Mid-Level PHP Developer

Mid-Level PHP Developer (Laravel / CakePHP) Basingstoke£40,000 - £55,000 per annumHybrid - 1 day onsite per week Overview An exciting opportunity has arisen with a growing organisation looking for an experienced Mid-Level PHP Developer to join their internal technology team. You’ll play a key role in developing, enhancing, and supporting business-critical CRM applications. Working within a collaborative Agile Scrum environment, you’ll deliver new functionality, improve existing systems, and contribute to the continued evolution of applications alongside developers, QA engineers, Business Analysts, and DevOps teams. This is a great opportunity to work across modern and legacy technologies, solve technical challenges, and make a real impact through high-quality software development. Roles & Responsibilities Develop and maintain backend applications using PHP (Laravel and CakePHP).Deliver new features from development through to testing, deployment, and ongoing improvements.Enhance existing applications, including supporting and modernising legacy systems.Build and maintain APIs, integrations, and backend services.Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code following best practices.Contribute to code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD processes.Support system design, technical improvements, and performance optimisation.Collaborate within an Agile Scrum team alongside developers, QA, Business Analysts, and DevOps teams. Skills & Experience 3+ years’ commercial experience developing with PHP.Strong experience with PHP 7.4 (CakePHP) and PHP 8+ (Laravel/Symfony).Experience building backend systems, APIs, and integrations.Strong knowledge of MySQL and database optimisation.Good working knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS.Experience with Git, pull requests, and collaborative development workflows.Familiarity with Docker, Linux/WSL, and automated testing practices.Understanding of software design principles, clean code standards, and Agile development.Exposure to Vue.js/Nuxt, Azure, CI/CD pipelines, messaging technologies, or microservices would be beneficial.