Senior Laravel / Backend Engineer

📍 Northampton (Hybrid - 1 day per week in the office)

💰 £47,000 - £58,000

Our client a fast-growing SaaS fintech business in Northampton is undertaking a major platform rebuild, re-engineering a 15-year-old white-label SaaS product onto a modern Laravel architecture.

This role sits at the centre of that transformation — extracting legacy domain logic and rebuilding it into a clean, modular Laravel platform with a modern API-first architecture. You will be involved in domain extraction, service-layer design, API architecture, and rebuilding a production SaaS platform used by financial services organisations.

Key Technologies / Skills

PHP • Laravel • REST APIs • OpenAPI / Swagger • MySQL • Relational Database Design • Service Layer Architecture • Domain Driven Design • API Versioning • Modular Architecture • Git • Automated Testing • Backend Engineering • SaaS Platforms

Bonus Experience:

React • Inertia.js • CI/CD • Microservices Architecture • Legacy Platform Migration • Software Refactoring • Scalable Web Applications

What You'll Be Doing

• Rebuilding core domain logic from legacy PHP into clean Laravel services

• Designing modular service-layer architecture for long-term scalability

• Building OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs with versioning, documentation and clear contracts

• Refactoring and modernising a 15-year legacy database schema

• Identifying and eliminating legacy anti-patterns in the existing platform

• Writing clean, testable business logic with strong test coverage

• Collaborating on architecture decisions and technical standards

• Working closely with the design and frontend team to deliver APIs powering a React + Inertia admin platform

Ideal Background

• 5+ years PHP development experience

• Expert Laravel development experience (3+ years)

• Experience refactoring or migrating legacy systems

• Comfortable designing service layers and modular domain architecture

• Strong understanding of relational databases and legacy schemas

• Experience designing APIs used by external clients or third parties

• Pragmatic engineer who understands when to refactor and when to ship

Why Join

• Major SaaS platform re-architecture project

• Opportunity to build modern Laravel architecture from the ground up

• Work on software used across the financial services ecosystem

• Hybrid working - only 1 day per week in the Northampton office

• Join a scaling product-led technology company

Apply now with a word Cv, for immediate interview. Please note we are unable to sponsor any VISA applications