Fullstack PHP Developer

Job Description

Job Title: Software EngineerLocation: Middlesbrough / HybridSalary: Up to £55,000 DOEHours of Work: 08:30 - 17:00 (flexible)This client are a footwear and accessories retailer, operating across 28 retail locations, 17 concessions, 3 online domains as well as several channels and marketplaces.The business was founded in the 1920’s in Middlesbrough, England and returned to its roots in the 2010’s when it built a multi-million-pound, purpose-built head office and warehousing facility.More recently, the business has made a significant investment in technology, creating a standalone Technology Department, which operates three divisions: IT Operations, Data Science and Software Engineering and the business has made a strategic decision todevelop its key operating systems in-house and is therefore looking to grow its Software Engineering division to support these plans.About the Role:Reporting to the Head of Software Engineering, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining their PHP-based backends and APIs, as well as their VueJS-based single page application frontend.Youll work as part of a small team developing the applications which run the business, where the teams mission is improving the organisations ways of working through an innovation and software development approach.This is a relatively new team with exciting greenfield projects on the roadmap, so youll be a critical team member contributing to how their architecture and approach evolves.This is a fantastic opportunity for engineers who like to work as part of a team while being given the time and freedom to learn and develop their skills.Responsibilities:

• Designing and implement clean, maintainable, and efficient code for web applications
• Researching and documenting the technical approach for given requirements
• Debugging, troubleshooting and resolving bugs and performance issues
• Writing automated tests to ensure code quality and reliability
• Supporting team members and working collaboratively towards a joint team goal
• Performing peer code reviews and providing constructive feedback
• Working from and tracking progress in our agile project management software
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the teams processes and approaches

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge with PHP and its modern ecosystem, including PHP 8.0+, composer, frameworks such as Symfony/Zend/Laminas/Laravel, commonplace libraries such as PHPUnit, and standard approaches such as PSR standards
• Experienced writing object-oriented code following the SOLID principles, with an understanding of common design patterns and how to implement them
• Confident with automated testing in PHP including unit tests and integrating tests
• Experience developing systems with a SQL-based database (MySQL, Postgres, etc), including knowledge of query optimisation
• Experience with component-based UI frameworks such as React or Vue
• Good understanding of web security (e.g. OWASP Top 10) and how to prevent common vulnerabilities when developing PHP applications
• Comfortable with Linux and working from the command line
• Confident using HTML and CSS

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with agile (scrum) methodologies
• Familiarity with caching strategies across web applications
• Experience of with Doctrine or other data mapper based ORMs
• Understanding of modern web software architectures including microservices and serverless
• Knowledge including web accessibility best practices
• Solid grasp of API design paradigms, including the difference between REST and RPC APis
• Experience with cloud IaaS providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday + 1 Xmas shopping day + bank holidays
• Private pension
• Private health care
• Profit share scheme
• Choice of equipment i.e. Linux or Mac

If this sounds of interest, click apply now and a member of our team will be in touch!