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Software Engineer – PHP / Laravel – Mid-Level or Senior

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Software Engineer – PHP / Laravel – Mid-Level or Senior
A fantastic opportunity for a Software Engineer to join a growing tech-for-good company building software that makes a positive difference to people’s everyday lives. Working within a collaborative engineering team, you will work on varied technical challenges, from developing new functionality to connecting systems and improving performance. The company can consider applicants at mid-level through to senior, with responsibilities and technical ownership tailored to your experience.
Location: Near Ipswich, Suffolk – hybrid working with mandatory office attendance every Tuesday and Friday. These days are fixed, so applicants must be able to meet this working pattern.
Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 per annum, depending on experience.
Requirements for Software Engineer – PHP / Laravel – Mid-Level or Senior:
- Strong commercial experience developing applications using PHP and Laravel
- Experience working with modern frontend frameworks or libraries, ideally React
- Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL
- Good understanding of object-oriented programming, software design patterns and testing
- Experience using Git-based source control
- Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with colleagues
- Comfortable adapting to changing requirements within a fast-paced development environment
- For applicants seeking senior-level responsibility:
- Experience designing and delivering features or smaller software solutions
- Solving complex technical problems and supporting other developers
- Experience with message queues and event-driven architecture is beneficial
- Experience with caching, containerisation or deployment tooling is beneficial
- Applicants must have the right to work in the UK
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Responsibilities for Software Engineer – PHP / Laravel – Mid-Level or Senior:
- Develop and improve PHP and Laravel applications, APIs and supporting services
- Build user-facing functionality and the backend systems that support it
- Work with engineers, QA testers and wider stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable software
- Develop integrations that allow applications and external systems to work together
- Investigate technical issues and improve application security, performance and reliability
- Contribute to testing, code reviews, deployment and ongoing improvements
- Depending on your experience, take ownership of technical design for individual features and smaller solutions, contribute to wider design discussions and coach colleagues
What this role offers:
- The opportunity to work for a tech-for-good company, building useful software with a positive real-world impact
- Varied technical work across applications, APIs and integrations, with responsibility reflecting your experience
- A welcoming, collaborative team where developers share ideas and work together to solve problems


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