Overview Lavanda is a B2B software company. We've developed an award-winning, best-in-class SaaS platform that enables Multifamily and Student accommodation operators to optimise their portfolios with a comprehensive short and medium-term rental solution. Our software toolkit enables partners to tap into the full spectrum of rental demand across their portfolios, whilst powering a range of management solutions to suit their evolving needs: fully-outsourced operations or in-house management. Having raised a total of £15m+ to date, we're backed by leading VC investors and are now scaling the business globally. The Opportunity We are looking for a seasoned Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our engineering team. This role requires a deep understanding of both front-end and back-end development, with a strong focus on Ruby and Node.js technologies. This role is quite unique in that you would be working as a part of our Acceleration team that is about empowering the product teams by building out libraries, setting up systems, and creating frameworks. In this role, you would be working alongside a Backend Engineer, and a DevOps. Responsibilities Design and develop scalable, robust, and high-performance web applications using Ruby, Node.js, and other relevant technologies. Work on both server-side and client-side code, delivering end-to-end functionality. Collaborate with UI/UX designers to implement and refine dynamic user experiences. Integrate data from various back-end services and databases. Create and maintain software documentation. Lead code reviews, mentor junior developers, and ensure software quality and best practices. Participate in all phases of the agile development cycle, from concept development to deployment and maintenance. Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems. Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Required Skills & Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Minimum of 5 years of experience as a fullstack developer with significant experience in Ruby and Node.js. Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks. Expertise in developing RESTful APIs. Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and non-relational databases like MongoDB. Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and frameworks such as React or AngularJS). Strong understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git. Excellent problem-solving abilities and ability to perform in a team environment. Strong communication skills and proficiency in English. Preferred Skills Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Familiarity with container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Knowledge of additional programming languages such as Python or PHP. Benefits Competitive salary + potential for equity. Flexible working is actively embraced + remote first Choose your own tech - get the equipment you love using at work. Personal Development budget, courses and plans tailored to you and your role Generous holiday allowance, including the full Christmas to New Year as a break on us. Join a highly motivated, engaged team of extremely smart, creative and talented people.
Jan 20, 2026
Full time
Overview Lavanda is a B2B software company. We've developed an award-winning, best-in-class SaaS platform that enables Multifamily and Student accommodation operators to optimise their portfolios with a comprehensive short and medium-term rental solution. Our software toolkit enables partners to tap into the full spectrum of rental demand across their portfolios, whilst powering a range of management solutions to suit their evolving needs: fully-outsourced operations or in-house management. Having raised a total of £15m+ to date, we're backed by leading VC investors and are now scaling the business globally. The Opportunity We are looking for a seasoned Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our engineering team. This role requires a deep understanding of both front-end and back-end development, with a strong focus on Ruby and Node.js technologies. This role is quite unique in that you would be working as a part of our Acceleration team that is about empowering the product teams by building out libraries, setting up systems, and creating frameworks. In this role, you would be working alongside a Backend Engineer, and a DevOps. Responsibilities Design and develop scalable, robust, and high-performance web applications using Ruby, Node.js, and other relevant technologies. Work on both server-side and client-side code, delivering end-to-end functionality. Collaborate with UI/UX designers to implement and refine dynamic user experiences. Integrate data from various back-end services and databases. Create and maintain software documentation. Lead code reviews, mentor junior developers, and ensure software quality and best practices. Participate in all phases of the agile development cycle, from concept development to deployment and maintenance. Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems. Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Required Skills & Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Minimum of 5 years of experience as a fullstack developer with significant experience in Ruby and Node.js. Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks. Expertise in developing RESTful APIs. Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and non-relational databases like MongoDB. Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and frameworks such as React or AngularJS). Strong understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git. Excellent problem-solving abilities and ability to perform in a team environment. Strong communication skills and proficiency in English. Preferred Skills Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Familiarity with container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Knowledge of additional programming languages such as Python or PHP. Benefits Competitive salary + potential for equity. Flexible working is actively embraced + remote first Choose your own tech - get the equipment you love using at work. Personal Development budget, courses and plans tailored to you and your role Generous holiday allowance, including the full Christmas to New Year as a break on us. Join a highly motivated, engaged team of extremely smart, creative and talented people.
A fantastic, fully remote opportunity! Are you an experienced Full Stack PHP Developer with React? This well-established SaaS platform used by businesses across the UK prides itself on providing a stable, reliable, and feature-rich service to its large portfolio of clients. They foster a collaborative, supportive, and fully remote working environment where talented developers can really thrive. The Role: We are seeking a talented and experienced Full Stack PHP Developer to join their dedicated development team. You will play a crucial role in the ongoing development, maintenance, and enhancement of their core SaaS platform. Working across the full stack, you'll be involved in building new features, optimising existing code, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of their application. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute significantly to a great product within a stable company environment, utilising modern PHP practices and front-end technologies like React. Key Responsibilities: Develop, test, and deploy robust backend features using PHP and frameworks like Slim4. Build and maintain responsive and engaging user interfaces using React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other developers to translate requirements into technical solutions. Write clean, maintainable, well-documented, and testable code. Optimise application performance and ensure scalability. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across the stack. Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical discussions and architectural decisions. Work with relational databases (e.g., MySQL/PostgreSQL) to design schemas and write efficient queries. Maintain and improve the codebase and development practices. Required Skills & Experience: Proven commercial experience as a Full Stack PHP Developer. Strong proficiency in modern PHP Significant commercial experience with at least one major PHP MVC framework Solid commercial experience developing front-end applications using React . Ideally an understanding of React Native (even with personal projects) Proficiency in front-end fundamentals: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+). Experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and writing complex SQL queries. Proficient with version control systems, particularly Git. Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. Strong communication and collaboration skills, essential for a remote team. Eligibility Requirement: Must be currently based in the United Kingdom and possess the full, unrestricted right to work in the UK. What they offer: Competitive salary package. Fully remote working arrangement within the UK. Opportunity to work on a successful, established SaaS product with a stable company. A collaborative and supportive team environment. Opportunities for professional growth and development. For immediate consideration, apply with your CV or feel free to call for more details.
Jan 15, 2026
Full time
A fantastic, fully remote opportunity! Are you an experienced Full Stack PHP Developer with React? This well-established SaaS platform used by businesses across the UK prides itself on providing a stable, reliable, and feature-rich service to its large portfolio of clients. They foster a collaborative, supportive, and fully remote working environment where talented developers can really thrive. The Role: We are seeking a talented and experienced Full Stack PHP Developer to join their dedicated development team. You will play a crucial role in the ongoing development, maintenance, and enhancement of their core SaaS platform. Working across the full stack, you'll be involved in building new features, optimising existing code, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of their application. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute significantly to a great product within a stable company environment, utilising modern PHP practices and front-end technologies like React. Key Responsibilities: Develop, test, and deploy robust backend features using PHP and frameworks like Slim4. Build and maintain responsive and engaging user interfaces using React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other developers to translate requirements into technical solutions. Write clean, maintainable, well-documented, and testable code. Optimise application performance and ensure scalability. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across the stack. Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical discussions and architectural decisions. Work with relational databases (e.g., MySQL/PostgreSQL) to design schemas and write efficient queries. Maintain and improve the codebase and development practices. Required Skills & Experience: Proven commercial experience as a Full Stack PHP Developer. Strong proficiency in modern PHP Significant commercial experience with at least one major PHP MVC framework Solid commercial experience developing front-end applications using React . Ideally an understanding of React Native (even with personal projects) Proficiency in front-end fundamentals: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+). Experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and writing complex SQL queries. Proficient with version control systems, particularly Git. Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. Strong communication and collaboration skills, essential for a remote team. Eligibility Requirement: Must be currently based in the United Kingdom and possess the full, unrestricted right to work in the UK. What they offer: Competitive salary package. Fully remote working arrangement within the UK. Opportunity to work on a successful, established SaaS product with a stable company. A collaborative and supportive team environment. Opportunities for professional growth and development. For immediate consideration, apply with your CV or feel free to call for more details.
PHP Developer Bristol - Hybrid Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on site Circa 50,000 (DOE) + Training + Progression + Hybrid + 5 Percent Matched Pension + Holiday Excellent opportunity for an experienced PHP Developer to join a friendly and growing SaaS business offering great training, interesting technical work and a highly collaborative environment. This company build a market leading platform used across the higher education sector, supporting research and teaching. They are continuing to grow year on year and are looking to add two developers to their team in central Bristol. In this role you will join a small, supportive team working on a full stack web application (mostly back-end with some front-end work), across both BAU and new product features. You will work within an agile development approach, with the opportunity to contribute ideas around product design, structure, technology, usability and interface improvements. You'll receive training and support from the development team before being expected to contribute fully. The tech stack includes PHP, JavaScript, React, MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres and Git. The team collaborate on site Tuesday to Thursday, with home working on Mondays and Fridays. The ideal candidate will be a PHP Developer with commercial experience across full stack web applications and strong procedural PHP experience. You will be comfortable with JavaScript, React, HTML/CSS frameworks, SQL and Git, with strong attention to detail, good security practices and clear communication skills. Candidates must be able to commute to central Bristol three days a week. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a stable and growing team offering excellent training, product involvement and a great work life balance. The Role: PHP backend development JavaScript, React, HTML and CSS frontend development MySQL, SQL Server and Postgres databases Git for version control and secure coding practices The Person: PHP Developer commercial experience (full stack web applications) Strong with JavaScript, React, SQL and Git Must have commercial procedural PHP experience Commutable to central Bristol three days a week Reference Number: BBBH(phone number removed)A To apply for this role or to be considered for further roles, please click Apply Now or contact Tommy Williams at Rise Technical Recruitment. Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.
Jan 09, 2026
Full time
PHP Developer Bristol - Hybrid Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on site Circa 50,000 (DOE) + Training + Progression + Hybrid + 5 Percent Matched Pension + Holiday Excellent opportunity for an experienced PHP Developer to join a friendly and growing SaaS business offering great training, interesting technical work and a highly collaborative environment. This company build a market leading platform used across the higher education sector, supporting research and teaching. They are continuing to grow year on year and are looking to add two developers to their team in central Bristol. In this role you will join a small, supportive team working on a full stack web application (mostly back-end with some front-end work), across both BAU and new product features. You will work within an agile development approach, with the opportunity to contribute ideas around product design, structure, technology, usability and interface improvements. You'll receive training and support from the development team before being expected to contribute fully. The tech stack includes PHP, JavaScript, React, MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres and Git. The team collaborate on site Tuesday to Thursday, with home working on Mondays and Fridays. The ideal candidate will be a PHP Developer with commercial experience across full stack web applications and strong procedural PHP experience. You will be comfortable with JavaScript, React, HTML/CSS frameworks, SQL and Git, with strong attention to detail, good security practices and clear communication skills. Candidates must be able to commute to central Bristol three days a week. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a stable and growing team offering excellent training, product involvement and a great work life balance. The Role: PHP backend development JavaScript, React, HTML and CSS frontend development MySQL, SQL Server and Postgres databases Git for version control and secure coding practices The Person: PHP Developer commercial experience (full stack web applications) Strong with JavaScript, React, SQL and Git Must have commercial procedural PHP experience Commutable to central Bristol three days a week Reference Number: BBBH(phone number removed)A To apply for this role or to be considered for further roles, please click Apply Now or contact Tommy Williams at Rise Technical Recruitment. Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.
A hugely successful, rapidly growing fin tech company are looking for a Back End/DevOps Engineer to join an established, small development team across their user friendly platforms with new integrations and products. With a 4.8/5 Trustpilot score and a string of industry awards and recent investment, they're ready to grow by another 70% next year. They need an experienced PHP/Laravel Developer with some DevOps experience in AWS or similar who has experience managing and configuring Docker environments for production. What experience you'll need Experience building and shipping production apps using PHP, Laravel API's. DevOps experience in AWS or similar. Experience configuring and managing Docker environments for production, CI/CD and using tools like GitHub Actions or similar. Able to optimise performance and enable teams to ship with confidence. Ability to thrive in a fast paced, startup environment where your work has visible impact. Any experience/knowledge of cloud security principles, Flare, NewRelic or similar observability tooling would be great. What you'll be doing You'll be part of a team of 6 7 developers maintaining and enhancing existing software products writing clean, scalable Laravel code to improve functionality and performance. In addition to back end development, they'll look for you to help design and scale secure, robust infrastructure to support their full stack of API's and web applications. Further duties will include building DevOps workflows that support CI/CD across multiple environments working with Docker and deployment tooling to ensure system resilience. You will ensure system observability through logging, metrics and alerts and help to write, improve and maintain automated tests (PHPUnit). Your work will assist people who are often unfairly overlooked for financial help so you should feel really good about what you're building. What you'll get in return for your talents A competitive salary of up to £65K, plus generous holiday allowance, company shares scheme, fun team events and social gatherings, enhanced pension plan, MacBook Pro, comprehensive training and development opportunities plus more. You'll be part of a growing team working on challenging projects and a chance to have a real impact not just in the evolution of the products but in helping thousands of people. What's next? You'll be an integral part of their team, working closely online with other talented people. If you're up to the challenge, can work well remotely and have the technical capabilities, please get your CV over to me asap for consideration
Jan 08, 2026
Full time
A hugely successful, rapidly growing fin tech company are looking for a Back End/DevOps Engineer to join an established, small development team across their user friendly platforms with new integrations and products. With a 4.8/5 Trustpilot score and a string of industry awards and recent investment, they're ready to grow by another 70% next year. They need an experienced PHP/Laravel Developer with some DevOps experience in AWS or similar who has experience managing and configuring Docker environments for production. What experience you'll need Experience building and shipping production apps using PHP, Laravel API's. DevOps experience in AWS or similar. Experience configuring and managing Docker environments for production, CI/CD and using tools like GitHub Actions or similar. Able to optimise performance and enable teams to ship with confidence. Ability to thrive in a fast paced, startup environment where your work has visible impact. Any experience/knowledge of cloud security principles, Flare, NewRelic or similar observability tooling would be great. What you'll be doing You'll be part of a team of 6 7 developers maintaining and enhancing existing software products writing clean, scalable Laravel code to improve functionality and performance. In addition to back end development, they'll look for you to help design and scale secure, robust infrastructure to support their full stack of API's and web applications. Further duties will include building DevOps workflows that support CI/CD across multiple environments working with Docker and deployment tooling to ensure system resilience. You will ensure system observability through logging, metrics and alerts and help to write, improve and maintain automated tests (PHPUnit). Your work will assist people who are often unfairly overlooked for financial help so you should feel really good about what you're building. What you'll get in return for your talents A competitive salary of up to £65K, plus generous holiday allowance, company shares scheme, fun team events and social gatherings, enhanced pension plan, MacBook Pro, comprehensive training and development opportunities plus more. You'll be part of a growing team working on challenging projects and a chance to have a real impact not just in the evolution of the products but in helping thousands of people. What's next? You'll be an integral part of their team, working closely online with other talented people. If you're up to the challenge, can work well remotely and have the technical capabilities, please get your CV over to me asap for consideration
