Job Description

Junior PHP Developer

PCD270016
Location: Kent (100% office-based)
Type: Permanent (Full-time)
Rate/Salary: Competitive (depending on experience)
Start Date: ASAP
Eligibility: Must have the right to work in the UK (no sponsorship available)

A fast-growing ecommerce organisation is looking for a Junior PHP Developer to join its expanding in-house development team in Kent. This is a full-time, permanent role and is 100% office-based, offering a great opportunity for someone early in their development career to build hands-on commercial experience in a high-volume environment supporting both customer-facing journeys and business-critical internal systems.

In this role, you will help develop and maintain PHP web applications that sit at the heart of day-to-day operations. You’ll build new features and enhance existing functionality using a modern PHP framework such as CakePHP (or similar frameworks like Laravel). You’ll be expected to write clean, readable and maintainable code, troubleshoot and resolve bugs, and continuously improve system stability and performance as the business scales.

You will collaborate closely with other developers and wider stakeholders to design practical, scalable solutions, and you’ll take part in regular code reviews to learn from feedback and strengthen your engineering fundamentals. You’ll also gain exposure to best practices around version control and team delivery, contributing to a supportive environment where learning and growth are encouraged.

To be successful, you should have some hands-on experience with PHP and a framework such as CakePHP or Laravel, along with a solid understanding of MySQL and the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Familiarity with Git and common version control workflows is important, as is a proactive, problem-solving mindset, good communication, and strong attention to detail. You must have the right to work in the UK, and sponsorship is not available for this position.

The company offers a range of perks designed to make the working day enjoyable, including free breakfast, generous annual leave that increases with tenure, flexible hours and your birthday off, free EV charging and car washing, regular team socials and charity events, free products and a staff discount, a casual dress code with unlimited snacks and drinks, and a company pension.