Love2shop

About the Company

Love2shop is the UK's #1 multi-store gift card brand and home to many of the country’s most-loved gifting and reward products. Love2shop is a leading UK employee and customer engagement company. It's Love2shop gift cards and voucher offer a fantastic choice of multi-retailer gifting rewards, helping businesses attract and retain employees and customers. With its award-winning digital platform, Love2shop enables clients to plan, launch, communicate and maintain incentive or reward programs with minimal effort while delivering performance improvement. Love2shop is a trading name of Park Retail Limited. (Part of the PayPoint group) Registered Office: (Reg. No. 00402152) of Valley Road, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41 7ED. Registered in England and Wales.Head Office: Love2shop, Floor 4, 20 Chapel Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 9AG

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Company Name

Love2shop

Job Title

PHP Software Engineer

Job Description

Job title: PHP Software Engineer Role Summary: Dynamic full‑stack PHP engineer responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying secure, high‑performance features within an agile fulfillment product team. Focus on clean code, SOLID principles, and continuous improvement of development practices. Expectations: - Deliver quality code on time with minimal supervision. - Contribute throughout the software development lifecycle. - Participate in on‑site visits (weekly) and out‑of‑hours production support. Key Responsibilities: - Develop scalable, maintainable PHP 8+ solutions using Laravel (10/11/12). - Write clean, well‑documented code that meets functional and non‑functional requirements. - Contribute to feature conception, design, and implementation, emphasizing security best practices. - Conduct code reviews, share knowledge, and help raise team standards. - Identify and communicate project risks; propose mitigation strategies. - Support production systems, including incident handling and out‑of‑hours rotation. - Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to drive continuous process and tool improvement. Required Skills: - 2–3 years professional software engineering experience. - Expertise in PHP 8+ and Laravel 10/11/12. - Strong OOP and SOLID/Clean‑Code principles. - JavaScript ES6+ with VueJS 2/3 and TypeScript. - Experience with MySQL (5.7/8.x) and Redis. - Test‑Driven Development using PHPUnit and mocking frameworks. - REST/SOAP API design and consumption. - Git source control; CI/CD with GitHub Actions or CircleCI. - Agile methodology knowledge (Scrum, Kanban). - AWS services (EC2, SQS, RDS, ElastiCache) proficiency. Additional Desired Skills (not mandatory): - Event‑driven architecture, message queues (Laravel Horizon, SQS). - Containerization and Kubernetes. - Microservices / SOA. - Front‑end techs: HTML, CSS, SaSS, TailwindCSS. - Testing tools: Cypress, Selenium. - NoSQL (DynamoDB). - DevSecOps & IaC practices. - PCI‑DSS experience. Required Education & Certifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, Laravel certification) are a plus.

Liverpool, United kingdom

Hybrid

Junior

24-11-2025