Who are we?

Tomplay is a leading innovator in the digital music industry, offering interactive sheet music for musicians of all levels. With a mission to transform the way people learn and enjoy playing music, we combine technology with creativity to deliver exceptional user experiences.

The Tomplay app is used by more than 2M musicians in 157 countries. The company has entered into a distribution partnership with Yamaha and Kawai, the world's largest instrument manufacturers, as well as key licensing agreements with dozens of publishers, positioning Tomplay's platform as the leader in interactive music learning. More information is available at tomplay.com.

Job summary:

We are looking for a back-end developer near the start of their career to work across the PHP systems that run Tomplay:

• tomplay.com: the public website, catalogue, shop and accounts. Laravel 10 on PHP 8.2, layered architecture, Solr-backed search.
• Web services: the API our mobile, desktop and web players call. Plain PHP, no framework, high traffic, plenty of history.

Both systems share one MySQL database and are maintained by a small team alongside our internal tools. You’ll work across the stack, from shipping website features to fixing API endpoints used by our apps.

We’re looking for someone who learns fast, asks good questions and is comfortable working with both modern Laravel architecture and legacy PHP/SQL. You’ll get real responsibility early and the opportunity to grow into owning key areas of the product.

This is a hands-on role. You write code every day.

What you will do:

• Build and maintain features across the website, the app API and our internal tools.
• Write and optimise MySQL queries against a database the whole product depends on.
• Build and maintain APIs consumed by our web, mobile and desktop clients.