Senior PHP Developer

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER PHP

Purpose

To design and build the modular platform that will carry the business capability as we move off a forty-year-old system working in PHP 8.3 with Slim, Doctrine and PostgreSQL and to share ownership of it properly across a small team.

The stack

Backend PHP 8.3 Slim 4 PHP-DI 7 Doctrine ORM 2 & DBAL 3 PostgreSQL 16 Symfony Console, Cache, YAML respect/validation

Front end React 18 React Router 6 TanStack Query 5 an internal component library plain JavaScript

Quality PHPUnit PHP_CodeSniffer Phan Playwright gated on every branch in GitHub Actions

Infrastructure Docker nginx & PHP-FPM AWS GitHub Actions to a container registry

Applications are assembled from libraries rather than handed to you by a ready-made framework: routes registered explicitly, dependencies injected through a container, Doctrine used as a data mapper with entities and repositories. A set of internal Composer packages sits underneath authentication, permissions, queuing, customer lookups and more and a new module is built on top of these rather than from nothing.

Background to the role

We are a fleet management company, recently been acquired by a blue chip bank. We have a bespoke system to run the company which is also forty years old, and the next few years are about moving off it.

The bank are introducing a new leasing platform. Some of what we do will migrate onto it. A great deal will not, and those gaps are what we will be building. The scope is business-wide and extensive: every operational area of the company has capability that will need rebuilding over the coming years.

To take one small illustration from one team: the new leasing platform can accept the concept of a penalty charge notice and invoice it to a customer. It cannot, however, take in and scan the physical paperwork, identify who was driving, run the correspondence and appeals, or handle the payment and refunds. This is a gap, and therefore a module we have built ourselves and put live this year and it is...