PHP/ Laravel Developer

Intelli-Park Group is a technology-led parking management business. We bring together established brands and a growing product stack to make parking work better for landowners, operators and the millions of drivers who use our sites every year. We are backed by private equity investment and growing at pace, which means real scope to shape how we build, run and improve our products.​​

PHP/ Laravel Developer

• Job title: PHP / Laravel Developer

• Department: Software Engineering

• Reports to: Jamie Lamb, Lead Software Developer

• Contract: Permanent, full-time

• Location: Hybrid (Mostly Remote, but needs to be able to attend the office in Kettering, London or High Wycombe upon request)

• Salary: £45,000 to £55,000, depending on experience

What You Will Be Doing

Feature development

• Design, build and release substantial features on TotalPark.cloud end to end, from scoping with the Lead Software Developer through to production
• Take ownership of significant workstreams, including payments and multi-operator support, and new capability for the residential sector
• Build and maintain integrations with ANPR providers, payment platforms and other third-party services

  Platform quality and support

• Investigate and resolve live issues during UK business hours, working with support and operations colleagues
• Write automated tests for every change and help keep the test suite reliable
• Help move the codebase from large controllers and models towards well-tested service classes, refactoring safely as you go
• Review code and contribute to technical and architectural decisions

  Working with the team

• Work alongside the Intelli-Park Vietnam team on shared workstreams, including reviewing and integrating their work
• Provide engineering cover for the Lead Software Developer during absence
• Contribute to technical documentation and help keep the Jira backlog accurate and well prioritised
• Support maintenance of ANPR Ninja as needed

  What You Will Bring

  Essential

• Commercial experience building and maintaining production applications in PHP and Laravel, typically three years or more
• Strong MySQL skills, including schema design, migrations and query performance
• Experience writing automated tests, using PHPUnit or similar, as a normal part of how you work
• Confidence working in a mature, live codebase: reading unfamiliar code, understanding why it works the way it does, and changing it safely
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and handling webhooks reliably
• Working knowledge of queues, scheduled jobs and background processing in Laravel
• Comfortable with Git, pull request reviews and an issue tracker such as Jira
• The ability to own work independently and explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical colleagues

  Desirable

• Experience with Stripe, particularly Laravel Cashier or Stripe Connect
• Experience of multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Frontend experience with Blade and JavaScript
• Experience with managed Laravel hosting and CI/CD pipelines, for example Laravel Cloud and GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with parking, ANPR, permits or access control technology
• Experience working with distributed or offshore development teams
• Awareness of accessibility (WCAG), multilingual applications or security standards such as Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO 27001