PHP Web Developer
We are a fast-growing staircase manufacturer with a fantastic opportunity available to join our team!
Working alongside our senior Developer, we are looking for a PHP / Laravel developer to support our team on a range of exciting new projects.
Responsibilities:
Our ideal candidate is enthusiastic, eager to learn, and has the ability to quickly pick up new skills. You will be challenged daily in an exciting and ever-changing environment, and will work alongside colleagues in all areas of the business, and will be able to make a real difference to the company.
Key accountabilities
- Maintain our existing systems, learning from them at the same time
- Implement design changes and new features
- Fix bugs
- Support planned and reactive changes
Essential:
- Strong PHP experience & knowledge (PHP 8+, min. 3 years demonstrable commercial experience)
- Strong experience in using the Laravel PHP framework (versions 9 & 10, other relevant framework experience considered)
- Experience using frontend JavaScript frameworks such as Vue (other relevant framework experience considered)
- Strong knowledge of MySQL & HTML
- Strong attention to detail
- Desire to learn new technologies
- Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience
- Experience with automated testing & the ability to write testable code
- Git source control
Desirable:
- Has worked with and improved legacy code
- Experience using cloud providers (i.e. Google Cloud Platform, AWS)
- Experience of the Laravel ecosystem (i.e. Horizon, Forge, Breeze etc.)
- Ability to demonstrate instances where your code has resolved real-world business problems and improved business processes
- Ability to show examples of your work (i.e. GitHub profile, live projects, etc.)
Personal:
- Enthusiasm for the role and software development in general
- Hardworking and proactive
- Thrives in a challenging and fast-paced environment
- Resilient and maintains a positive attitude at all times
- Must be comfortable working on multiple projects at once
Hours of work: 8:00am - 5:00pm Monday to Friday
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: up to £45,000 (DOE) per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Store discount
- Wellness programme
Benefits:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Stoke-on-Trent: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person, possibility for hybrid work after 6 months and⁄ qualifying period.