Senior PHP Engineer (UK Cards)

  • London / Remote
  • Full time
  • remote
  • UK Cards Team

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior PHP engineer to join our Zable Card engineering team. Our current team is around 15 engineers made up of backend, frontend and platform engineers. They work alongside a further 100+ people across the rest of our engineering function. 
There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new APIs to further improve the customer journey and optimising the lending platform to deep architectural discussions.

Tech Stack

  • Backend
  • PHP 8
  • Symfony
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Other
  • Jenkins and Github Actions - we deploy to production as soon as we finish a feature 
  • Behat, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium and Detox for automated 
  • What are we looking for

  • 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
  • Interview 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 and meet the team you’ll work with daily