Brunning & Price
Software Developer

Are you a Laravel developer who enjoys building things properly, from the code itself through to the process around it? As well as being super organised? We'd love to hear from you.

A bit about us

Brunning & Price and Acorn Pubs look after around 90 pubs across England and Wales. We're known for good food, proper beer, bookshelves and dogs curled up under tables. Behind every one of those pubs sits a technology estate built largely in-house, and we're a hospitality business with a software team rather than a traditional IT department, which makes us a really interesting place to build your career.

The role

As we continue to grow, we're adding a senior developer to the team who can combine hands-on Laravel development with ownership of how we manage change, releases and secure coding practice across our products. It's a broad, hands-on role with real scope to shape how the team works as it grows.

You'll be involved in:

Building and maintaining our in-house Laravel applications, plus REST APIs and some iOS work

Owning release management and change control across our products, working closely with the rest of the team

Leading our secure development initiative: coding standards, tooling, threat modelling and vulnerability management

Translating requests from Operations, Finance, kitchens and Marketing into clear, well-sequenced work

Being the person our teams can rely on for a straightforward, plain-English answer

What we're looking for

Strong commercial Laravel/PHP experience

Experience owning change control, release management or delivery process

Practical application security knowledge (secure code review, dependency and secrets hygiene)

Comfortable with Git, CI/CD and cloud deployment, ideally AWS

Clear written English and good judgement on when to move fast and when to slow down

Nice to have

iOS development (Swift/SwiftUI), a security or delivery qualification, hospitality or multi-site experience, and experience coding with AI tools.

Who you'll be working with

You'll join a small, capable software team with a wide remit and very little bureaucracy, as well as room to grow as the team expands.

Your bread and butter

Basic salary: circa £50,000 basic Plus 10% discretionary company performance bonus

Bupa private medical insurance and Aviva life assurance

Annual Leave: 25 days + 8 bank holidays

Working pattern: hybrid, 2 to 3 days a week in our Chester head office

Benefits: Full benefits suite including Virtual GP, Wellbeing support, and matched employer pension.

Progression: a clear path to grow with the team

Crew discount: 30% discount at B&P and Acorn Pubs and Wagamama