This is an opportunity to join a specialist eCommerce website developer and system integrator providing ecommerce, software development, marketing and technology services.
The role
They are looking for a PHP Developer with a few years experience looking to grow and develop their career in a growing digital agency. You’ll work on a wide range of internal and customer projects across a number of technologies and platforms. Joining an existing team you will gain a great deal of experience to grow and develop.
About you
You'll be a PHP developer with a couple of years experience working on web projects.
Essential Skills
- Excellent PHP and MYSQL
- Good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS
- Experience of version control, preferably Git
- Experience working in process-driven environment
- Strong communication skills
- An appetite for personal learning and development and an interest in the state and shape of the industry.
Desirable Skills
- Experience of Wordpress
- Experience of Magento EE and/or Magento 2
- Experience with other PHP frameworks – we use Laravel
- Experience of CSS preprocessors (SASS / LESS)
- Experience with unit testing frameworks
- Experience of caching solutions e.g. Redis, Memcache
- Commercial experience of systems integration via SOAP, REST, file transfer etc.
- Familiar with debugging and profiling tools e.g. Xdebug
- Familiar with packaging systems e.g. Composer
- Experience with deployment workflows
- Knowledge of virtualised or containerised environments e.g. Docker
- A good understanding of Linux-based hosting environments
- A good understanding of internet architecture.
- Ideally has worked in collaboration with an off-shore team.
Key Responsibilities
Working in a professional creative environment, this role involves:
- Collaborating with members of the team
- Helping us in shaping their solutions and process
- Interpreting and helping to write requirement briefs, specifications, wireframes and designs
- Build bespoke modules or advise on off-the-shelf solutions to meet tech requirements
- Provide estimates for scope of work
- Advise account handlers and clients on solutions and practices
- Problem-solving issues on existing sites.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- Pension Scheme
- 23 days paid holiday, including a day off on your Birthday
- Friendly team and modern office working environment
- Great career and salary progression opportunities in one of the UK’s fastest growing ecommerce agencies.
Their team of over 120 professionals are based in four locations across the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia. This role is at the headquarters based in the heart of the city of Leicester. Road links are excellent, and they are about 10 minutes form the train station.