Staff PHP Engineer

Lendable Ltd; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Camden Town is seeking a Staff PHP Engineer to join their agile teams. In this role, you will develop new APIs, optimise lending platforms, and engage in architectural discussions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with PHP 8 and modern frameworks like Symfony or Laravel, as well as a strong interest in technology and collaboration. Competitive compensation and flexibility in work arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Best-in-class compensation, including equity

Work from home every Monday and Friday

Private health insurance coverage

Fully stocked kitchen in the office

Qualifications

• Experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems, and Event Sourcing is a plus.
• Worked in a cross-functional environment is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership across a broad remit to drive impact from day 1.
• Work in small teams to solve problems and find smarter solutions.
• Build the best technology in-house using new data sources and AI.

Skills

Strong modern PHP development experience (PHP 8.0+)

Understanding of a modern PHP framework like Symfony or Laravel

Experience with microservices

Strong automatic testing skills (unit, integration, functional)

Keen desire to learn and collaborate in a team

Tools

PHP 8

Symfony

AWS

MySQL

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins and Github Actions

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a Staff PHP Engineers to join our Zable Card, Autolend, Lendable Loans, and Internal Tools teams! Our engineering organisation is home to over 140 talented engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and platform disciplines. You'll have the opportunity to work on everything from building and integrating new APIs to enhance the customer journey, to optimising our lending platforms, and engaging in deep architectural discussions. There's plenty to tackle, and we're excited to find the right people to take on the challenge.

Tech Stack

• PHP 8
• Symfony
• AWS
• MySQL
• RabbitMQ
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins and Github Actions – we deploy to production as soon as we finish a feature
• Behat, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium and Detox for automated testing
• Strong, modern PHP development experience (PHP 8.0+ is a must)
• A good understanding of a modern PHP framework like Symfony or Laravel
• Any experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems and Event Sourcing would be a plus
• Experience with microservices would be a plus
• Strong automatic testing skills (unit, integration, functional)
• A keen desire to learn and provide input into a highly collaborative team
• If you've worked in a cross functional environment, it would be a plus but not needed

Mission & Culture

Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper, and friendlier. We're building one of the world's leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK's newest unicorns with a team of just over 600 people
• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK
• Profitable since 2017
• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs
• Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we've rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers' hands in minutes instead of days. We're growing fast, and there's a lot more to do: we're going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Responsibilities

1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1.
2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo.
3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting.

Interview process

• A quick phone call with one of the team
• A short coding exercise to complete in your own time
• Onsite or Video Interview – discuss the exercise you completed and meet the team you'll work with daily
• The opportunity to scale up one of the world's most successful fintech companies.
• Best‑in‑class compensation, including equity.
• Work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish – on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to build and exchange ideas.
• Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday‑Thursday.
• We care for our Lendies' well‑being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance.
• We're an equal‑opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London.
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