Senior Software Developer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 21 April 2026
LOCATION
Leeds
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Software Engineering
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

PHP Laravel Git Unit Testing Object-oriented programming System design

FULL DESCRIPTION

Join a fast-growing team building innovative products!

We are looking for a passionate and dedicated developer who would like to be a part of a fast growing team and work on a highly innovative product. We use TDD for the development process and a mixture of GitLab CI/CD + AWS services to deploy our code into production. We believe that the code can be deployed as often as required without planning inconvenient maintenance windows.

This is a mid-to-senior developer role. We’re looking for a candidate with strong backend experience, particularly with Laravel, and the right skillset to contribute effectively to our engineering team.

An ideal candidate would have the following:

  • Enjoys working as a team - helping others, and learning together
  • Ability to organise own time within project and task requirements
  • Good attention to detail with a desire for producing excellent code
  • Good understanding of writing robust, readable code
  • Appreciation of system design and overall architecture
  • Desire to learn and grow skills and knowledge within a team learning context
  • Contribute to team’s best practice in relation to coding principles, standards and methods

The following technical skills and experience are required:

  • Experience in writing robust, object-oriented PHP code with at least a couple of years experience in Laravel
  • At least some experience with writing unit/feature PHP tests
  • A some experience in using Git
  • Methodical approach to troubleshooting and tracking down bugs

Any of the following would be a bonus, but not essential:

  • Degree in Software Engineering or equivalent course
  • Some experience in test driven development
  • Experience with ticket tracking software e.g. Jira to track project progress
  • Some experience with using Docker

Location Hybrid Role with Minimum 3 days in the office.

Benefits

  • A small but passionate and friendly team to work with
  • A team culture of continual learning together with regular training sessions
  • Personal development opportunities
  • Company contributed pension scheme (following probation period)
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Company paid social events
  • Weekly office perks for example Breakfast, sweet treats or lunch
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