Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

Langley Marish
2 days ago
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Permanent full time

Build software used by thousands. Influence technical direction. Mentor others.

IRIS is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies and a major European provider of payroll and HR solutions. We’re now looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Dataplan team.

This is a hands on senior role combining deep technical contribution with delivery ownership and mentoring responsibility.

You’ll help shape and scale a cloud-based payroll and HR platform serving thousands of customers.

The Role

You’ll spend the majority of your time writing high quality code while also:

  • Driving end-to-end feature delivery

  • Partnering with Product on roadmap and prioritisation

  • Mentoring and supporting junior engineers

  • Leading best practice adoption (testing, CI/CD, observability)

  • Contributing to architectural decisions

  • Managing technical debt and platform health

  • Supporting incident resolution and continuous improvement

    Our Tech Stack

    Core:

  • PHP (Laravel)

  • ReactJS

  • JavaScript

  • Relational databases

  • Kubernetes

  • Docker

  • Linux

    Desirable:

  • React Native

  • MariaDB

  • Jenkins

  • GitLab

    About You

  • 5+ years’ experience in software engineering

  • Strong experience building and shipping scalable web applications

  • Comfortable in Agile environments with sprint-based delivery

  • Strong knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps principles

  • Experience supporting production systems

  • Passion for mentoring and raising engineering standards

    Bonus points for experience in regulated sectors (finance, health, govtech) or working with AI tools to improve engineering productivity.

    What You’ll Get

  • Opportunity to influence technical direction

  • Exposure to enterprise scale systems

  • Clear progression opportunities

    If you’re a senior engineer who enjoys owning delivery, shaping solutions, and developing others — we’d love to hear from you.

    Please note:

    We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible

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