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Location:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary:
£50000 - £55000
Sector:
PHP
Type:
Permanent
Posted:
01/06/2026
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
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Design and develop backend services that are scalable, testable, and maintainable within a modern Laravel environment
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Take ownership of service-layer logic, addressing existing gaps and implementing clean, modular solutions to support integrations and business operations
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Collaborate with the team to improve queue job handling, reliability, traceability, and error management across asynchronous processes
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Work closely with DevOps and QA to support CI/CD pipelines and ensure automated testing and deployments meet quality standards
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Maintain and optimise local development and Docker-based environments, including queue workers and supporting services
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Proactively identify and resolve technical debt, contributing to platform stability and production readiness
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Support system integrations with third-party services and internal APIs
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Contribute to code quality through peer reviews, consistent development patterns, and knowledge sharing
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Assist with improvements to frontend tooling and workflows, contributing to UI components built with Livewire, TailwindCSS, and Vite
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Stay up to date with developments across the Laravel ecosystem and contribute to ongoing technical improvements
Skills & Experience
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Strong commercial experience with PHP (8.0+) and Laravel (10+), building robust and maintainable applications
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Comfortable working across the full stack, including Blade, Livewire, and modern frontend tooling such as Vite, TailwindCSS, and Node
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Solid understanding of database design and optimisation, ideally with MySQL, and experience using Redis for caching and queues
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Experience working in containerised environments such as Docker and docker-compose
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Hands-on experience with background job processing and queue-based workflows
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Familiarity with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and peer code reviews
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Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
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Pragmatic approach to testing and quality assurance, ideally with exposure to PHPUnit and CI practices
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Ability to work independently on larger tasks while contributing to overall technical direction.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity - apply today!
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