Senior PHP Software Developer – City London

• Job Reference: NJ0099

• Date Posted: 14 May 2026

• Recruiter: Nexus Jobs

• Location: City London

• Salary: £45,000 to £60,000

• Sector: I.T. & Communications

• Job Type: Permanent

• Work Hours: Full Time

• Contact: Jas Gujral

• Email: [email protected]

• Telephone: 020 7488 6900

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Job Description

Senior PHP Software Developer – City London

The ideal candidate will have sound 5 to 10 years proven commercial experience with developing software with PHP and MySQL.

Must have experience of working on a Linux server with good experience of database optimisation and caching technologies, such as Memcached, Redis or Varnish.

Will also need to be comfortable working with back-end business logic and have experience of best-practice front-end development, using jQuery.

Based in Central London uou will be working on the development of a high-end, scalable e-commerce retail platform.

What You Need to bring to the table for this position:

At Least 5+ years of Commercial Experience and Knowledge of:

PHP

MySQL, including database optimization

LAMP

Linux

MVC, ORM

HTML

CSS/XHTML

JQuery

Caching Technologies, such as Memcached, Redis or Varnish

Ability to work independently or as part of a team and operate to tight deadlines

Sense of humour please

Advantageous But Not a Must:

Great knowledge of Apache, specifically Mod Rewrite

Good working knowledge of Linux, including command line

Server administration experience

Ecommerce experience

Smarty

Competitive Salary

Career Growth and Financial Stability

Excellent Benefits: Opportunity to work up to 3 days a week from home

The salary for this role will be in the range £45K - £60K.

Please send your CV to us in Word format.