Senior Full Stack PHP Developer - Vanilla Platform

About this role

### What you'll be doing

We are looking for a talented Senior Full Stack PHP Developer to join the "Vanilla Platform” team, responsible for building Future's flagship digital publishing platform.

In this role, you will work directly with the Tech Lead and other developers to build and maintain both new and existing applications. You will be responsible for working on a proven platform that delivers thousands of pages per second to hundreds-of-millions of people.

You will primarily be hands-on in a modern application utilising PHP, Alpine.js, TailwindCSS, Twig, while also contributing to services built with Laravel,

About the Department

The Technology & Engineering department at Future offers a collaborative, collegiate environment where the primary focus is on effective but well-engineered and scalable solutions. We look to answer critical business challenges posed both by our product and commercial teams as well as from within the department.

Our focus is on quality in all aspects of our systems, not only in function but also in terms of test coverage, observability, alerting, and documentation. We run regular hack days and have a strong focus on best practices led by tech-based guilds.

Key Responsibilities

• **SEO & GEO:** Working with our in-house Audience team to build systems that will attract new users to the platform and retain them
• **API Integration:** Build and consume robust APIs to connect the new creator platform with core internal services (Identity, Asset Management, Content APIs) and AI moderation tools.
• **Code Quality & Testing:** Write clean, strongly-typed code backed by comprehensive unit and integration tests. Champion best practices in code reviews.
• **DevOps & CI/CD:** Contribute to the setup and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines and local development environments (containers), ensuring rapid and reliable deployment.
• **Collaboration:** Work closely with the Tech Lead and product stakeholders to refine requirements, e...