PHP SAAS (Contract)

We are a leading UK-based Events Management SaaS company seeking an experienced PHP Developer for a 3-month contract, potentially ongoing. This role is ideal for a skilled developer with a strong background in PHP. You will be working on optimising and streamlining our live platform, ensuring stability and performance improvements.

Role Info:

Current Tech Includes: PHP, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, Codeigniter 3

Methodologies: Agile/Kanban, TDD/BDD, Continuous integration and Delivery.

Who we are:

With an existing and highly satisfied customer base of very well-known large international blue chip enterprises, we are a secure and dynamically growing Software business with a 20-year history of stability and profit from offices in Farringdon, London. The next few years will be an exciting time for the company as we focus on investment led growth that will be targeting both our production and sales teams. Our client list includes the likes of Deutsche Bank, Santander, BNPP, Ford, Kia, Toyota, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Freshfields etc.

PHP Developer:

We are looking for a PHP Developer to join us on a 3-month contract, helping to optimise and streamline our live platform. While we have a talented development team, we need someone who can take a holistic view of our products, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and future-proof. Our products, both internal and customer-facing, are primarily built in PHP within a LAMP environment.

Although we are in the background building a more scalable, transferable tech stack, our immediate focus is on enhancing our current platform by introducing efficiencies, optimisations, and necessary code refactoring. Our systems process large amounts of data daily, requiring solutions that work across both small and large-scale clients.

In this role, you will work closely with our dev team to identify and implement improvements, ensuring our platform is stable, scalable, and meets business needs.

Requirements

What are the role requirements:

You will have experience with most of the following:

• 5 years of current, professional experience as a PHP Software Engineer.
• Experience with systems that process and handle large amounts of data.
• Analysing existing systems and increasing efficiencies.
• Experience with highly scalable database platforms and have delivered Enterprise distributed cloud applications.
• A good understanding of modern web security standards and methodologies.
• Experience in background processing, queuing, scheduling and multithreading.

Technical Experience:

• Language: PHP (7.4+), Javascript, HTML, CSS
• Frameworks: Any PHP framework such as Codeigniter, Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony 2 (or equivalent)
• Database and Datastores: MySQL 5.7
• Operating system: Linux (Ubuntu)

Bonus knowledge:

• Apache server, message queue architecture
• Experience with cloud services (AWS).
• Experience with JQuery and Bootstrap
• Experience with building continuous integration pipelines (Jenkins, Docker and Kurbernetes).

Benefits

Who we are as an organisation is not representative of where we plan on being in 2-3 years time. We are extremely ambitious and have created grandiose targets that will place us amongst the best in our peer group. Subsequently, career opportunities will exist along multiple route maps from people and leadership, products and expertise and project management. Which route you take is up to you and we are on hand to provide guidance and support. Join us to start the journey that is your career path.

We are an equal opportunities employer. You must be eligible to work in the UK and prepared to undergo high level security clearance

Salary: £200 - £300 (based on experience)

Location: Remote / Hybrid (Farringdon London)