Major Duties:

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

· Develop and maintain software features and the supporting build/release/test infrastructure.

· Be responsible for delivering high quality solutions to specification and on time.

· Actively contribute to the continuous improvement culture and process and drive efficiencies within the team ​.

· Peer code reviews.

· Uphold good development planning and procedures.

· Follow industry best practises and coding standards.

· Optimise application performance and improve user experience through innovative front-end and back-end development techniques.

· Assisting mid-level developers when required.

· To effectively communicate with key stakeholders, attend regular meetings and conference calls, share best practice and work collaboratively at all times within the department and with the wider business.

· Assist with translation of technical concepts into non-technical updates to stakeholders, and interpret non-technical ideas from stakeholders into technical concepts and output.

· Actively contribute and collaborate to improve innovation and features, improve UX, improve UI, speed, and collaboration.

· To understand the wider objectives, timelines, and strategy and actively contribute to their success.

· Ensure adherence with SOPs, accreditations, security, data security, and governance processes at all times.

· To be flexible and work effectively with other colleagues.

· Ensure that we are always compliant, comply with Health and Safety working practice in accordance with the company's policy.

Skills

· 5+ years' experience with the Laravel Ecosystem.

· Excellent knowledge of database systems, including MySQL and PostgreSQL.

· Good understanding and previous experience with using Laravel queues, authentication, task scheduling, mail integration, artisan and the best security practises within the web and Laravel ecosystem.

· Understanding design patterns in Laravel and their use cases.

· Experience with payment integrations (Worldpay, PayPal, Stripe, Open Banking etc).

· Unit testing (phpunit/pest).

· Be able to produce and document clean code.

· CSS frameworks (TailwindCSS/Bootstrap) and in depth experience with SCSS/SASS.

· Javascript experience with one or more JS frameworks (Vue, React or Angular), preferably Vue, and have a good understanding of modern frontend and backend technologies.

· Version Control (Github/bitbucket).

· Experience working with RESTful APIs and integrating backend services.

· In depth experience with security, form validation, XSS prevention, database security, session management, input validation and other OWASP guidelines.

· Proven experience in developing scalable web applications using Laravel and other web technologies.

· Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholder.

· Understand the basic concepts of server management.

· Experience with debugging and replicating issues/bugs throughout an application.

Desirable Skills:

· Go lang

· Peer code reviews

· GraphQL or in general eCommerce experience would be desirable

· NoSQL databases

· Ionic framework experience

· Github profile with working samples of previously produced code

· Analytical integrations

· Docker

· Figma/XD wireframing experience

· Laravel Livewire/Inertia

· Devops

· Knowledge of Cloud technology

Personal Qualities

· Must be performance driven.

· Must thrive on problem solving.

· Must be passionate about innovation.

· Must be meticulous and exceptionally accurate.

· Must be self-motivated and be able to work independently with minimum guidance.

· Must always uphold the highest levels of accountability and integrity.

· Must be committed to delivering high standards at all times.

· Committed to equal opportunities.

· Willing to be flexible and respond to changing circumstances in a rapidly moving landscape and fast-growing business - must thrive on change.