We are a team of talented developers, testers, engineers and managers working together to build exciting and robust systems for a growing provider of specialist insurance products based in Peterborough. We are offering a highly competitive basic salary, 28 days holiday which increases after 2 years and excellent training opportunities with scope for progression. We pride ourselves on being a champion of the young driver, giving them a safer, fairer and simpler option on their car insurance.

As a Senior PHP Developer, you will be working for a SME company that values its employees and offers a friendly and supportive working environment. You will have direct input into the technical direction of the organisation and will influence the way in which the solutions and the systems are designed and built.

Your primary focus will be on the development of server-side logic ensuring the high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

You enjoy working as part of team and are passionate about programming and have a willingness to explore and learn new technologies. You are keen to provide support and guidance to junior developers and assist the Lead PHP Developer maintain a clean, well-written code base

•    5 years+ experience as a PHP Developer
•    Excellent understanding of OOP & code design
•    Experience working with Symfony framework
•    Proficient in designing and optimising MySQL databases
•    Using debugging tools (XDebug) and writing unit tests (PHPUnit)
•    Consuming and building APIs (REST, SOAP)
•    Working as part of a team on a project
•    Comfortable working in a LAMP environment
•    Good knowledge version control system (Git)
•    Mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews
•    Perform monthly one to ones for direct reports
•    Excellent communication skills

•    HTML4, HTML5, XHMTL, XML, CSS, CSS3, Javascript/JQuery experience
•    Experience using Composer and Satis
•    Working in an Apple Mac environment

The hours of work are Monday to Friday, 9am - 5.30pm. Working at our Peterborough office is at the manager’s discretion but working from home for most of the time is acceptable if preferred.

If you are an aspiring Senior PHP Developer looking to work within a successful company to develop technical skills and knowledge and to be recognized and rewarded as a key member of a growing business, then please apply today.