Mumsnet is the UK's largest website for parents, dedicated to making their lives easier through supportive communities, trusted content, and innovative tools. We’ve been around for 25 years making our forums among the busiest in Europe, providing around-the-clock support and community. We're purpose-driven, placing the well-being of parents at the heart of everything we do and we're committed to sustainable growth, flexibility, and fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive and have fun.
We're looking for a Senior PHP Developer to join our talented, collaborative technology team. You'll play a pivotal role in developing new features, maintaining our high-traffic platform, and continually enhancing our user experience. You’ll collaborate closely with our product team, influence architectural decisions, and contribute to our agile development processes.
We’ve fully transitioned from legacy Rails and Java applications to a modern Laravel 11 stack, utilising PHP 8.2, Alpine.js, Vue, Inertia, Livewire, and Tailwind CSS. Our infrastructure leverages AWS, Aurora RDS, Redis, DynamoDB, and Soketi, managed through Laravel Forge, Envoyer, and Horizon. We actively encourage experimenting with emerging technologies to continuously enhance our platform.
£65,000 - £75,000 per annum + discretionary bonus + EMI options scheme
London HQ (Hybrid) - ~2 office days per week
If you're excited about building software that positively impacts millions of parents, we’d love to hear from you.
Want to find out what it's like to work at Mumsnet? Read about our mission, our vision, our values and the behaviours we expect of the people who work at Mumsnet.
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Who we areMumsnet is the UK’s biggest website for parents, and our purpose is to make their lives easier. We’ve got some of the busiest forums in Europe, with users offering each other advice and support 24/7 (as well as more content, bloggers, videos, events and campaigns than you can shake a rattle at). We want to be indispensably useful for parents, and a great place to work. Why work for us?We’ve grown steadily and sustainably over the last 18-odd years and we’ve got every intention of carrying on. We’re building a high-performance, collaborative and agile work environment. We believe that mistakes are human, but learning is divine. We put purpose before profits, we’re committed to diversity and equality, and our computers - metaphorically speaking - say 'YES'. We don't only want to hire the best people: we want to retain them. If you need some flexibility, let us know and we’ll do our best. View our equality and diversity policy - http://www.mumsnet.com/info/diversity-and-equality-policy, our improved parental leave policies and read about how we’re empowering our staff by offering flexible training and development via Linkedin Learning - https://learning.linkedin.com/content/dam/me/learning/en-us/case-studies/case-study-mumsnet.pdf. We are also proud to be a London Living Wage employer.We host sandwich lunches, staff parties and knowledge sessions; we have a choir, a book club and a football team; and we have our own yoga studio while remaining tolerant of the Lycra-averse. Working for Mumsnet means never having to pretend you don’t have a family (or other commitments) and we promise never to keep you away from the school sports day. Where we areWe’re based in sunny Kentish Town, where you’re never more than 500 metres away from a sourdough pizza and an elaborately refurbished pub. Want to know more?Introducing Mumsnet: Our Culture - our new guide to what it's like to work at Mumsnet. Read about our mission, our vision, our values and the behaviours we expect of the people who work at Mumsnet.
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