Senior PHP Developer

Fewandfar — United Kingdom · Posted ~1 day ago

Senior Contract Remote No Visa £375-£425 per day

Skills

PHP Backend Development Distributed Systems High-load Architecture DDD CQRS SOLID TDD CI/CD Agile Symfony Laravel MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis AWS Kubernetes GitLab Grafana Prometheus Node.js

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A digital services organization is seeking a senior backend developer for a contract role. The position involves designing and improving high-volume systems, working with modern development practices, and delivering reliable transactional solutions.

Highlights

Fully remote contract role with strong ownership over backend systems, modern engineering practices, and collaboration across product and business teams.

Description

Senior PHP Developer | 6-Month Contract | Outside IR35 I’m currently recruiting for a Senior PHP Developer to join a dedicated Payments team on an initial 6-month contract. 💷 £375–£425 per day 📍 Fully remote – UK based 📄 Outside IR35 ⏱️ 6-month contract 🚫 No sponsorship available 🎯 2-stage interview process 🔧 The Role You’ll be working within a Payments team, building and improving the back-end systems that support areas including: • Tax calculations & VAT processing • Invoicing systems • Financial data & transactional workflows • Audit readiness and compliance • High-load and distributed systems You’ll have genuine ownership across design, development and delivery, working closely with Product and Finance stakeholders. 💻 What we’re looking for • 5+ years’ experience in back-end development • Strong PHP experience — Node.js experience is also relevant • Experience with high-load architecture & distributed systems • Strong understanding of DDD & CQRS • SOLID, TDD, CI/CD and Agile development practices • Strong debugging, testing and performance optimisation skills • Product-minded approach with strong ownership • Experience using LLMs / AI coding assistants within development workflows 🛠️ Tech Stack PHP 8.1+ | Symfony | Laravel | Yii2 | Doctrine | PHPUnit | MySQL | PostgreSQL | MongoDB | Redis | AWS | Kubernetes | Docker Experience with Git, GitLab/GitHub, Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus and modern AI-assisted development tools is also relevant. If you're a Senior PHP Developer / Back-End Engineer and available for a new contract, feel free to apply below!