My client is an award-winning online retailer enjoying sustained growth period and are looking for a talented Senior level PHP Developer / Software Developer. Passionate about technology, they’re eager to experiment with new technology and are leveraging technologies such as React Native, Docker and Elasticsearch in production.

Essential to have:

• At least four years of development experience in a commercial setting
• Experience of PHP MVC frameworks such as Laravel
• Experience of Test Driven Development
• Object-Oriented Code and using SOLID principles
• A firm grasp of basic MySQL (Joins, Groups)
• Experience of foundational front end technology e.g. JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience of Agile development methodologies e.g. Scrum

Nice to have:

• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Exposure to Continuous Delivery & Integration
• Front end styling frameworks such as SASS & Bootstrap
• An understanding of microservice architectures and experience with REST APIs
• Docker containers

Extensive Benefits:

● 33 days holiday incl Bank Holidays
● Private medical (for employees and immediate family)
● Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
● Staff bonus scheme
● Death in service payment (2x Salary)
● Pension Scheme (2.5% Contribution)
● Choice of MacBook Pro or developer-spec Windows or Linux laptop
● Wellness Extras: Free flu jabs and reflexology sessions
● Staff discount
● Free worldwide travel insurance (for employees and immediate family)

PHP Developer: Commercially focused and naturally experimental, you will work within the web development team within the product conversion department to implement changes that will give the customers a best in class experience across all brand websites.

Essential Experience:

 Commercial PHP experience
 HTML/JavaScript
 Experience with MVC frameworks
 MySQL/MSSQL databases
 Version control such as Git/SVN

You will be responsible for generating all ideas that influence change on the website and ultimately decide on your own work, along with testing, releasing and monitoring the impact of your changes on the business – an unusually rewarding role. You will work alongside analysts to deep dive into data to come up with your very own ideas to improve the website, then work with the UX designers to bring your idea to life in concept format, then finally work with senior developers to implement your change and get it live on the website.

Desirable Experience:

 Experience working on high volume transactional e-commerce websites
 Knowledge of Agile methodologies such as Scrum/Kanban
 Experience of conversion rate optimisation
 Degree in Computer science or related discipline

Expected Responsibilities:

• Generate ideas with solid hypothesis
• Contribute to the departments development output targets
• Implement incremental and iterative code changes to the live website
• Monitor real-time performance of website
• Contribute to development discussions and code reviews