Due to continued expansion, this niche digital agency has an immediate requirement for an experienced web developer to join their family in the heart of Chester.
You will be a creative, innovative professional with exceptional knowledge of planning and delivering bespoke PHP based websites and applications.
The Role
Working with the digital director you will take the lead on a variety of exciting client and in-house projects including web services and SaaS startups over the coming months. As a key member of the team you’ll be actively involved in the technical planning, development, testing and ongoing support of all projects.
As a family owned and operated company this is an ideal opportunity for a mid-senior PHP developer to play an active part in shaping their future technical team and offering with the potential for the right candidate to fast-track to a technical lead position.
Skills required:
- A minimum of 3 years commercial experience in a similar mid/senior role
- Fully proficient in PHP 7
- Proficient in at least one PHP framework - preferably Laravel / Symfony
- Fully proficient in creating and maintaining MySQL databases
- Web services (REST/JSON/SOAP)
- Strong knowledge of front end technologies - HTML5/CSS3/jQuery
- Mentoring / Leadership capabilities
Advantageous but not essential:
- Knowledge of a Java framework - eg. Angular, Vue
- Previous SaaS experience
- Server administration and scaling
You as a person:
- A positive ‘can do’ attitude
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communicator
- Logical problem solver
- Able to work across multiple projects simultaneously and prioritise to meet client deadlines.