Senior PHP Engineer at Lendable.co.uk — Profitable Fintech Unicorn

Join an 80-strong engineering team to scale Lendable's leading consumer finance products. You will own problems end-to-end, building and integrating APIs across a modern PHP 8 and Symfony stack. As an individual contributor, you'll drive technical decisions through design forums while supporting the company's high-growth expansion into the US market.

• Design, build, and integrate new APIs across lending platforms while tuning existing services for massive scale.
• Participate in frequent collaborative design forums to influence technical architecture and solve complex engineering challenges.
• Implement robust automated testing using Behat and PHPUnit to ensure high-quality delivery within a Domain-Driven Design architecture.

• Has 5+ years of commercial PHP experience with deep expertise in PHP 8.0+ and modern frameworks like Symfony.
• Demonstrates a strong grasp of Domain-Driven Design, message-driven systems, and microservices architecture in a product-led environment.
• Thrives in high-autonomy settings, making pragmatic technical trade-offs while maintaining a high degree of ownership over business-critical systems.

• Work at a profitable £3.5bn valuation unicorn backed by elite investors like Balderton Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
• Ship code daily using a world-class CI/CD pipeline featuring GitHub Actions and ArgoCD for continuous deployment to production on feature completion.
• Enjoy premium perks including in-house chefs preparing fresh daily lunches in Shoreditch, private health insurance, and a collaborative, low-ego engineering culture.