Software Engineer - PHP Laravel

Big Red Recruitment
Ec4A2Ea, EC4A 2EA, United Kingdom
Last week
£45,000 – £55,000 pa

Salary

£45,000 – £55,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
18 May 2026 (Last week)
PHP Developers - frustrated by the lack of autonomy in your current role?

You'll join as the first internal developer for a cyber security consultancy working with major organisations across critical infrastructure, transport, financial services, and public sector environments.

You’ll take ownership of all internal development tasks and processes. Helping shape their customer-facing dashboard platform, implement best practice, and liaise with business stakeholders to gether requirements and help build solutions to meet the business's needs.

The environment is highly collaborative, technically advanced, and ideal for someone who enjoys solving real-world problems through software engineering.

You’ll be working directly with cyber security specialists and stakeholders across the business to identify opportunities for new tooling, automation, and innovation.

What you’ll be doing:
  • Developing applications using PHP and Laravel
  • Building API integrations across multiple systems
  • Creating customer-facing dashboards and reporting tools
  • Exploring AI-assisted development approaches
  • Helping shape bespoke software solutions across the business
  • Taking ownership of projects from concept through to delivery
Technical experience required:
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • SQL
  • Python
  • REST APIs
The role is based in central London 1 day per week with a salary banding of £45k-£55k.

If this sounds like the next role for you, click apply now as we have interview slots available!

*NB* Due to the nature of the clients industry and environment, all applicants must hold permanent residency in the UK (British Citizenship or ILR/Settled Status). Unfortunately, candidates applying without this cannot be considered.

We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.
We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters.

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