Senior PHP Software Engineer - Spectrum IT Recruitment : Job Details

We're looking for a dynamic Senior PHP Software Engineer to lead our rapidly growing development team and drive productivity as we expand our operations internationally.

We are one of the fastest growing E-Commerce startups in the world reaching profitability in Q4 last year and over 150 million in annual turnover. We're on a mission to conquer the E-Commerce market with our sights set on the taking sizeable market share from the biggest names in the industry. Having already hit profitability, strong cash reserves in the bank and further VC backing behind us now is the time to go bigger than ever before. We're aiming to expand our operations to over 100 countries internationally in the next few years with technology at the core of everything we do.

We currently have 8 agile sprint teams in our development department each made up on a PHP team lead, 2x Snr BE engineers, 1x Snr FE engineer, 1x QA, 1x Product manager. We are in the process of adding 6 more teams as part of our expansion. We need talented senior PHP Software engineers to join our team. Your role will be hands on software engineering ensuring high quality coding standards whilst delivering key projects on-time.

Responsibilities:

• Write clean, quality, reliable PHP code
• Act as a senior engineer within the team conducting code reviews of other developers code
• Promote good development practices within your sprint team (TDD, Unit Testing, SOLID)
• Ensure key projects are delivered on time

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of PHP Software engineering & highly skilled in writing good quality PHP code
• Experience mentoring and/or managing more junior developers and conducting code reviews
• Experience within a high paced, growth mindset business
• Ability to managing the delicate balance of coding standards vs key deadlines
• A get it done mentality and comfortable working to tight deadlines
• Passion and drive to grow a business not just work a 9-5

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience in the E-Commerce industry
• Familiarity with launching services in new markets/countries

Why Join Us:

• Be part of an ambitious and high growth startup with huge potential
• Have skin in the game with a share scheme that makes every bit of growth the business achieves benefit you directly
• Up to £60,000 per annum + highly valuable share options
• Fully remote working environment (CANDIDATES MUST BE UK BASED)

How to Apply: Please send your resume and a brief cover letter detailing your experience and interest in the role to or call

Join us in taking over the E-Commerce industry

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.