We are looking for a driven, creative and organised Senior/Lead Full Stack Developer to join our growing interdisciplinary team of 7 developers. This is a great opportunity to work with an innovative group of engaged and motivated people on exciting new projects.

You will lead and mentor the team, ensuring that each team member continues to build on their skills, and championing architectural soundness and coding standards to maintain a culture of continuous improvement.

In this role you will enjoy a range of work including front and back-end web application development (mainly in PHP), testing and diagnostics. You will be working both on the long-term release cycles (which requires good planning and focus), and the day-to-day management of customer implementations. This a role that requires end to end development, from requirements gathering and analysis right through to deployment. 

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Analysis, architecture, design and implementation of both technical and client-facing features
  • Leading and mentoring team to meet strategic goals
  • Contributing to the team through knowledge-sharing and skills transfer, conducting peer reviews, and taking on SCRUM roles (which rotate among the team).
  • Assisting the Head of Product Development to manage the team, including recruitment and performance reviews
  • Adhering to our coding standards, keeping up with current practices
  • Documentation of code and systems
  • Management of off-shore resources (this is a shared responsibility of the team)
  • Refactoring legacy code into modern patterns
  • Bug investigation and resolution
  • Keeping the test build passing, (in co-ordination with other developers)
  • Assistance in supporting client implementations
  • Assistance in pro-actively monitoring and improving our systems
  • Programming – OOA&D (in a major OO language, not necessarily PHP)
  • Database – RDBMS, SQL / MySQL, Eloquent
  • Web development - HTML, CSS, SASS, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap
  • Debugging and tracing
  • Testing - xUnit, eg. PHPUnit, Bamboo, Selenium
  • Architectural and design patterns: MVC, DI, IoC, REST
  • Working within frameworks:  Laravel / Illuminate / Backbone
  • Development tools: Git, Git Flow, IDE (eg. Eclipse, IntelliJ, PHPStorm), Composer, JIRA, Bitbucket, Gulp
  • Cloud: AWS, EC2, RDS, SES
  • Dev Ops: Automated Deployment, Release Management, APM
  • Process – Agile, eg. Scrum
  • Management: Experience leading small teams
  • Database administration - esp. MySQL
  • System administration - esp. Linux, Apache, bash, crons
  • Message queues: AMQP, RabbitMQ
  • LAMP stack/Win administration
  • Electronics Diagnosis / Hardware / Comms protocols / Telephony
  • Mapping / geolocation
  • Telematics, automotive, robotics
  • A computer science or software engineering degree (highly regarded but not required)
  • 7-12+ years of commercial experience in OOA&D and development, including at least 3 years in a senior position
  • A disciplined approach to development and testing
  • A desire to investigate, fix and learn!