Intelli-Park
PHP/ Laravel Developer

Intelli-Park Group is a technology-led parking management business. We bring together established brands and a growing product stack to make parking work better for landowners, operators and the millions of drivers who use our sites every year. We are backed by private equity investment and growing at pace, which means real scope to shape how we build, run and improve our products.

PHP/ Laravel Developer

Job title: PHP / Laravel Developer

Department: Software Engineering

Reports to: Jamie Lamb, Lead Software Developer

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Location: Hybrid (Mostly Remote, but needs to be able to attend the office in Kettering, London or High Wycombe upon request)

Salary: £45,000 to £55,000, depending on experience

What You Will Be Doing

Feature development

Design, build and release substantial features on TotalPark.cloud end to end, from scoping with the Lead Software Developer through to production

Take ownership of significant workstreams, including payments and multi-operator support, and new capability for the residential sector

Build and maintain integrations with ANPR providers, payment platforms and other third-party services

Platform quality and support

Investigate and resolve live issues during UK business hours, working with support and operations colleagues

Write automated tests for every change and help keep the test suite reliable

Help move the codebase from large controllers and models towards well-tested service classes, refactoring safely as you go

Review code and contribute to technical and architectural decisions

Working with the team

Work alongside the Intelli-Park Vietnam team on shared workstreams, including reviewing and integrating their work

Provide engineering cover for the Lead Software Developer during absence

Contribute to technical documentation and help keep the Jira backlog accurate and well prioritised

Support maintenance of ANPR Ninja as needed

What You Will Bring

Essential

Commercial experience building and maintaining production applications in PHP and Laravel, typically three years or more

Strong MySQL skills, including schema design, migrations and query performance

Experience writing automated tests, using PHPUnit or similar, as a normal part of how you work

Confidence working in a mature, live codebase: reading unfamiliar code, understanding why it works the way it does, and changing it safely

Experience integrating third-party APIs and handling webhooks reliably

Working knowledge of queues, scheduled jobs and background processing in Laravel

Comfortable with Git, pull request reviews and an issue tracker such as Jira

The ability to own work independently and explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical colleagues

Desirable

Experience with Stripe, particularly Laravel Cashier or Stripe Connect

Experience of multi-tenant SaaS platforms

Frontend experience with Blade and JavaScript

Experience with managed Laravel hosting and CI/CD pipelines, for example Laravel Cloud and GitHub Actions

Familiarity with parking, ANPR, permits or access control technology

Experience working with distributed or offshore development teams

Awareness of accessibility (WCAG), multilingual applications or security standards such as Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO 27001