Mid-Level PHP Development Engineer

Mid-Level PHP / Symfony Development Engineer

Permanent role, 37 hours per week. Competitive Salary (£32,000 to £45,000 FTE dependent on experience). Hybrid role – home working with a minimum of 2 office days in Leeds.

Are you ready to join an innovative and dynamic organisation redefining the future of education? This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join a passionate and forward‑thinking team, driving impactful change and shaping the educational landscape for future generations. You'll have the unique privilege of helping to support White Rose Education’s vision of empowering educators, enhancing student outcomes and expanding our reach and impact globally.

• Design, build, and maintain web applications and APIs using modern development practices.
• Develop, maintain, and optimise Symfony‑based APIs and backend services.
• Write clean, scalable, and well‑documented PHP code following best practices.
• Integrate with and deploy services on AWS, including EC2 and Lambda.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous integration processes.
• Collaborate closely with front‑end developers, QA engineers and stakeholders.
• Support and maintain existing systems, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to technical documentation.
• Contribute ideas and technical insight to help shape architectural decisions and improve development workflows.

All staff must have an awareness and commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students. It is an expectation that all staff will share this commitment. All staff must abide by company policies and procedures, copies of which are available on our HR system. Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task may not be identified.

Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified within this job description.

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• Proven experience developing with PHP (8 or above) and Symfony (6) frameworks.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and integration.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services, particularly EC2 and Lambda.
• Experience with Git, modern CI/CD pipelines and JIRA for ticket management.
• Familiarity with relational databases (MySQL) and ORM tools (Doctrine).
• Ability to write maintainable, testable, and efficient code.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and attention to detail.

• Front‑end experience with JavaScript, Type Script, or React.
• Exposure to Docker or containerised deployment environments.
• Understanding of serverless architectures and microservices.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks (PHPUnit 11, Codeception
  5).

• A proactive, self‑motivated approach with strong ownership of tasks.
• Good communication skills, able to explain technical ideas clearly.
• A collaborative team player who enjoys learning and sharing knowledge.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and keeping up with new technologies.