Job Description

Manchester (3 Days Office / 2 Days WFH)
Salary: Excellent + Benefits

Mediablanket is one of the UK’s fastest-growing fintech groups, expanding rapidly into new territories and sectors. We build high-performance platforms across finance, telecoms, gaming, and data — and we’re now looking for a strong Senior Laravel Developer to join our engineering team at a pivotal stage of growth.

This is a role for someone who takes ownership, cares about clean architecture, and wants to help shape real products used by thousands of customers daily.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading backend development across multiple products using Laravel
• Designing, building, and maintaining complex APIs, microservices, and integrations
• Working closely with the CTO to plan and architect new features and systems
• Owning database structures, optimisation, and performance tuning
• Collaborating with designers and front-end developers to deliver seamless user experiences
• Ensuring applications meet high standards of scalability, security, and reliability
• Overseeing hosting environments (Plesk, cPanel, AWS) and recommending improvements
• Reviewing code, mentoring junior devs, and helping to raise engineering standards across the team

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years’ experience in PHP, with deep knowledge of Laravel
• Strong database and API development experience
• Solid front-end understanding (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). React or Livewire experience is a bonuss
• Hands-on experience with AWS and deployment pipelines
• Strong Git/version control experience and familiarity with modern DevOps workflows
• Excellent problem-solving ability and a passion for writing well-structured, maintainable code
• Someone who enjoys collaboration, communicates clearly, and thrives in a fast-paced environment

What’s On Offer

• Excellent salary DOE
• Private healthcare
• PerkBox
• Annual bonus scheme
• Training support and continuous professional development
• Clear career progression in a fast-growing, ambitious tech team
• Hybrid working (3 office days, 2 WFH)
• Modern Manchester office space
• Regular team socials and a genuinely collaborative, supportive culture

What’s On Offer

If you love clean code, enjoy solving complex problems, and want to join a passionate engineering team building products at scale — we’d love to hear from you.