Mid-Level Developer

We are partnering with a highly successful, well-established finance-sector organisation based in Borehamwood. Following continued year-on-year growth, the organisation is seeking a Mid-Level Full Stack Developer for its small, collaborative in-house technology team. This office-based role offers the opportunity to take ownership of work and contribute to the continued development of business-critical platforms supporting customer and partner journeys, administration processes, reporting and internal dashboards.

Requirements

• Approximately 3–5 years of experience as a developer
• PHP and Laravel 8+, including Eloquent, migrations, queues, events and Blade
• Vue 3, including single-file components, Composition or Options API, and component state
• MySQL, including experience writing non-trivial queries and understanding indexes and query performance
• Experience consuming, integrating and debugging third-party REST APIs and webhooks
• Git, branch-based development and code review
• Careful handling of live production systems and sensitive data
• A thorough, verify-before-you-ship approach to development
• Desirable: Tailwind CSS and component libraries such as shadcn or Reka UI
• Desirable: Data visualisation tools such as ECharts, Chart.js or D3
• Desirable: Vite or legacy webpack/Laravel Mix
• Desirable: Redis, AWS (S3, Cognito) or Azure SQL
• Desirable: PHPUnit or Pest, including experience writing and maintaining automated tests

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain our core business platforms and reporting applications across the Laravel backend and Vue front end
• Own features from initial development through to deployment
• Deliver features, enhancements and fixes across core business workflows, customer-facing dashboards, document generation and partner journeys
• Develop reporting dashboards in our Vite/Vue reporting application, from data queries through to charts, tables and user-facing functionality
• Build and maintain queue jobs, background reporting processes, and PDF and Excel generation
• Work with third-party integrations and external APIs
• Help increase automated test coverage and improve the front-end build
• Work closely with colleagues and the people who use our systems day to day
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of our mature, business-critical codebase