PHP Developer

Full-time, Permanent

Basingstoke (hybrid)

£40,000 - £55,000

About the role

We’re looking for a skilled and motivated IT Systems Developer to join our growing tech team at Reassured.

You’ll be working on our internal CRM systems, building new functionality and evolving existing features to support a fast-moving, high-growth business.

As part of a collaborative Scrum team, you’ll contribute to planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives while delivering clean, scalable software that has real impact across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Developing and maintaining internal CRM and backend systems
• Delivering features end to end, from design through to deployment
• Enhancing and modernising existing applications, including legacy systems
• Collaborating with developers, QA, BA and DevOps to meet business needs
• Writing clean, maintainable and well-structured code
• Supporting testing, CI/CD pipelines and code reviews
• Identifying improvements and helping to reduce technical debt
• Troubleshooting and resolving software issues

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years’ experience in PHP development
• Experience with PHP 7.4 (CakePHP) and PHP 8+ (Laravel or Symfony)
• Experience building and maintaining backend systems and APIs
• Strong understanding of MySQL, including queries, indexing and performance
• Solid understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5 and CSS
• Experience using Git, including GitLab workflows, branching and pull requests
• Familiarity with Docker in WSL or Linux environments
• Experience with unit testing and automated testing approaches

Nice to have

• Vue.js or Nuxt and modern frontend tooling
• Tailwind or other modern CSS frameworks
• Azure Cloud services
• MongoDB or Azure Cosmos DB
• CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab pipelines
• Messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus
• Microservices or event-driven architectures

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have a strong technical mindset and attention to detail
• Understand security best practices such as OWASP and coding principles like SOLID
• Enjoy working collaboratively in an Agile team
• Are organised, analytical and solution-focused
• Are curious and motivated to keep learning and improving

Why join us?

At Reassured, we’re passionate about building smart, secure, and scalable systems that support our customers and our people. If you’re looking for a role where your work has real impact and you enjoy working in a supportive, fast-moving environment we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits include:

• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Medical cash plan
• Virtual GP
• Enhanced annual leave with length of service
• Death in service (3x your basic salary)
• Free parking
• Career mobility
• Referral scheme (up to £2,400 a year per referral)
• Incentives, including annual trips abroad

If you’re a developer who enjoys building impactful systems, solving real-world problems and working in a fast-paced team we’d love to hear from you!