PHP Engineer

Salary: £55,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for a Mid level PHP Engineer to join our growing UK Loans team, based in or around London.
• We need at least 3+ years of experience with PHP.
• We are looking for a strong, business-oriented engineer with modern PHP development experience; PHP 8.0+ is a must.
• We want someone with a high degree of ownership and autonomy.
• We need a good understanding of Symfony.
• Experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems, and Event Sourcing would be a plus.
• Strong automatic testing skills are required, including unit, integration, functional, and Behat testing.
• Experience working on financial systems is desirable.
• We are looking for someone with a keen desire to learn and contribute in a highly collaborative team.

Responsibilities:

• We will have you build and integrate new APIs to enhance the customer journey.
• We will have you optimise our lending platforms.
• We will have you take part in deep architectural discussions.
• We expect you to work across a broad remit and help drive the direction and success of Lendable from day one.
• We want you to help build the best technology in-house using new data sources, machine learning, and AI.
• We will have you contribute as part of a small, exceptional engineering team solving problems and finding smarter solutions than the status quo.

Technologies:

• AI
• Backend
• Frontend
• Machine Learning
• Mobile
• PHP
• Symfony
• DDD
• AWS
• ArgoCD
• Cloud
• Docker
• GitHub
• Support
• PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ

More:

We are Lendable, on a mission to build the worlds best technology to help people get credit and save money. We are building one of the worlds leading fintech companies and are one of the UKs newest unicorns, with just over 700 people. We are among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK, profitable since 2017, and backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs. We are loved by customers, with a 4.9 rating across tens of thousands of Trustpilot reviews. We have rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards, and car finance, and we get money into our customers hands in minutes instead of days. We are hiring for our UK Loans team within Engineering & Product in London for a full-time hybrid role. Our engineering organisation has over 200 talented engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and platform disciplines. We offer flexible working, opportunities for social connection, private health cover, retirement savings plans, an employee referral programme, office meals and snacks, and sustainable commuting schemes in select locations. The interview process includes a quick chat, a technical interview, and a culture-add interview.

last updated 36 week of 2026