Tate Recruitment
Senior PHP Developer
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Senior PHP Developer
Hybrid Working | Hertfordshire (2 days per week in office) | Permanent
We're working with an established software company looking to add a Senior PHP Developer to their engineering team.
You'll join a collaborative team of experienced developers, taking ownership of backend feature development, technical improvements, and complex problem solving across a large-scale web platform.
The role would suit someone who enjoys working with vanilla PHP, thrives in a hands-on environment, and can quickly get to grips with an established codebase whilst contributing new ideas and technical improvements.
The Role
You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining business critical web applications, delivering new features from concept through to deployment.
- Working closely with developers, testers, and support teams, you'll help shape technical solutions, reduce technical debt, and ensure the platform continues to scale effectively.
- This is a predominantly backend role, around 70/80% on the backend and 20/30% frontend.
Key responsibilities include:
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- Developing new platform features and enhancements
- Writing clean, scalable, and maintainable PHP code
- Owning technical solutions from design through to production
- Refactoring and improving existing functionality
- Designing and consuming APIs
- Performance tuning and database optimisation
- Contributing to code reviews and engineering best practices
- Supporting complex third line technical issues when required
- Collaborating with testers, developers, and business stakeholders
- Identifying opportunities to improve tooling, processes, and platform performance
About the Environment
This organisation has embraced an AI-first engineering culture, actively encouraging developers to use AI assisted tools to improve productivity, troubleshooting, documentation, and delivery.
- You'll have access to modern AI tooling and will be encouraged to contribute ideas around how AI can be used effectively across engineering teams, whilst maintaining high standards of code quality, security, and ownership.
- The development team operates with a high degree of autonomy, so this role is best suited to someone who is comfortable managing their own workload and working independently.
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What We're Looking For
- Strong commercial PHP development experience - full-stack with a backend focus
- Experience working with vanilla PHP (7 & 8) rather than solely framework-based development
- Strong backend development background
- Solid experience with MySQL or MariaDB
- Experience designing and consuming APIs
- Strong understanding of web application performance, scalability, and security
- Experience working with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Experience working with version control systems
- Ability to work independently and quickly become productive within an established environment
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Experience using AI assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar
Nice to Have
- Experience with Redis, Memcached, or similar caching technologies
- Exposure to infrastructure, server management, or DevOps practices
- Experience working with large, complex codebases
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