PHP Developer

Summary: This role is for a PHP Developer to join a manufacturing client in South Yorkshire during a significant transformation program. The position requires a skilled individual to support an existing team of four, primarily working remotely with occasional on-site attendance. The contract is for six months and is classified as outside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining high-performance, business-critical web applications.
• Designing and implementing scalable, maintainable backend architectures.
• Developing and integrating RESTful APIs and third-party services.
• Leading by example with clean, well-tested code and sound engineering practices.
• Actively contributing to architectural discussions and technical decision-making.

Key Skills:

• Extensive hands-on PHP experience, with deep Laravel expertise.
• Strong grasp of software engineering principles and application lifecycle best practices.
• Confident with CLI tools, shell environments, and developer automation workflows.
• Solid experience with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, MySQL) and query optimisation.
• Proven ability to work effectively in collaborative, team-based environments.
• Strong version control knowledge – Git, branching strategies, and release management.
• Experience migrating legacy applications and refactoring outdated codebases (nice-to-have).
• Familiarity with microservices and distributed system patterns (nice-to-have).
• Proficiency in procedural SQL (e.g., PL/SQL, T-SQL, MySQL stored procedures) (nice-to-have).
• Exposure to ACCELL/SQL (4GL) (nice-to-have).
• Unix or AIX shell scripting experience (nice-to-have).
• Working knowledge of frontend integration: JavaScript, jQuery, XML, Apache, Nginx (nice-to-have).

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: South Yorkshire

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT