Senior Full Stack Engineer - PHP

Are you excited to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable full‑stack solutions that have a real impact on global healthcare and research?

Do you enjoy mentoring engineers, shaping technical direction, and collaborating across product, design, and engineering to turn complex problems into elegant, user‑focused solutions?

About Us:

Working in technology at Elsevier means that your work really does matter – it changes lives. And you’ll see the real-world impact of your day-to-day efforts.

Our technologists have applied new machine learning models to reduce gender biases against women in academia and developed technology to help medical professionals more accurately diagnose conditions that may have otherwise been missed. Whether you’re supporting the business to be more efficient, building better infrastructure to help things run more smoothly, or if you’re part of a team creating products for the customers we serve, there’s always a new challenge you’ll be helping to solve.

About our Team:

Elsevier Health applies innovation, facilitates insights, and helps drive more informed decision-making for our customers across global health. We support health providers by providing accessible, trusted evidence-based information; prepare more medical and nursing students with effective tools and resources; provide insights that help clinicians improve patient outcomes; and supports a more personalized and localized healthcare experience. All for the benefit of every patient.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer who thrives in inclusive, collaborative environments and is passionate about building secure, scalable, and user-friendly web applications. You’ll work across the stack—from backend services and APIs to frontend interfaces—partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions. Your leadership will help shape architecture, DevOps practices, and team growth.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement services, APIs, and UIs; decompose monoliths where beneficial.

• Drive technical roadmaps, make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions, and author ADRs.

• Build REST/GraphQL APIs using Laravel or Symfony; enforce PSR standards.

• Optimize data modeling with MySQL/PostgreSQL and implement caching with Redis.

• Handle asynchronous processing via queues/streams (RabbitMQ/Kafka).

• Build accessible, performant UIs with React or Vue; manage state with Redux.

• Optimize bundles, code-split, and implement robust form/data fetching patterns.

• Implement CI/CD with GitHub Actions, containerization with Docker, and basic Kubernetes familiarity.

• Apply automated testing using PHPUnit/Pest, Jest/Vitest, Playwright/Cypress.

• Ensure observability through logs, metrics, tracing, and error monitoring (New Relic).

• Apply security best practices including OWASP Top 10, secure secrets, and SCA hygiene.

• Mentor engineers, perform thoughtful code reviews, and foster a culture of learning.

• Collaborate with product and design teams to break down work, estimate, and ensure predictable delivery.

Requirements:

• 7–10+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• 4+ years building production APIs in PHP (Symfony a plus).

• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills across React or Vue and Node.js.

• Deep knowledge of relational databases and SQL performance.

• Experience designing and versioning REST/GraphQL APIs; authentication/authorization (JWT/OAuth/OpenID Connect).

• Solid testing strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end; CI pipelines and code quality tooling (ESLint/Prettier).

• Working knowledge of cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and containerized deploys.

• Python experience for services, scripts, or data workflows (FastAPI, Flask, Django) is a plus.

• Familiarity with Pandas, Celery/Airflow, or ML integration is a plus.

• Clear, inclusive communication and the ability to explain complex trade-offs.

• Product mindset: focus on outcomes, simplicity, and iterative delivery.

• Ownership, initiative, and a mentorship/teaching orientation.

• Experience with the following tech stack is beneficial:
  • Backend: PHP 8.x, Symfony, Composer; Node.js for tooling/SSR.

  • Frontend: React (Vite/Next.js) or Vue (Vite/Nuxt), TypeScript.

  • Data: MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis; optional Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.

  • Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda), Terraform; CDN/WAF (CloudFront/Cloudflare).

  • Quality & DX: PHPUnit/Pest, Jest/Vitest, Playwright/Cypress, PHPStan/Psalm, ESLint, Prettier.

Work in a way that works for you:

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

This is a hybrid role. Our teams operate in a flexible hybrid work model, combining in-person collaboration with remote flexibility. You’ll be expected to participate in regular team meetings and engineering rituals in line with your team’s cadence.

Working for you:

"We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Private Medical/Dental Plan
• Savings Fund
• Life Insurance
• Meal/Grocery Voucher"

About the business:

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress.



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