About you
As a member of our team, we want you to:
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Get involved with your teammates’ projects.
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Create exciting new websites and bring your thoughts and experience to the table.
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Work intelligently – using industry standard libraries and frameworks to speed up development, then writing bespoke code for the problems no one else has solved.
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Have time to play around and improve your skills – you’ll be given training materials and time to expand your skillset.
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Go home on time – our working hours are 9-6 (9-5 on in-office days) with an hour lunch (flexi-time available), and we’re strict about maintaining your work/life balance
Our benefits are pretty good:
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Free lunches on Wednesday and Fridays.
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32 days holiday a year (including bank holidays) + more free days off when we close down between Christmas and New Years Day.
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A fully stocked fridge of soft drinks and beer, Espresso machine and fresh gourmet coffee/teas to keep you energised
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Team drinks out roughly every month, and twice yearly team parties
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Loads of snacks/fruit/sweets to keep you fueled
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Subsidised gym membership
Some of the nitty-gritty bits:
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This is a split remote/office role, with 2 days a week (Wednesdays/Fridays) in our central London office
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This is a mid-weight role and therefore we expect you can work mostly independently with support from our senior backend developer and technical director.
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Your code should be easily picked up and maintained by anyone on the team.
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You need to be able to give realistic estimations of time to complete work and communicate openly throughout a project.
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You’ll need to have the right to work in the UK. Sorry, we can’t supply a visa.
In terms of knowledge and understanding, we expect you to have:
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Excellent understanding of PHP and MVC frameworks.
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Good understanding of using and developing API’s.
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Good understanding of MySQL.
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Knowledge of version control systems, specifically Git.
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Nice to have: knowledge/experience of continuous integration.
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Knowledge of software testing using frameworks such as PHPUnit/Dusk.
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Awareness of web markup, including HTML, CSS and JS.
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Basic understanding of CSS pre-processing, such as LESS/SASS.
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Good understanding of vanilla JavaScript, and common libraries and frameworks, such as Vue.js, React,, etc.
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Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with Photoshop/Sketch/Figma is a plus.
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Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
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Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that site will adhere to them.
Salary range:
£36,000 – £49,000 p/a, depending on experience.
