Senior Software Engineer | PHP, Laravel/Symfony, AWS | Hybrid
Location: Antrim (Hybrid)
Type: Permanent
About the Opportunity:
This role sits within a product-led engineering team building and scaling a high-performance platform operating at real-world scale. The environment is fast-paced, collaborative, and focused on delivering reliable, user-facing systems.
You will play a key role in backend development, contributing to architecture, performance, and long-term platform scalability.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems using PHP
- Develop and evolve RESTful APIs and core platform services
- Contribute to system architecture and technical decision-making
- Optimise performance, scalability, and reliability of applications
- Collaborate with frontend and product teams to deliver new features
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Participate in code reviews and promote engineering best practices
- Mentor junior engineers and support team development
What You’ll Bring:
- 5+ years commercial experience with PHP
- Strong experience with modern frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony
- Solid understanding of API design and microservices architecture
- Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with cloud environments, ideally AWS
- Strong understanding of software design patterns and best practices
- Experience working in Agile environments
Nice to Have:
- Experience working on high-traffic or transaction-heavy platforms
- Familiarity with Docker or Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
Why Join:
- Opportunity to work on a high-scale, user-focused platform
- Strong engineering culture with real ownership and autonomy
- Collaborative, product-driven environment
- Influence over technical direction and architecture
- Competitive salary and benefits package
If you're interested or have any further questions on the role, please feel free to reach out to Eve Geddis directly on LinkedIn.
Skills:
PHP Development, RESTful API's, Laravel, Mysql, PostgreSQL, AWS
