Staff PHP Engineer
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 28 April 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Fintech
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion
SKILLS
PHP 8.0+
Symfony
Laravel
Domain Driven Design
Message-Driven Systems
Event Sourcing
microservices
automatic testing
FULL DESCRIPTION
Staff PHP Engineer
Company: [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]
Location: London
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Type: Full-time
Experience Level: Mid-Senior level
Salary: Salary not provided
Job Description
We're looking for a Staff PHP Engineers to join our Zable Card, Autolend, [Employer hidden] Loans, and Internal Tools teams! 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.
Who you are
- 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
Application 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
Company Benefits
- Best-in-class compensation, including equity
- Comprehensive private health insurance (including dental, optometry and general wellbeing)
- Multiple opportunities to socialise with your team and the wider company
- Equipment provided for you to do your best work!
- 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 (hybrid)
- Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
- EV car scheme (Octopus)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension
- 25 days of annual leave - excluding bank holidays
- 50% off gym memberships at Virgin Active and Nuffield (via Vitality health insurance)
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