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. We operate as an independent recruitment agency with over 20 years of experience supporting clients and candidates across the UK. Due to a high volume of applications, we may not be able to provide feedback to every candidate; if you do not hear from us within 48 hours, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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