Senior PHP Engineer

Benjamin Crozat; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital agency is seeking a Senior PHP Engineer to join their hybrid team in Sheffield. You will work on bespoke PHP solutions, developing and implementing features for a range of clients. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in PHP and experience with Laravel, SQL databases, and PHP-based CMS integration. This role offers excellent career development support and a flexible working environment including both remote and office days.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Training and education benefits

Mental health coaching

Annual profit share

Flex-time policy

Qualifications

• Strong skills in modern object-oriented PHP with several years of professional experience.
• Experience with frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony.
• Confidence working with SQL and various databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and fix features on new and existing projects.
• Write unit, feature, and integration tests using automated testing suites.
• Review teammates' code and test it against specifications.

Skills

Modern object-oriented PHP

Experience with Laravel or Symfony

SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)

PHP-based CMS integration

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud)

Job description

# Senior PHP Engineer with Laravel and CMS experience## About the job| | || --- | --- || Added | 1 day ago || Company | Evoluted || Salary | £35,000—£45,000 || Status | Full-time || Seniority | Senior || Equity | No || Location | Sheffield, United Kingdom || Setting | Hybrid |## Description summary* You join the engineering team to deliver bespoke, high-performing PHP solutions for a wide range of clients, always balancing technical quality with maintainable, human-friendly code.* You work in a permanent, full-time, UK-based hybrid role, choosing between remote work, time in the Sheffield office or a mix, with monthly in-office days and company away days plus the ability to travel to Sheffield a few times a year.* You develop, implement and fix features on new and existing projects, including fully bespoke applications, deeply customised CMS builds and off-the-shelf Shopify stores, and handle deployments to live systems.* You write unit, feature and integration tests using automated testing suites, review teammates’ code and test it against specifications, and help maintain performance, reliability and security.* You bring strong modern, object-oriented PHP skills, solid experience with frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony/Yii/CakePHP/Spiral, and are confident working with SQL, ORMs and databases like PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL and MongoDB.* You are comfortable integrating and extending PHP-based CMSs such as Craft CMS, Statamic or similar, use Git and GitLab effectively, and care about automated testing, performance optimisation and secure coding practices.* You ideally offer additional skills in Docker, CI/CD pipelines (for example GitLab pipelines, GitHub Actions, CircleCI or Jenkins), cloud infrastructure on providers like AWS or Google Cloud Platform, and tools like Pulumi or Ansible for infrastructure-as-code and system planning.* You have several years of professional experience, ideally at senior level, can demonstrate project leadership within small aligned teams, and are happy with a mix of coding, planning, estimating and meetings while remaining comfortable writing and understanding your own code without over reliance on AI.## Technologies* Ansible* AWS* Behat* CakePHP* CircleCI* Craft CMS* Cypress* Docker* Drupal* Git* GitHub Actions* GitLab* Google Cloud Platform* Jenkins* Laravel* MongoDB* MySQL* October CMS* PHP* PHPUnit* PostgreSQL* Pulumi* Shopify* Spiral* SQL* SQLite* Statamic* Symfony* WordPress* Yii## Perks and benefits* Fully hybrid working environment with the choice to work from home, the Sheffield HQ or a mix of both.* Career development support via a bespoke performance management tool with clear, skill-based progression pathways and qualitative appraisals.* Training and education benefits including expensed conferences, in-house lunch and learn sessions, external training, courses, books and a £750 personal training budget with regular reviews and 1:1s.* Access to monthly mental health coaching sessions through trained coaches from Sanctus, providing a safe space to talk.* Annual profit share scheme where 20% of profit from client-related work is shared equally among the whole team in December payroll.* Flexi-time policy allowing you to work any time between 7am and 7pm to fit around appointments, school runs, workouts and other personal commitments.* Regular company away days and monthly in-office days to stay connected with the wider team.## What you need to know about Evoluted, the company* Multi-award-winning full-service digital agency delivering transformative digital solutions for ambitious and high-growth brands.* Founded in 2006 in Sheffield and operating from a refurbished 18th-century steelworks HQ, with a growing presence in Manchester, Birmingham and London.* Specialises in ecommerce-focused digital marketing, bespoke web development, and user-centred design and UX for recognised brands and SMEs.* Positions itself as a client-first, value-driven, solutions-oriented partner that works as an extension of in-house teams rather than a traditional supplier.* Widely recognised by leading industry awards, including honours for integrated search, digital agency of the year and employer of the year.* Proud B Corp with a people-before-profits culture, emphasising strong relationships, community impact and meaningful pro-bono work.* Combines search-first marketing, distinct design and dynamic web development to create bespoke platforms and campaigns that drive measurable growth.