PHP Developer (Laravel) | North Manchester (Hybrid - onsite initially)

£45,000 - £50,000

We're working with a long-established, financially backed business going through a period of modernisation across their product and engineering teams.

As part of that, they're looking to bring in a PHP Developer to support and improve their core platform with a real focus on cleaning up, modernising, and moving things forward.

The Opportunity

You'll be working across a core platform built in PHP (Laravel) and MySQL, helping to:

• Improve and modernise an existing codebase
• Introduce better engineering practices
• Support a move towards containerisation (Docker)
• Contribute to CI/CD improvements
• Work alongside the team as they gradually move towards cloud (AWS)
• The team are actively encouraging the use of AI tools (eg Claude) to improve development workflows.

We're looking for developers who:

• Are open to using AI to speed up delivery and problem solving
• Have started exploring how it can improve code quality or productivity
• Are generally curious and proactive about new tooling

What we're looking for:

• Strong experienc with PHP and Laravel
• Solid understanding of MySQL
• Comfortable working across Back End (with some Front End exposure - React nice to have)
• Experience or interest in:
• Docker/containerisation
• CI/CD pipelines
• improving code quality and structure
• Someone who enjoys making things better, not just maintaining

Logistics

• North Manchester
• Hybrid working (initial onsite presence during probation)
• Salary around £45-50k