Overview

We are a highly successful UK-based Events Management SaaS company looking for an ambitious PHP Technology/Software Architect to help oversee the next phase of development of our suite of products. The role is for a Senior PHP Developer - REST API at EVENTOGY LTD. As an accomplished PHP senior engineer you will have a solid track record of designing highly scalable technology platforms.

We are a private company with a long history and a base of very well-known international blue chip clients, including Deutsche Bank, Santander, BNPP, Ford, Kia, Toyota, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Freshfields, and more. Our offices are in London and we focus on growth across production and sales teams.

Role Info

• Current Tech Includes: PHP, MySQL, Laravel
• Methodologies: Agile/Kanban, TDD/BDD, Continuous Integration and Delivery

Responsibilities

• Oversee the next phase of development of our REST APIs and provide a holistic view of the product offering.
• Work with our development team to design efficient and future proof features for individual products or features that interact across products.
• Assist in decision making for leading architectural decisions for tools and techniques, understanding the current architecture as it exists and for the future, and delivering the product roadmap.
• While main responsibility is the architecture of our systems, you will also be hands-on and develop part of the time when not designing new features.
• Ensure our systems are scalable to support both small and large clients and evaluate the case for a new tech stack where appropriate.

What Are The Role Requirements

• You will: Be the go-to technical authority for the backend API, from architecture through to delivery.
• Lead decision-making for architectural strategy, tools, and techniques.
• Ensure our API meets the needs of both our smallest and largest enterprise clients.
• Balance strategic architecture with hands-on development.
• Champion security, scalability, and maintainability at every stage.

Role Requirements

• 5 years of current, professional experience as a PHP Software Engineer.
• A strong understanding of software design patterns and principles.
• Experience with systems that process and handle large amounts of data.
• A strong understanding of cloud computing/distributed systems.
• Analysing existing systems and increasing efficiencies.
• Experience with highly scalable database platforms and have delivered Enterprise distributed cloud applications.
• A track record of delivering mission critical, enterprise cloud-based software/SaaS applications to budget and time.
• Proven ability to wear many hats, technical, operational, strategic, customer/client facing.
• Experience with developing robust and secure APIs to facilitate an ecosystem of apps and websites.
• Proven experience deploying, managing, and optimising SaaS applications on AWS, including EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and Lambda, ensuring scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Hands-on experience with AWS migration projects, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation), and integrating AWS services into automated CI/CD pipelines.
• A good understanding of modern web security standards and methodologies.
• Experience in background processing, queuing, scheduling and multithreading.

Technical Experience

• Language: PHP (8.2+), Javascript, HTML, CSS
• Frameworks: Laravel (or equivalent)
• Cloud services: Server and severless systems, object storage, logging, relational databases
• Database and Datastores: MySQL, Redis
• Operating system: Linux (Ubuntu)

Bonus Knowledge

• Apache server, message queue architecture
• Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP etc).
• Experience with microservicing large platforms.
• Experience with developing with websockets.
• Experience with building continuous integration pipelines (Jenkins, Docker and Kurbernetes).

Benefits

We are extremely ambitious, with bold targets designed to place us among the very best in our industry. As part of our team, you will have access to multiple career progression routes from people and leadership roles to product expertise and project management. The direction you take is yours to choose, and we will be on hand with the guidance and support you need to succeed. We offer a highly collaborative working environment, excellent support for career progression, and a strong commitment to developing our people.

Benefits Include

• Company pension scheme
• Gym membership
• Hybrid working (3 days a week in our Farringdon, London office)
• Vibrant location with a top-quality coffee shop next door and a bustling food market right outside

We are an equal opportunities employer. You must be eligible to work in the UK, hold a valid visa or UK residency, and be currently based in the UK. You must also be prepared to undergo high-level security clearance.

Salary: £65,000 +

Location: London