About the role

The Role:

• Fully remote
• Head Office: Bishop’s Stortford
• Salary: £40,000 – £45,000
• Hours Per Week: 8.30am – 5.00pm
• Role Type: Permanent
• Reporting to: Lead Web Development

Benefits:

• Sickness and accident salary protection insurance
• Life insurance
• Holiday entitlement: 25 days plus bank holidays (34 days for 2022)
• Full induction
• Company pension scheme

Responsibilities:

• Understanding project requirements and translating into web applications built with appropriate and optimal web technologies
• Write testable and well designed efficient code to best development practices
• Design and develop any APIs necessary to facilitate communication between third party services
• Advise and implement any useful web concepts or web APIs that could better improve automation/optimisation of web systems
• Stay up to date on modern web standards and advise the company of any upcoming/relevant industry changes which may affect or benefit
• Maintain software documentation
• Write to TDD techniques
• Attend remote meetings with external clients where necessary
• Work using the team’s Shape Up methodology

Skills Required:

• Understanding of web standards and best development practices along with security considerations
• Appropriate knowledge of backend technologies and frameworks (primarily PHP for existing applications, Lumen / Laravel)
• Appropriate knowledge of backend approaches for efficiency such as asynchronous queuing mechanisms and caching (Supervisor / SQS)
• Appropriate knowledge of front end languages (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) and front end CSS frameworks (Bootstrap / Materialize)
• Appropriate knowledge of local environment setup and CSS preprocessors (Docker / SASS)
• Appropriate knowledge of front end JavaScript frameworks (Current stack uses VueJS and NodeJS with Express Framework)
• Appropriate knowledge of database technologies such as MySQL and MongoDB
• Familiar with test frameworks and linters (PHPUnit, Jest, SuperTest)
• Appropriate knowledge of version control systems (Git / GitHub Actions)
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem solving skills, attention to detail and ability to juggle multiple tasks where necessary with appropriate timeline considerations
• Understanding of core concepts of Shape Up methodology
• Familiarity of AWS services/concepts (EC2, S3, SQS, Load Balancers, CloudFront, ELB, RDS, CodeDeploy)

Application Questions:

• Do you have a good knowledge of backend technologies and frameworks?
• Are you confident in writing testable and well designed code?
• Are you familiar with test frameworks and linters (PHPUnit, Jest, SuperTest)?

Experience:

• Commercial web development: 3 years (required)