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with product.
• A product-focused mindset with an eye for simplicity, usability and user value.

Responsibilities

• Leading the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of new features.
• Owning a key product workstream, including technical architecture decisions.
• Partnering closely with product leadership to translate goals into scalable solutions.
• Writing clean, efficient code across PHP / Laravel APIs and a modern React front end.
• Mentoring mid-level and junior engineers through reviews and pairing.
• Promoting engineering best practices across CI / CD, testing, code quality, and documentation.
• Contributing to an open supportive engineering culture.

Skills

PHP / Laravel

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

RESTful APIs

MySQL

AWS serverless

Leadership

Mentorship

Communication skills

Job description

A fast-scaling digital product organization is seeking a Senior Developer to lead technical delivery and shape a modern SaaS platform. This role involves designing and deploying new features, mentoring engineers, and collaborating closely with product leadership. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience with PHP/Laravel and React, along with strong leadership skills. This position allows you to balance technical leadership with hands-on coding in a hybrid work environment located in Exeter.