Mid-Level PHP Developer (Laravel) – Bury

Mid-Level PHP Developer (Laravel) – Bury, Manchester

We’re looking for a hands-on Mid-Level PHP Developer with solid experience building real features in Laravel, PHP, and SQL. You’ll be working on new product features, improving existing systems, and contributing to a collaborative engineering team where you can continue growing your skills.

What You’ll be working on

• Building new application features in Laravel
• Writing clean, maintainable PHP following modern standards
• Designing and optimising SQL queries using MySQL or other relational databases
• Working with Eloquent models, queues, jobs, events, and migrations
• Contributing to code reviews, improving test coverage, and supporting CI/CD
• Fixing and preventing performance issues (e.g., N+1 queries)
• Collaborating with designers and frontend developers (Vue/Inertia optional)

What we are looking for

Must-haves (non-negotiable):

• Commercial experience with Laravel + PHP
• Comfortable writing SQL queries (MySQL or similar)
• Experience delivering real features in a production environment

Nice-to-haves (NOT required):

• Vue.js / Inertia.js
• PHPUnit testing
• Docker
• API development
• CI/CD exposure

At Crown Oil, we value innovation and encourage our employees to explore new technologies and methodologies to improve workflows. If you are eager to take your career to the next level and contribute to a vibrant and collaborative team, we would love to hear from you.

We are an equal-opportunity employer

Diversity and inclusion are essential to us and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We value and actively seek out a richly diverse range of talent. Our policies ensure that every job applicant and employee is treated fairly and with equal opportunity to succeed.