Senior Backend Engineer

Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• We need at least 5 years of commercial PHP experience.
• We need strong understanding of MySQL and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ and Redis.
• We need experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus.
• We need a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset.
• We need excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities:

• We design, build and optimise PHP-based APIs and backend services.
• We help decouple a large PHP 7.4 monorepo into modern PHP 8.1 services.
• We work with AWS, Kubernetes, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis and Cassandra.
• We collaborate closely with frontend, QA and product teams in a Kanban workflow.
• We contribute ideas to improve scalability, performance and reliability.
• We take ownership from concept through to deployment and support daily production releases.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Backend
• Cloud
• Cassandra
• Frontend
• GCP
• Support
• Kanban
• Kubernetes
• MySQL
• PHP
• RabbitMQ
• Redis

More:

We are a well-established, award-winning technology business that is scaling rapidly and building a suite of market-leading products. You will join a collaborative, cross-functional backend engineering team in Fareham, working in a hybrid or on-site environment and reporting to an Engineering Manager who has grown internally with the company. This is an opportunity to work on high-traffic products, modernise core systems, and have real ownership in a fast-paced, large-scale environment. We offer a salary of up to £70,000, an annual bonus of 10%, and a competitive benefits package. Please note that we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

last updated 33 week of 2026