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Senior PHP Developer | 6-Month Contract | Outside IR35
I’m currently recruiting for a Senior PHP Developer to join a dedicated Payments team on an initial 6-month contract.
💷 £375–£425 per day
📍 Fully remote – UK based
📄 Outside IR35
⏱️ 6-month contract
🚫 No sponsorship available
🎯 2-stage interview process
🔧 The Role
You’ll be working within a Payments team, building and improving the back-end systems that support areas including:
- Tax calculations & VAT processing
- Invoicing systems
- Financial data & transactional workflows
- Audit readiness and compliance
- High-load and distributed systems
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You’ll have genuine ownership across design, development and delivery, working closely with Product and Finance stakeholders.
💻 What we’re looking for
- 5+ years’ experience in back-end development
- Strong PHP experience — Node.js experience is also relevant
- Experience with high-load architecture & distributed systems
- Strong understanding of DDD & CQRS
- SOLID, TDD, CI/CD and Agile development practices
- Strong debugging, testing and performance optimisation skills
- Product-minded approach with strong ownership
- Experience using LLMs / AI coding assistants within development workflows
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🛠️ Tech Stack
- PHP 8.1+ | Symfony | Laravel | Yii2 | Doctrine | PHPUnit | MySQL | PostgreSQL | MongoDB | Redis | AWS | Kubernetes | Docker
- Experience with Git, GitLab/GitHub, Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus and modern AI-assisted development tools is also relevant.
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