Backend Developer - Core PHP / MySQL for Florist Ecommerce Platform

Fix bugs and improve existing functionality

- Plan and create new features based on customer tickets

- Improve database reliability and performance

- Maintain third-party APIs

- Communicate clearly, estimate honestly, and document important changes

Ideal person:

- Careful, reliable, and detail-focused

- Strong problem solver who can trace issues through a real production codebase

- Happy working on an established custom platform

- Understands e-commerce logic and the importance of not breaking live orders or payments

The developer can be based outside the UK, but ideally should be available for at least part of the UK working day, especially between 1pm and 5pm UK GMT:0 time.

Key skills needed:

- Strong Core PHP experience, ideally PHP 8+

- Excellent MySQL knowledge, including queries, joins, indexes, schema changes, and debugging data issues

- Experience working on e-commerce platforms, including orders, products, checkout, payments etc

- Experience with APIs including Stripe, Cloudflare, Google Maps, Mandrill

- Cron jobs, Docker, Nginx, PHP-FPM, Jira, Git

- Comfortable working with existing and legacy codebases

- Performance optimisation

- Security best practices

- Server management, especially LAMP stack environments

Work hours: 3-7 hours per day, Monday to Friday

- Working window: anytime between 10am and 6pm UK time

- Hourly rate: £14-£20 / $18-$27 depending on expertise

- Monthly salary: approximately £600-£2,000 / $800-$2,700 depending on hours and experience

- Salary and hours are negotiable

Current team:

- 3 PHP developers

- 3 Artworkers/on boarders

- 1 Apple developer for the app

Benefits:

- Part of a small and friendly team

- Remote working with stable income

- Flexible work hours

- Part of a quickly growing business

- Wage growth as the platform gains more customers

We look forward to hearing from you and potentially welcoming you to our team.

Please reply with your relevant PHP/MySQL e-commerce experience, examples of similar systems you have worked on, your availability, and your expected hourly rate.

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