Senior PHP Developer in Watford, UK

Key Responsibilities:

• Create effective solutions (inc. software designs) from business requirements
• Produce well structured, testable code
• Apply best practices (industry and internal standards)
• Solution must be performant and observable in the context of a high complexity, high throughput systems via metrics and monitoring
• Balance technical solutions with commercial constraints
• Collaborate within and across teams
• Provide technical mentorship to less experienced members of the team
• Scope and estimate work
• Deliver within agreed upon timelines
• Deliver both as an individual contributor and through others
• Own the technical solutions end-to-end including in production
• Ability and willingness to adjust to technical change
• Contribute to the internal standards

Our Ideal Candidate Will Need:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in PHP

○ 3+ years in senior engineering or architect level role

○ Commercial use of a modern PHP development framework such as Symfony / Laravel Prefable

○ Writing automated unit/integration tests for solutions

○ Able to build/maintain CI/CD pipelines

○ Excellent practical experience of docker

○ Excellent experience of SCM branching strategies

○ Excellent practical understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns

○ Hands-on experience with one or more DevOps tooling platforms

○ Hands on experience engineering on high availability, high throughput OLTP platforms

• 10+ years database experience, ideally with MySQL

○ Good understanding of relational databases and MySQL and writing efficient database queries

○ Hands-on experience with a range of different data storage paradigms (e.g. RDMS + Document + KV Stores)

Join us, and we shall support you with benefits including:

• Competitive salary + annual bonus
• Breakfast & lunch prepared by our team chef (and the occasional treat thrown in!)
• Longevity bonuses, wellness incentive & company goal bonuses
• Option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays
• Free gym membership
• Free private healthcare for you and your family
• A free parking space for those that drive to the office, or a short 5 minute walk from Watford Junction train station
• 23 holiday days a year, with the option to buy / sell / rollover