Senior Laravel Engineer — Hybrid-Remote

LaraBench; Independence (KS); Hybrid; USD 66,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Casual dress

Company events

Company pension

Discounted or free food

Employee discount

Free parking

On-site parking

Work from home

Job summary

Hamilton Jones Consulting is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join a capable software team in Chester. This hands-on role balances development, change control, and secure delivery with governance, aiming to improve how software changes are planned, reviewed and released.

The position emphasizes 50% hands-on development, 30% delivery/change control/governance, and 20% secure development in a hybrid remote setup in Chester. A strong focus on secure coding, CI/CD, Git, and AWS is expected.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Laravel and PHP development experience.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve Laravel applications used across the business.
• Work with PHP, Laravel, MySQL, REST APIs and AWS services.
• Contribute to mobile development where your experience allows.
• Deliver reliable, maintainable and well-documented solutions.
• Develop and improve change control and release processes.
• Maintain clear records of what has been released, why it changed and how it can be rolled back.
• Use code reviews as an effective quality control process.
• Improve branching, deployment and environment-management practices.
• Help ensure releases are controlled, predictable and production-safe.
• Coordinate several products and workstreams simultaneously.
• Identify blockers, risks and potential delays at an early stage.
• Translate requests from operational and commercial teams into clearly scoped and sequenced development work.
• Provide straightforward progress updates to non-technical stakeholders.
• Maintain documentation so that work can be understood and continued by others.
• Establish practical secure-coding standards, checklists and review criteria.
• Introduce appropriate dependency scanning, static analysis, secrets management and pipeline controls.
• Support proportionate threat modelling for new development.
• Coordinate vulnerability assessment and remediation.
• Work closely with the wider IT and cyber security function.
• Help the development team adopt security standards as part of its everyday work.

Skills

Laravel

PHP

AWS

CI/CD

Git

REST APIs

MySQL

Security

Education

Security/Delivery qualification

Tools

Laravel

PHP

MySQL

REST APIs

AWS

Job description

Hamilton Jones Consulting is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join a capable software team in Chester. This hands-on role balances development, change control, and secure delivery with governance, aiming to improve how software changes are planned, reviewed and released.

The position emphasizes 50% hands-on development, 30% delivery/change control/governance, and 20% secure development in a hybrid remote setup in Chester. A strong focus on secure coding, CI/CD, Git, and AWS is expected.