Senior PHP Backend Engineer

Join our Fitness & Wellbeing vertical as a Senior PHP Backend Engineer in the United Kingdom to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every conversation we have, every code line we write and every interface we design is another opportunity for us to enrich our customers’ experiences.

You’ll join our Fitness & Wellbeing vertical where we’ve recently brought together our Boutique Wellness and Health & Fitness business to form a single, global vertical that serves clients around the globe in key markets like the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.  We have market-leading software products like Xplor Gym (Membr), Mariana Tek, TrueCoach, Clubware, Resamania and Xplor Recreation designed to help our clients manage and grow their business.  

Reporting into the Manager of Software Engineering, you'll help design, build, and scale the next generation of our platform. You’ll work with a supportive, cross-functional team to solve real-world problems and shape the architecture of our backend services.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys writing clean, maintainable code and is ready to contribute to important architectural decisions — particularly as we move key components out of our monolith and into standalone services.

Some of the other responsibilities include :

• Develop scalable backend services using PHP (Symfony or Laravel).
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs consumed by our web and mobile apps.
• Help lead the architectural design of new services as we evolve toward a service-oriented architecture.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers in two-week agile sprints.
• Contribute to planning, code reviews, and pull requests.
• Write tests and support CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket and GitHub.
• Take part in our greenfield re-architecture of the payments integration, moving it into a standalone, event-driven service.

This position is a UK Remote role, with a preference for candidates based in the Manchester area, where our Xplor Gym (Membr) office is located.