UGLE seeks a Senior Laravel Developer

Senior Laravel Developer

United Grand Lodge of England are looking to hire a Senior Laravel Developer for our IT department.  

Background

UGLE is the governing body of Freemasonry in England, Wales, the Channel Islands, the Isles of Man consisting of 48 Provinces roughly based on the old county boundaries and 32 Districts overseas. English Freemasonry is a membership organisation of 175,000 people meeting in more than 7,000 Lodges across the globe. Membership is open to any man over the age of 18 irrespective of their background, race or religion, with students also able to join one of 87 University Scheme Lodges. The largest Province in UGLE is Metropolitan in London with many Lodges meeting at Freemasons Hall in Covent Garden which also serves as the Headquarters for English Freemasonry worldwide. 

Freemasons’ Hall is a unique art deco building which can date its origins back to 1769 when Freemasons first started meeting at this site. The current building was completed in 1933 as a memorial to those who died in the Great War. It houses 22 meeting rooms including some unique spaces regularly used for major international events and as film locations. The Hall itself provides a magnificent meeting place for UK and international masonic lodges. It is open to both Freemasons and the general public who are provided with both self-guided audio tours as well as guided tours of the facilities.  The Museum of Freemasonry with one of the finest collections of masonic artefacts and archives in the world, is housed within the building. 

The United Grand Lodge of England is an equal opportunities employer.

Purpose of the Job

This role is a key position within the development team, responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining modern systems built using Laravel, PHP, Vue, TypeScript, MySQL, and associated AWS services. The role supports both innovation on new systems and the transition of legacy functionality into a modern, scalable architecture. The postholder will work across backend and frontend layers, contribute to architectural decisions, ensure best practices in testing and security, and support the wider team through technical leadership and mentoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Co-design the application architecture across clear, modular service layers
• Lead the development and delivery of complex system features
• Expand automated testing and improve overall code reliability
• Optimise performance, deep caching, schema design, and query efficiency
• Ensure robust security and apply awareness of penetration testing considerations
• Apply domain-driven design and well-architected application principles
• Lead technical discovery, scoping, and solution design activities
• Present technical approaches and architectural decisions to stakeholders
• Mentor team members and support the development of engineering best practice
• Build and enhance Vue-based SPA and PWA interfaces using TypeScript
• Develop, document, and maintain high-quality APIs
• Work with AWS services including SES, SQS, and RDS
• Operate within a fully containerised, auto-scaling, multi-environment deployment architecture
• Maintain all development work within the corporate GitHub environment using branches, merges, and pull requests
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant backend and frontend engineering practices, including performance, UX/UI considerations, and modern frameworks

Skills

• Excellent communication
• Problem solving
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team

Salary

Competitive salarly plus the following benefits package:

• Private medical cover
• Pension (3.5% employee & 9% employer contributions – increasing to 12% with length of service)
• Life Assurance
• Holiday (25 days increasing to 30 days with length of service)
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Gym membership (subsidised)
• Health and Wellbeing Benefits
• Flexible working

Hours

The successful applicant is required to work 35 hours per week Monday to Friday. 

Application details

To apply please send your CV and covering letter to: Rosey Hogan – HR Officer - United Grand Lodge of England via email to [email protected] 

Please ensure that your CV/covering letter evidences the necessary skills and how your experience to date matches the requirements for the role. 

CV’s received without a covering letter will not be considered.

Closing date for applications is close of business (5pm) on Friday 30 January 2026.