Kinship - Product Engineer, Backend
Requirements
• You don’t need to tick every box, but here’s what would help you succeed: • Strong experience with PHP (we use PHP 8+) • Familiarity with containerized environments using Docker • Product mindset — you think in terms of user value, not just technical correctness • Clear communicator and thoughtful collaborator • Someone who’s excited to work in a small, fast-moving team • Knowledge of Laravel or Symfony • Comfortable with AWS basics — think deploying apps, storing files, managing databases • Experience designing or evolving APIs in production • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines • Interest in DevOps, observability, or developer tooling
Responsibilities
• Build and maintain backend services in modern PHP • Design and implement APIs consumed by our frontend and desktop apps • Use Docker to standardize development and streamline deployments • Work with AWS services (e.g. ECS, S3, RDS, CloudWatch) to keep our systems fast and reliable • Collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to ship features • Write tests and monitor performance so we can trust our stack at scale
Benefits
• A beautiful, plant-filled office in central London (by Southwark tube station) and good coffee (obviously) • A no-BS team of people who love building great software together • Real autonomy and influence over product and tech decisions • A company that believes in work-life balance
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