Junior PHP Engineer

  • London, UK
  • Full Time (Permanent)
  • Engineering

About the role

We're looking for a Junior PHP Engineer to join our UK Loans team!

Our engineering organisation is home to over 160 talented engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and platform disciplines.

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. There's plenty to tackle, and we're excited to find the right people to take on the challenge

Our Modern Tech Stack

We believe in using the right tools for the job, and our stack reflects our commitment to modern, efficient development:

  • Backend: PHP 8, Symfony, AWS, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes

  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions and ArgoCD (we deploy to production as soon as a feature is complete!)

  • Testing: Behat, PHPUnit for robust automated testing

What we’re looking for

Essential

  • Ideally 2+ years experience

  • Modern PHP development experience (PHP 8.0+ is a must)

  • A good understanding of a modern PHP framework like Symfony or Laravel

  • Automated testing skills (unit, integration, functional)

  • A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team

  • Must be based in London

Desirable

  • Experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems or Event Sourcing

  • Experience with microservices would be a plus

  • If you’ve worked in a cross functional environment, it would be a plus but not needed

Interview process

We value your time and have designed an efficient process to get to know you:

  1. A quick chat with one of our team to see if the role is a good match.

  2. A practical take-home coding exercise for you to showcase your coding skills.

  3. A technical interview to discuss your coding exercise and dive deeper into your skills.

  4. A culture-add interview to assess how you'd thrive within our team and organisation.