Ronald James

Ronald James

Newcastle upon Tyne, North East

Laravel Developer

Full-Time£38,000 - 78,000 per yearhierUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £38,000 - 78,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Strong commercial experience with PHP 8.0+ and Laravel 10+, building robust and maintainable applications
  • Comfortable working across the full stack, including Blade, Livewire, and modern frontend tooling such as Vite, TailwindCSS, and Node
  • Solid understanding of database design and optimisation, ideally with MySQL, and experience using Redis for caching and queues
  • Experience working in containerised environments such as Docker and docker-compose
  • Hands-on experience with background job processing and queue-based workflows
  • Familiarity with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and peer code reviews
  • Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
  • Pragmatic approach to testing and quality assurance, ideally with exposure to PHPUnit and CI practices
  • Ability to work independently on larger tasks while contributing to overall technical direction
Responsibilities:
  • Design and develop backend services that are scalable, testable, and maintainable within a modern Laravel environment
  • Take ownership of service-layer logic, addressing existing gaps and implementing clean, modular solutions to support integrations and business operations
  • Collaborate with the team to improve queue job handling, reliability, traceability, and error management across asynchronous processes
  • Work closely with DevOps and QA to support CI/CD pipelines and ensure automated testing and deployments meet quality standards
  • Maintain and optimise local development and Docker-based environments, including queue workers and supporting services
  • Proactively identify and resolve technical debt, contributing to platform stability and production readiness
  • Support system integrations with third-party services and internal APIs
  • Contribute to code quality through peer reviews, consistent development patterns, and knowledge sharing
  • Assist with improvements to frontend tooling and workflows, contributing to UI components built with Livewire, TailwindCSS, and Vite
  • Stay up to date with developments across the Laravel ecosystem and contribute to ongoing technical improvements
Technologies:
  • Backend
  • CI/CD
  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • Frontend
  • Git
  • Support
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • PHPUnit
  • Redis
  • TailwindCSS
  • UX UI Design
  • NodeJS

More:

We are looking for a Senior PHP Full Stack Developer to join our development team and contribute to the evolution of a Laravel-based platform. This role is suited to someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, improving system architecture, and working across both backend and frontend layers of a modern, containerised application. You will work within a small, focused office-based team, taking ownership of core service logic, background processing, and third-party integrations. The position offers a high level of ownership and the opportunity to influence technical direction. This is a fully office-based role in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, with a permanent salary of 50000 - 55000.

last updated 36 week of 2026

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About Ronald James

Ronald James

Ronald James

Newcastle upon Tyne

IT

Skills & Technologies

GoPHPScalaLaravelDockerGitCI/CDMySQLRedisAIDevOpsUX

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