Laravel Developer

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

This company is looking for a Senior PHP Full Stack Developer to join its development team and contribute to the evolution of a Laravel-based platform.

This role is suited to someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, improving system architecture, and working across both backend and frontend layers of a modern, containerised application.

You will work within a small, focused office-based team, taking ownership of core service logic, background processing, and third-party integrations. The position offers a high level of ownership and the opportunity to influence technical direction.

Please note - This is a fully office based role.

Key Responsibilities Design and develop backend services that are scalable, testable, and maintainable within a modern Laravel environment

Take ownership of service-layer logic, addressing existing gaps and implementing clean, modular solutions to support integrations and business operations

Collaborate with the team to improve queue job handling, reliability, traceability, and error management across asynchronous processes

Work closely with Dev Ops and QA to support CI/CD pipelines and ensure automated testing and deployments meet quality standards

Maintain and optimise local development and Docker-based environments, including queue workers and supporting services

Proactively identify and resolve technical debt, contributing to platform stability and production readiness

Support system integrations with third-party services and internal APIsContribute to code quality through peer reviews, consistent development patterns, and knowledge sharing

Assist with improvements to frontend tooling and workflows, contributing to UI components built with Livewire, Tailwind CSS, and Vite Stay up to date with developments across the Laravel ecosystem and contribute to ongoing technical improvements

Skills & Experience Strong commercial experience with PHP (8.0+) and Laravel (10+), building robust and maintainable applications

Comfortable working across the full stack, including Blade, Livewire, and modern frontend tooling such as Vite, Tailwind CSS, and Node Solid understanding of database design and optimisation, ideally with MySQL, and experience using Redis for caching and queues

Experience working in containerised environments such as Docker and docker-compose

Hands-on experience with background job processing and queue-based workflows

Familiarity with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and peer code reviews

Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams

Pragmatic approach to testing and quality assurance, ideally with exposure to PHPUnit and CI practices

Ability to work independently on larger tasks while contributing to overall technical direction. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity - apply today!

Location:

Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear Newcastle upon TyneNE
12 8BX
Salary:50000 - 55000

Sector:

PHP  Type:

Permanent Posted:01/06/2026