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Senior PHP Engineer

Lendable is a fintech unicorn making consumer finance faster, cheaper, and friendlier, offering loans, credit cards and car finance products.
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
501 - 1,000 Employees
5+ years of experience
Finance

Job Description

Lendable, a leading UK fintech unicorn with over 600 employees, is seeking a Senior PHP Engineer to join their engineering organization of 160+ professionals. The company, profitable since 2017 and backed by Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs, specializes in consumer finance products including loans, credit cards, and car finance.

As a Senior PHP Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in building and optimizing cutting-edge lending platforms, working with a modern tech stack including PHP 8, Symfony, AWS, and PostgreSQL. The position offers significant opportunity to impact the company's technical direction through architectural discussions and innovative solution development.

The role spans across various product teams including Zable Card, Autolend, Lendable Loans, and Internal Tools, providing diverse exposure to different aspects of the business. You'll be working in a highly collaborative environment with a focus on quality code and automated testing.

Lendable offers an attractive compensation package including equity, flexible hybrid working arrangements (WFH Monday and Friday), and a well-equipped office in Shoreditch, London. The company maintains a strong focus on work-life balance and employee wellbeing, providing private health insurance and other benefits.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience with modern PHP development, framework expertise (Symfony/Laravel), and a solid understanding of domain-driven design and microservices architecture. This role presents an excellent opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK while working with cutting-edge technology and exceptional colleagues.

Last updated 12 hours ago

Responsibilities For Senior PHP Engineer

  • Build and integrate new APIs to enhance customer journey
  • Optimize lending platforms
  • Participate in architectural discussions
  • Work across product teams (Zable Card, Autolend, Lendable Loans, and Internal Tools)
  • Contribute to maintaining and improving the backend infrastructure

Requirements For Senior PHP Engineer

PHP
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
Kubernetes
  • Strong experience with modern PHP development (PHP 8.0+)
  • Experience with Symfony or Laravel framework
  • Experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems, and Event Sourcing (preferred)
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture and financial systems (bonus)
  • Excellent automated testing skills (unit, integration, functional)
  • High degree of ownership and autonomy
  • Experience in a cross-functional environment (preferred)

Benefits For Senior PHP Engineer

Medical Insurance
Equity
  • Best-in-class compensation including equity
  • Hybrid work model (WFH Monday and Friday)
  • Fully stocked kitchen (Tuesday-Thursday)
  • Private health insurance
  • Modern office in Shoreditch, London

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