PHP Laravel Developer

Salary: £40,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements

• At least 2 years commercial Laravel experience
• At least 5 years working with modern backend frameworks
• Strong SQL knowledge, including indexes and database design
• Experience working with large datasets or high-volume applications
• Experience integrating third-party APIs such as Stripe, Google, AWS, OpenAI or similar
• Good understanding of backend concepts including caching, queues and asynchronous processing
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Modernise our Laravel platform
• Build scalable backend services and APIs
• Optimise SQL queries across large datasets
• Design efficient database structures and indexes
• Build AI-powered background services and internal tooling
• Integrate with services such as Stripe, AWS, Google and OpenAI
• Improve caching, queues and asynchronous processing
• Develop internal applications that support teams across the business
• Improve application performance, reliability and scalability
• Contribute to our ongoing AWS migration

Technologies

• AI
• AWS
• Backend
• Cloud
• Support
• Laravel
• SQL
• Docker
• MariaDB
• MySQL
• PHP
• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• Vue

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We are a small, fast-growing engineering team building one of the UKs largest online marketplaces in its field. Our platform processes millions of customer interactions, large volumes of data, real-time events, payments, AI-powered background services and high-throughput messaging systems. We are remote first, with the flexibility to work where you are most productive, and we ask everyone to join us in our Chester office approximately once a month for planning, collaboration and team days. We offer a salary of £40,000–£65,000 depending on experience, a performance bonus scheme, private medical insurance, a contributory pension, flexible working, monthly team meetups in Chester, casual dress, team away days, ongoing learning and development, exposure to modern cloud, AI and backend technologies, and genuine career progression as our engineering team grows.

last updated 28 week of 2026