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Senior Full Stack Engineer (PHP/Laravel)
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Senior Full Stack Engineer (PHP/Laravel)
Senior PHP/Laravel Engineer (Agentic & Production Focus)
You're a strong PHP/Laravel engineer who uses agentic tooling seriously—treating it as a way to move faster and deliver better work without needing every problem defined for you. You’re not here to own the roadmap, but you want to tackle meaningful engineering challenges.
The Role
You’ll be embedded in the product team of one of the UK’s leading procurement platforms for construction projects. This platform connects organisations managing construction projects with the suppliers delivering them—high-traffic, mission-critical work that demands robust and scalable engineering.
The stack is built on PHP/Laravel, and this is not maintenance work. You’ll be on the front lines of feature delivery, scale challenges, and active engineering on a system used by thousands.
About the Platform
This isn’t just another Laravel setup—it’s a live, evolving product where PHP/Laravel is the core foundation. Every layer of the stack offers challenges and opportunities to ship real-world features at real scale, in a production environment.
*What You’ll Do
Key responsibilities include:
- Full Stack Leadership: Work at Senior Full Stack level in a commercial, production PHP/Laravel environment.
- Agentic Engineering: Use agentic tools daily—not as ad-hoc shortcuts, but as core enablers of faster, higher-quality delivery.
- Cloud-Native Solutions: Leverage AWS to build scalable, cloud-native APIs.
- Front-End Capability: Collaborate with React.js or Laravel Nova when needed.
- Feature Ownership: Ship real features—no petty maintenance; the work demands sophisticated engineering solutions.
- System Design: Contribute to architecture decisions—not just execution.
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What You Need
To thrive in this role, you must:
- Have expertise in Senior Full Stack PHP/Laravel with a focus on production environments.
- Prove you’ve used agentic tools in real production systems—not just personal experiments.
- Have hands-on experience with AWS, designing scalable APIs at scale.
- Possess enough frontend range to work with React.js and Laravel Nova seamlessly.
- Want autonomy over critical engineering problems, working with teams to solve them in meaningful ways.
Why Join Us?
- Impact: Work on a live platform with real scale, engineering features that matter to thousands.
- Learning Environment: Mix with engineers who prioritise craftsmanship—your input shapes processes, not just outputs.
- Agentic Engineering as Standard: Not a buzzword—this is how we build and ship every day. Your experience here will be industry-leading and transferable.
- Variety: Exposure to multiple clients and contexts, avoiding operational stagnation.
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Of course, the work itself isn’t the only reward:
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
- 5 Impact Days (unstructured time for learning, innovation, or volunteering)
- Flexible working (remote, office, or hybrid based within 30 miles of one of these locations: Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, London)
- Enhanced parental leave
- Annual wellbeing budget + 2 dedicated wellbeing days
- Mental health support
- Company Mac
Sound Like You?
If you align with this vision—excelling in PHP/Laravel, embracing agentic tooling, and delivering high-impact engineering work—then apply below. We’d love to discuss how your skills match up to this opportunity.
Embedded across procurement technology, construction_data, and active engineering—this is an engineer’s challenge, waiting for your touch.
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