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Senior Software Engineer

Synchro

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
Remote position
Posted yesterday

Description

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Remote

Day Rate: £600.00 - £700.00 (Outside IR35)

Contract Duration: 6 Months

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer for a client in the e-commerce space, you will be responsible for the tech behind everything from scheduling and image handling to order fulfilment and digital delivery.

You will initially need to be onsite for 3-4 days during the first week and from then on this is a remote working position for 3 or 4 days a week on a contract basis for 6 months.

This is a hands-on role involving system maintenance, strategic modernisation, and long-term planning. You will be working with a PHP 8.1 codebase on AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3), supporting a large-scale, business-critical web admin system with a high number of database tables, image processing integrations, and advanced security and backup systems.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own daily operations of a custom-built web platform
  • Plan and implement modernisation efforts without disrupting live services
  • Introduce automated testing and CI/CD workflows
  • Improve system documentation and knowledge sharing
  • Ensure secure and reliable data handling (GDPR-compliant)

Key Skills:

  • 5+ years in software engineering, ideally with PHP and MySQL/MariaDB
  • Strong AWS experience (EC2, RDS, S3)
  • Comfortable working with legacy and bespoke systems
  • Skilled in security, backup systems, and performance optimisation
  • Self-driven, organised, and comfortable taking ownership
  • Background in e-commerce or systems handling sensitive data
  • Strong grasp of CI/CD, Git, and documentation processes