PHP Laravel Developer
*Manchester / Flexible / Hybrid
*Salary/Rate: £40,000 - £50,000/annum
Core skill req: Laravel, Vue, AWS, PHP
We’re hiring a Senior Laravel Developer for a UK financial services business building and scaling revenue-critical products. This is not a legacy tidy-up. You’ll be hands-on, trusted to make decisions, and expected to deliver software that holds up under pressure.
You’ll own Laravel development across several live platforms, designing APIs and backend services that scale properly as usage grows.
You’ll work closely with technical leadership on architecture and roadmap decisions, taking responsibility for databases and performance. You’ll collaborate with frontend engineers and designers to ship featurese, while keeping security, stability, and scalability front of mind.
You’ll also help improve hosting and infrastructure across AWS and existing environments, review code, raise standards, and influence how the team builds software day to day.
What you’ll be doing
*Development across Laravel based systems
*Designing and evolving APIs
*Working closely with senior engineers and stakeholders on technical direction
*Collaborating with developers to deliver clean, usable features
*Keeping security, scalability, and stability front of mind
What we’re looking for
*Strong commercial experience with PHP and Laravel, Vue and AWS
*Solid understanding of APIs and backend architecture
*Comfortable working across the full delivery lifecycle
*A practical grasp of frontend
*Experience working in cloud AWS environments
*Familiarity with modern development workflows and version control
*Good technical judgement and a focus on quality