Senior Backend PHP Developer
Cardiff – Hybrid (1 day per week on site)
Salary – £50k-£65k
Unify are proud to be supporting an established, well known Fintech business further grow their talented Engineering team.
They recognize that their People are central to delivering on their mission and are passionate about nurturing and developing talent at all levels across the organisation.
Key responsibilities:
- Diagnosing and resolving reported issues in the Laravel web application which is currently supporting the customer-facing digital experience, backend integrations with third party services and data migration / transformation.
- Taking ownership of a product, feature or task and seeing it through from conception to production; often architecting solutions to complex problems.
- Reviewing, refactoring and rearchitecting areas of the functionality that will remain in the Laravel web application or be extended there.
- Collaborating with colleagues on the de-coupling and migration of functionality over time into modern technology stacks, such as Node (gaining exposure to JavaScript/Typescript in the process).
- Using excellent oral and written communication, confidently explaining technical concepts to fellow engineers, less-technical colleagues, and clients.
- Contributing to the management of the client’s AWS infrastructure (supported by their dedicated SysOps partner) and our Kubernetes/CI/CD workflow.
- Being an ambassador of the brand and its values.
Skills Required:
- Looking to develop craft as a Full Stack Engineer.
- Expert commercial experience in building and evolving complex web applications, conceiving suites of APIs and performant data storage solutions.
- Solid knowledge of PHP in a commercial environment, ideally with experience in the Laravel framework (although similar such as Symfony is good too!)
- Good knowledge of React with state management concepts such as Redux.
- Demonstrable experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Demonstrable experience in designing scalable UI’s and large applications.
- Experience of working with AWS or Azure infrastructure and tools.
- Experience of handling queues of jobs and processes that manage the synchronisation of data into and out of the environments we manage.
- Proficient skills with the command line and command line tools such as git.
- Experience with CI/CD and modern best practices of deploying software.
Benefits:
They offer employees a long list of benefits, many of which you’ll see everywhere, but here are some of the highlights:
- ‘Flex 10’: reduced core working hours, creating 10 flexible hours to suit you
- Remote working, hybrid and office working options: we currently operate on min. 1 day a week office working, other options can be discussed dependent on role
- Pension matching up to 6%Healthcare plan and Digicare app with access to professional mental health support, nutritional advice, health screenings and a digital GPMonthly contribution to a well-being activity of your choice.
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Bonusley – peer to peer employee recognition programme
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay
- Personal development and skills training provided by the client and their parent organisation.
- Professional financial and pension advice
- Early Finish Fridays on the last Friday of every month
- Study leave: up to 5 days per year
- Charity days: 5 days per year to undertake work on behalf of a charity
- Together Time: 3x per year, 2 hours paid time off to spend time with people you care about most
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work
- Regular socials and more!
Reach out to our Talent Partner Amy Jones for more details.
Thanks
To apply for this job email your details to mark@unifytalentuk.com
