Senior Full Stack Web Developer (PHP) || Remote Working

Senior Full Stack Web Developer (PHP)
£50k-£60k DOE || Remote Working

Summary of Position
The Senior Full Stack Web Developer is responsible for the development, maintenance, optimisation and ongoing evolution of the TW Group's e-commerce and wider web estate, spanning multiple websites, applications and technologies including Magento 2, Laravel, WordPress and other platforms.

Key responsibilities include:
Taking technical ownership of web development projects and change requests from initial requirements and solution design through to development, testing, deployment and ongoing support.
- Designing, developing and maintaining robust, scalable and maintainable full-stack web applications, e commerce solutions and custom websites.
- Supporting and continuously improving existing websites and applications, including identifying, troubleshooting and resolving technical issues, performance bottlenecks and production incidents.
- Developing and maintaining integrations between internal and external systems using RESTful APIs, third-party services and other integration technologies.
- Contributing to technical architecture and solution design, ensuring implementations follow appropriate development standards, security practices, design patterns and coding best practices.
- Reviewing and improving existing codebases, identifying opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve performance and increase maintainability.
- Ensuring changes are thoroughly tested in appropriate development and controlled environments before release to production.
- Working closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand business requirements, assess technical feasibility and translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Supporting development standards and engineering processes including source control, code reviews, CI/CD and deployment practices.
- Providing technical guidance, knowledge sharing and mentoring to other developers, while promoting high standards of code quality and engineering best practice.
- Keeping up to date with relevant technologies and identifying opportunities to improve the Group's development processes, platforms and technical capabilities, including the appropriate use of automation and AI-assisted development tools.

Core Technical Skills
Strong proficiency in PHP (modern versions, OOP, best practices)
- Extensive experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or similar
- Solid front-end development skills using JavaScript / TypeScript
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React, Vue, or Angular)
- Deep understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design
- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs

Essential Tools & Ecosystem
Experience with version control using Git (branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews)
- Strong working knowledge of Composer
- Experience with npm / Node.js - Familiarity with build tools (e.g. Vite, Webpack)
- Experience working with Linux-based development environments
 
Backend & Database
Strong experience with MySQL
- Understanding of database design, indexing, and performance optimisation
- Experience with ORMs (e.g. Eloquent, Doctrine)
- Knowledge of caching systems (Redis, Memcached)  

Architecture & Best Practices
- Proven experience designing scalable and maintainable applications
- Strong understanding of MVC architecture and design patterns
- Experience writing clean, testable, and well-documented code
- Understanding of API security, authentication, and authorization

DevOps & Deployment
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with Docker and containerised environments
- Understanding of server management and web servers (Nginx, Apache)

Experience
- 5+ years of professional development experience, primarily with PHP
- Proven track record of delivering production-grade web applications
- Previous experience in a senior role

Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to mentor and support junior developers
- Excellent communication skills - Proactive mindset with strong ownership of work

Nice-to-Have
- Familiarity with GraphQL
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Exposure to automated testing pipelines and QA processes
- Experience working with magento 2 and building modules
- Understanding / experience of working with AI agents.

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