PHP Engineer

About Lendable Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start: One of the UK’s most exciting unicorns with a team of over 800 people Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK Profitable since 2017 Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot ) So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance . We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes. Join us if you want to Take ownership: you are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1 Work in small teams of exceptional people: Lendies are relentlessly resourceful. We challenge the status quo to solve problems and find smarter solutions Build the best technology in-house : we use new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting About the role We're looking for a Mid level PHP Engineer to join our US Loans team! Our engineering organisation is home to over 200 talented engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and platform disciplines. You'll be working on a new product we're building within our existing US Loans team. It's built on our established lending platform and codebase, so you'll help shape something new while working alongside experienced engineers who know the domain and the systems well. You'll have the opportunity to work on everything from building and integrating new APIs to enhance the customer journey, to optimising our lending platforms, and engaging in deep architectural discussions. There's plenty to tackle, and we're excited to find the right people to take on the challenge. What we’re looking for Essential 3+ years of experience A strong, business-oriented engineer with modern PHP development experience (PHP 8.0+ is a must) High degree of ownership and autonomy A good understanding of a modern PHP framework like Symfony or Laravel Strong automated testing skills (unit, integration, functional, Behat) A keen desire to learn and contribute to a highly collaborative team Experience with Domain Driven Design Desirable Experience working on financial systems Experience with Message-Driven Systems and Event Sourcing Our Tech Stack We believe in using the right tools for the job, and our stack reflects our commitment to modern, efficient development: Backend: PHP 8, Symfony 7, AWS, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes CI/CD: GitHub Actions and ArgoCD (we deploy to production as soon as a feature is complete!) Testing: