PHP Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years experience with PHP
• Strong, business oriented, engineer with modern PHP development experience (PHP 8.0+ is a must)
• High degree of ownership and autonomy
• A good understanding of Symfony
• Experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems and Event Sourcing would be a plus
• Strong automatic testing skills (unit, integration, functional, behat)
• Experience working on financial systems
• A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team

What the job involves

• We're looking for a PHP Engineer to join our growing UK Loans team, either based in or around London
• Our engineering organisation is home to over 200 talented engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and platform disciplines
• You'll have the opportunity to work on everything from building and integrating new APIs to enhance the customer journey, to optimising our lending platforms, and engaging in deep architectural discussions. There's plenty to tackle, and we're excited to find the right people to take on the challenge
• Our Tech Stack
• We believe in using the right tools for the job, and our stack reflects our commitment to modern, efficient development:
• Backend: PHP 8, Symfony 7, AWS, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions and ArgoCD (we deploy to production as soon as a feature is complete!)
• Testing: Behat, PHPUnit

The application process

• A quick chat with one of our team to see if the role is a good match
• 15 minute cognitive Test
• A technical interview to assess your technical skills
• A culture-add interview to assess how you'd thrive within our team and organisation

Benefits

• 💸 Best-in-class compensation, including equity
• 🏠 You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas (hybrid)
• 🍲 Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
• 🏥 Comprehensive private health insurance (including dental, optometry and general wellbeing)
• 🚗 EV car scheme (Octopus)
• 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
• 🧮 Pension
• 🌴 25 days of annual leave - excluding bank holidays
• 🎊 Multiple opportunities to socialise with your team and the wider company
• 🏋️‍♀️ 50% off gym memberships at Virgin Active and Nuffield (via Vitality health insurance)
• 💻 Equipment provided for you to do your best work!