Senior Software Developer

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

onsiteseniorfull-time# Senior Software DeveloperHamilton Jones ConsultingChester GBP 55000-55000 per yearlaravelphpapiawsdescription## Job descriptionChrome desktop can translate this description on-device without sending the text to LaraBench.We are recruiting a Senior Software Developer for an established, growing business. This is a hands-on development role with a broader remit than a typical senior developer position, combining business-critical application development with improvements to how software changes are planned, reviewed, secured and released. You will join a small, capable software team and report to the Director of IT in a collaborative, pragmatic environment with considerable scope to influence development standards as the team and technology estate grow. The role is split approximately across 50% hands-on development, 30% delivery, change control and governance, and 20% secure development. The working environment has minimal bureaucracy and values straightforward communication, reliable engineering and solutions that work effectively for operational users. We offer a salary from £55,000 per year and benefits including casual dress, company events, company pension, discounted or free food, employee discount, free parking, on-site parking and work from home. The position is hybrid remote in Chester.### Requirements- Strong commercial Laravel and PHP development experience- Experience supporting applications relied upon by users in a live operational environment- Demonstrable ownership of change control, release management or software-delivery processes- Practical application-security knowledge, including secure code review, dependency management and secrets hygiene- Confidence using Git, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-hosted deployment environments- AWS experience, ideally- The ability to manage parallel workstreams and communicate progress honestly- Clear written and verbal communication skills- Sound judgement when balancing immediate operational requirements against longer-term technical considerations- Experience using AI-assisted coding tools- iOS development experience using Swift or SwiftUI- App Store release experience- A recognised security, development or delivery qualification- Experience within a multi-site operating environment- Experience introducing greater structure and consistency into a growing development team- Software development: 3 years- Ability to commute/relocate to Chester, Cheshire or plan to relocate before starting work- Work authorisation in the United Kingdom### Responsibilities- Build, improve and maintain 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