PHP Laravel Developer - London, United Kingdom - Constant Recruitment Ltd

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  • London based offices
  • Work from Home
  • PHP & Laravel
PHP Laravel Developer
Full time - SaaS Software - Location: London and Work from Home
The Opportunity

This is an amazing opportunity for a highly capable person to join our client, a fast-growing SaaS Software company that has a vast global customer base.

Their web-based software is a feature rich 'End to End' system, Being a customer-focussed company, they are constantly evolving the system to suit the needs of our customers via an Agile and Lean methodology - and their product roadmap is growing fast

Their culture means that teams can enjoy ownership of the products and the autonomy to innovate; backed by their belief in cross-functional collaboration, experimentation, and learning.

About the Role
Our client is looking for a backend developer to join their engineering team in the UK. They currently have two developers working for us in the UK, both with several years' experience.
The backend developer will be collaborating with the team in planning, designing, enhancing existing and implementing new back-end components.

This will include working on a wide range of features and enhancements that will keep the role both exciting and rewarding.

In addition, the role includes ensuring best practices and industry standards are followed with focus on expanding the team's capability and building out best practices within a culture of continuous improvement.

You will actively contribute ideas to enhance performance, stability, and scalability, as well as influence the direction and implementation of new technologies.

Bringing a creative flair with technical know-how you will be able to put yourself in the user'sshoes and think critically about what you are building, ensuring due diligence is given when a building for configurability, flexibility, and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop new and maintain existing solutions in accordance with business objectives and specifications
  • Define and maintain industry best practices, patterns, toolsets, and standards.
- and collaborate with a cross-functional teams including developers, testers, product owners, business analysts and other stakeholders on a variety of projects.

  • Ensure stability and performance of components across a variety of platforms, browsers, and screen resolutions.
  • Participate in planning and estimation meetings
  • Mentor and support junior members and ensure continuous improvement and upskilling continuity
  • Provide feedback and contributions towards the technical roadmap
Key Requirements (Your Skills & Experience)

  • Experience with PHP and PHPbased frameworks (preferably with Laravel/Symfony)
  • Experience with one or more of MySQL, MariaDB, Amazon Aurora
  • Experience in the development and integration of APIs: XML, JSON,

JSON:
API, SOAP

  • Experience in BDD and TDD (not just saying it, doing it)
  • Good understanding of software development design principles, patterns, coding standards and best practices and SDLC and CI/CD practices
  • Experience in breaking down complex tasks, defining and capturing requirements and providing estimates on the scope of work.
  • Experience documenting APIs e.g., UML, OpenAPI and Swagger
  • Excellent knowledge of Git, GitFlow and other branching strategies
  • Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with purpose and a strong sense of urgency
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills we are global, so in person and via remote tools is critical. Influencing skills are core.
  • Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills able to analyse and solve problems.

Would be a bonus if you have:

  • Experience with front-end technologies such as React, Redux, Typescript, JS, HTML and CSS
  • Experience with DevOps, SecOps and AWS landscape
  • Exposure to one or more of Solr, Redis or ElasticSearch

What is in it for you:

  • Flexible working environment
  • Working with great tech & great people
  • Fantastic work culture
  • Global user base
  • Global team
  • Dayoff on your birthday + more

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