Senior Product Engineer - PHP

Senior Product Engineer – PHP £80,000 | Remote UK | PHP | SaaS | AI Are you a Senior PHP Engineer who wants more than simply picking up tickets and delivering predefined solutions? We’re working with an established and growing technology business looking for two Senior Product Engineers to join its engineering function. This is an opportunity to remain hands-on while having genuine ownership over what gets built, why it gets built and how the technical solution is designed. You’ll initially join a small team responsible for modernising and expanding a suite of existing applications, building new internal products and integrations, and solving engineering challenges around scale, APIs and significant data volumes. Longer term, you’ll have the opportunity to move onto an exciting greenfield AI-powered product, designed to automate high-volume support queries and transform how users access information and support. What you'll be doing Designing, developing and improving scalable PHP applicationsModernising existing products and building new functionalityDeveloping integrations and APIsWorking with applications handling significant traffic and data volumesCollaborating closely with Product Managers to understand problems and shape solutionsTaking technical ownership from discovery through to deliveryMentoring and coaching other engineersContributing to engineering standards and technical decision-makingUsing AI development tools to improve engineering workflowsLonger term, contributing to the development of a greenfield AI product What we're looking for You'll be an experienced PHP Engineer with a strong product mindset. Rather than immediately jumping into a technical solution, you'll be someone who asks questions, understands the problem and considers scalability and long-term impact. You'll ideally have: Strong commercial PHP experienceExperience within a SaaS or product-led environmentExperience developing applications at scaleStrong understanding of OOP, SOLID and DRY principlesSQL/MySQL experienceExperience working with cloud-based applicationsStrong API development experienceExperience mentoring or coaching other engineersExperience working closely with Product ManagersA track record of taking ownership of technical solutionsAn interest in AI and modern AI-assisted development Experience with Symfony or Laravel, AWS/GCP/Azure, microservices, Terraform, Datadog or Prometheus would be beneficial but isn't essential. Why consider it? You'll be joining a highly autonomous engineering environment where you'll have the opportunity to influence products rather than simply deliver tickets. Alongside working on applications operating at genuine scale, you'll have a route into an exciting greenfield AI project and the opportunity to help shape the product at an early stage.