Senior Full Stack Developer – PHP

Future

Senior Full Stack PHP Developer working on Future's flagship digital publishing platform. Collaborating with Tech Lead and developers to build and maintain applications while ensuring code quality and testing practices.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £50,000 - £55,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsJavaScriptLaravelPHPReactSymfonyTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain both new and existing applications.
Work directly with the Tech Lead and other developers.
Collaborate closely with the in-house Audience team to build systems that attract and retain users.
Build and consume robust APIs to connect the new creator platform with core internal services and AI moderation tools.
Write clean, strongly-typed code backed by comprehensive unit and integration tests.
Champion best practices in code reviews.
Contribute to the setup and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines and local development environments.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Solid experience with PHP-based backend services (whether that is Laravel or Symfony or another framework)
Strong experience building complex, dynamic web applications, with modern tools like TypeScript.
The ability to build performant, reusable UI components in modern JS frameworks like Alpine.js and React with tools like Tailwind.
Experience with (or a strong desire to learn) Temporal.io or similar orchestration frameworks to manage distributed systems and long-running processes.
Experience working with databases and marshaling data from various external APIs.
You are solution-oriented and understand that software is meant to solve real-world operational problems (e.g., automating manual finance work).
You care about the product you build and the people who use it. You care about and will actively shape UX, flows and features.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Uncapped leave, because we trust you to manage your workload and time
When we hit our targets, enjoy a share of our profits with a bonus
Refer a friend and get rewarded when they join Future
Well-being support with access to our Colleague Assistant Programmes
Opportunity to purchase shares in Future, with our Share Incentive Plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

PHPLaravelSymfonyTypeScriptAlpine.jsReactTailwindTemporal.ioAPIsdatabases

Soft Skills

solution-orientedcollaborationcode reviewsuser experienceproduct care