PHP Engineer

Lendable Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing fintech company in London seeks a Junior PHP Engineer to enhance their UK Loans team. The position involves building and optimizing APIs and platforms, and offers a modern tech stack including PHP 8, Symfony, and AWS. Ideal candidates have 2+ years in PHP development, automated testing skills, and a desire to learn in a collaborative setting. The role also provides equity and flexible working options.

Benefits

Best-in-class compensation including equity

Work from home on Mondays and Fridays

Fresh, healthy lunches prepared by in-house chefs

Private health insurance coverage

Qualifications

• Ideally 2+ years experience in PHP development.
• Good understanding of modern PHP frameworks like Symfony or Laravel.
• Skills in unit, integration, and functional testing.

Responsibilities

• Build and integrate new APIs to enhance the customer journey.
• Optimize lending platforms for better performance.
• Engage in architectural discussions within the team.

Skills

Modern PHP development

Symfony or Laravel

Automated testing

Desire to learn

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

## About the roleWe're looking for a Junior PHP Engineer to join our UK Loans team!Our engineering organisation is home to over 160 talented engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and platform disciplines.You'll have the opportunity to work on everything from building and integrating new APIs to enhance the customer journey, to optimising our lending platforms, and engaging in deep architectural discussions. There's plenty to tackle, and we're excited to find the right people to take on the challenge## Our Modern Tech StackWe believe in using the right tools for the job, and our stack reflects our commitment to modern, efficient development:* **Backend:** PHP 8, Symfony, AWS, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes* **CI/CD:** GitHub Actions and ArgoCD (we deploy to production as soon as a feature is complete!)* **Testing:** Behat, PHPUnit for robust automated testing## What we’re looking forEssential* Ideally **2+ years experience*** **Modern PHP** development experience (PHP 8.0+ is a must)* A good understanding of a modern **PHP framework like Symfony or Laravel*** **Automated testing** skills (unit, integration, functional)* A keen **desire to want to learn** and input into a highly collaborative team* Must be **based in/near London**Desirable* Experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems or Event Sourcing* Experience with microservices would be a plus* If you’ve worked in a cross functional environment, it would be a plus but not needed**Interview process**We value your time and have designed an efficient process to get to know you:1. A quick **chat** with one of our team to see if the role is a good match.2. A practical take-home **coding exercise** for you to showcase your coding skills.3. A **technical interview** to discuss your coding exercise and dive deeper into your skills.4. A **culture-add interview** to assess how you'd thrive within our team and organisation.* The opportunity to scale up one of the **world’s most successful** fintech companies* **Best-in-class** compensation, including equity* You can work from home **every Monday and Friday** if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas* **Our in-house chefs** prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday* We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to **private health insurance*** We're an **equal opportunity employer** and are keen to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London