Job Role: Principal Software Engineer (PHP)
Reference: BH-345p
Working Hours: 5 days per week
Job Type: Permanent
Permanent Salary: £100,000 to £120,000
Location: Fully Remote (UK)
About the Company:
Our client is a fast-growing fintech company, focused on reshaping consumer finance by utilising innovative technologies. They make financial services more accessible, efficient, and user-friendly. With significant growth in recent years, the company offers an exciting opportunity to work on impactful projects in a collaborative and ambitious team setting. Their engineering team, comprising over 120+ talented engineers, is passionate about building scalable solutions using modern technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement complex features that improve customer experience and system efficiency.
- Own full systems, taking responsibility for their evolution and performance.
- Identify and resolve technical issues as close to the source as possible for maximum impact.
- Engage in deep architectural discussions and contribute to the company’s technical strategy.
- Initiate projects, including bootstrapping the first implementation.
- Proactively identify gaps in existing systems/processes and propose solutions.
- Foster a high-performing team environment, working with diverse individuals.
- Provide technical leadership across teams, ensuring cross-team dependencies are well understood.
- Drive process improvements, aligning with company strategy and goals.
- Make data-driven decisions, prioritizing effectively—even in first-time situations.
- Mentor and support junior engineers, sharing knowledge and best practices.
- Take on some people management tasks, if required.
- Contribute to the company’s quarterly strategy, influencing technical direction.
Essential Experience:
- Strong, modern PHP development experience (PHP 8.0+ is a must).
- Expertise in Symfony or Laravel.
- Experience designing and building APIs and working with microservices.
- Strong automated testing skills (unit, integration, functional).
- Ability to make strategic technical decisions that align with business objectives.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think critically about system improvements.
- Experience working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional team.
- Good emotional intelligence, with the ability to mentor and work with diverse individuals.
- Ability to set short-term roadmaps while considering long-term product evolution.
Desirable Experience:
- Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Message-Driven Systems, and Event Sourcing.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud services, particularly AWS.
- Understanding of buy vs build trade-offs and architectural migration strategies.
- Prior involvement in OKR-driven environments.
- Experience working on high-scale, distributed systems.
Company’s Tech stack:
- Backend: PHP 8, Symfony, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Kafka
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
- CI/CD & Testing: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Behat, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium
Benefits:
- Competitive salary with performance-based incentives.
- A flexible working environment, including remote options.
- The opportunity to work on high-impact projects with a talented, supportive team.
- Ongoing professional development and access to cutting-edge technology.