SENIOR PHP FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Location: On-site – Wallsend, Tyne & Wear (Silverlink Business Park)
Salary: £50,000 – £60,000
Type: Full-time, Permanent
Are you an experienced PHP developer looking for an opportunity to take ownership of projects, solve challenging problems, and work with the latest Laravel-based technologies?
We’re seeking a hands-on Senior PHP Full Stack Developer to join our growing team and play a key role in shaping and evolving our modern, containerised platform. This is a high-impact role where you’ll work across backend and frontend layers, influence technical decisions, and help drive best practices.
You’ll collaborate with a small, skilled team, working with technologies from the Laravel and TALL stack—including Livewire, TailwindCSS, Docker, Redis, and AWS—while improving architecture, performance, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable, testable backend services in Laravel.
• Own service-layer logic, background processing, and third-party integrations.
• Improve queue job handling, error management, and traceability.
• Work with DevOps and QA to enhance CI/CD pipelines and testing processes.
• Optimise Docker-based environments and development workflows.
• Identify and resolve technical debt with clean, maintainable solutions.
• Collaborate on frontend improvements using Livewire, TailwindCSS, and Vite.
• Mentor others, maintain high code quality, and champion best practices.

Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience with modern PHP (8.0+) and Laravel (10+).
• Full stack expertise, including Blade, Livewire, Vite, and TailwindCSS.
• Database design & optimisation skills (MySQL preferred).
• Experience with Redis for caching and queues.
• Comfortable with containerised environments (Docker, docker-compose).
• Knowledge of background job processing and queue workflows.
• Version control and collaborative development using Git.
• Pragmatic approach to testing, ideally with PHPUnit and CI/CD exposure.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently.

Benefits

• Competitive salary (£50,000 – £60,000)
• Company pension
• Sick pay
• Medicash health scheme
• Opportunity to work on impactful projects with autonomy

Apply now to join a forward-thinking development team where you’ll have the freedom to make technical decisions, work on challenging projects, and see your work make a real impact.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension

Work Location: In perso

• Lead the design and development of scalable, testable backend services in Laravel.
• Own service-layer logic, background processing, and third-party integrations.
• Improve queue job handling, error management, and traceability.
• Work with DevOps and QA to enhance CI/CD pipelines and testing processes.
• Optimise Docker-based environments and development workflows.
• Identify and resolve technical debt with clean, maintainable solutions.
• Collaborate on frontend improvements using Livewire, TailwindCSS, and Vite.
• Mentor others, maintain high code quality, and champion best practices