📍 Northampton (Hybrid – 1 day per week in the office)
💰 £47,000 – £58,000
Our client a fast-growing SaaS fintech business in Northampton is undertaking a major platform rebuild, re-engineering a 15-year-old white-label SaaS product onto a modern Laravel architecture.
This role sits at the centre of that transformation — extracting legacy domain logic and rebuilding it into a clean, modular Laravel platform with a modern API-first architecture. You will be involved in domain extraction, service-layer design, API architecture, and rebuilding a production SaaS platform used by financial services organisations.
Key Technologies / Skills
PHP • Laravel • REST APIs • OpenAPI / Swagger • MySQL • Relational Database Design • Service Layer Architecture • Domain Driven Design • API Versioning • Modular Architecture • Git • Automated Testing • Backend Engineering • SaaS Platforms
Bonus Experience:
React • Inertia.js • CI/CD • Microservices Architecture • Legacy Platform Migration • Software Refactoring • Scalable Web Applications
What You'll Be Doing
• Rebuilding core domain logic from legacy PHP into clean Laravel services
• Designing modular service-layer architecture for long-term scalability
• Building OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs with versioning, documentation and clear contracts
• Refactoring and modernising a 15-year legacy database schema
• Identifying and eliminating legacy anti-patterns in the existing platform
• Writing clean, testable business logic with strong test coverage
• Collaborating on architecture decisions and technical standards
• Working closely with the design and frontend team to deliver APIs powering a React + Inertia admin platform
Ideal Background
• 5+ years PHP development experience
• Expert Laravel development experience (3+ years)
• Experience refactoring or migrating legacy systems
• Comfortable designing service layers and modular domain architecture
• Strong understanding of relational databases and legacy schemas
• Experience designing APIs used by external clients or third parties
• Pragmatic engineer who understands when to refactor and when to ship
Why Join
• Major SaaS platform re-architecture project
• Opportunity to build modern Laravel architecture from the ground up
• Work on software used across the financial services ecosystem
• Hybrid working – only 1 day per week in the Northampton office
• Join a scaling product-led technology company
Apply now with a word Cv, for immediate interview. Please note we are unable to sponsor any VISA applications
Salary description
£40000.00 - £58000.00 per year