Go Car Credit Limited
Software Engineer (PHP/Lavarel)
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About The Role
Go Car Credit is a specialist motor finance lender supporting those with less than perfect credit scores to get behind the wheel. Our hire purchase deals don’t just get people a great car – they give people the chance to rebuild their credit score too.
To support strategic growth, we’re looking to build out our in-house engineering team and are looking for a Mid-Level Software Engineer to support the next phase of platform growth and modernisation.
You will be joining the Business Change team during a time of major in-house technology buildout, where you will have real ownership and help to shape the future business critical platform!
Working hours are 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, however due to the level of the role we would expect some flexibility.
Responsibilities
- Working on a high-volume application platform primarily built in Laravel, contributing to new feature development, platform improvements, APIs, integrations, and ongoing modernisation work.
- Working closely with senior engineers and technical leadership to develop new functionality, maintain and modernise existing applications, and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of a business-critical platform.
- Developing and delivering new backend functionality using PHP and Laravel.
- Maintaining and improving the existing customer application platform.
- Supporting the ongoing migration and modernisation of legacy CakePHP components into Laravel.
- Balancing day-to-day BAU development with wider platform upgrade and improvement work.
- Designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.
- Working with MySQL and relational databases to build reliable, performant solutions.
- Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and participating in code reviews and contributing to improving engineering standards.
- Troubleshooting application issues and support production stability.
- Participating in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and reviews.
- Proactively identifying opportunities to improve code quality and platform performance.
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What you need
- Commercial software development experience using PHP.
- Good hands-on experience with Laravel.
- Strong understanding of PHP frameworks and modern development practices.
- Strong understanding of MySQL and relational databases.
- Experience building or consuming RESTful APIs.
- Good understanding of object-oriented programming and modern development practices.
- Experience using Git and working within collaborative development environments.
- An understanding of testing, code quality, and maintainable software.
- Proactive attitude with a willingness to take ownership and solve problems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
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In return we offer
- Competitive salary.
- Work-life balance – 37.5 hours per week, hybrid working from our Portsmouth or Warrington office with a level of flexibility that enables you to have a good work-life balance.
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and a day off for your birthday (FTE).
- Wellbeing support – market-leading EAP including 24/7 advice line, counselling for you and your immediate family, menopause support, and virtual GP appointments, paid leave when you need it most (company sick pay, time off for medical appointments, emergency dependent leave, compassionate leave, and fertility treatment leave).
- Financial support – financial coaching & support through our EAP, a discount platform access, car sharing scheme, discounted gym memberships, free flu vaccinations.
- Positive culture with a sociable atmosphere, casual dress code, food, and drinks provided in the offices at great business park locations.
We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to join our team at Go Car Credit. Just as our customers come from diverse backgrounds, so do we, and we treat our team and our customers as individuals – with respect and fairness. If this sounds like the role for you, please get in touch.
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