Staff PHP Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a Staff PHP Engineers to join our Zable Card, Autolend, [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Loans, and Internal Tools teams!

Our engineering organisation is home to over 140 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 Tech Stack

Backend

• PHP 8
• Symfony
• AWS
• MySQL
• RabbitMQ
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Other

• Jenkins and Github Actions - we deploy to production as soon as we finish a feature
• Behat, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium and Detox for automated testing

What we’re looking for

- Strong, modern PHP development experience (PHP 8.0+ is a must)

- A good understanding of a modern PHP framework like Symfony or Laravel

- Any experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems and Event Sourcing would be a plus

- Experience with microservices would be a plus

- Strong automatic testing skills (unit, integration, functional)

- A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team

- If you’ve worked in a cross functional environment, it would be a plus but not needed

Interview process

- A quick phone call with one of the team

- A short coding exercise to complete in your own time

- Onsite or Video Interview

- Discuss the exercise you completed

- Meet the team you’ll work with daily

About [Employer hidden]

[Employer hidden] is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money.

- Founded in 2014

- Profitable since 2017

- Unicorn in 2021

- £3.5bn valuation in 2022

- Backed by Balderton, Goldman Sachs and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

- Loved by customers & employees with top reviews on Glassdoor and Trustpilot

So far, we’ve rebuilt the big three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do. We’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Life at [Employer hidden]

- 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 [Employer hidden] the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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