Web Developer Job in Stoke-on-Trent ST4 - StairBox Careers

PHP Web Developer

Job Title PHP Web Developer Job Type Permanent, full time
Salary up to £45,000 DOE
Location: StairBox Head Office, Unit S94,St. Modwen Park Stoke South, Gordon Banks Drive, Trentham Lakes North, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 4TW Reference WEBD

PHP Web Developer

We are a fast-growing staircase manufacturer with a fantastic opportunity available to join our team!

Working alongside our senior Developer, we are looking for a PHP / Laravel developer to support our team on a range of exciting new projects.

Responsibilities:

Our ideal candidate is enthusiastic, eager to learn, and has the ability to quickly pick up new skills. You will be challenged daily in an exciting and ever-changing environment, and will work alongside colleagues in all areas of the business, and will be able to make a real difference to the company.

Key accountabilities

  • Maintain our existing systems, learning from them at the same time
  • Implement design changes and new features
  • Fix bugs
  • Support planned and reactive changes

Essential:

  • Strong PHP experience & knowledge (PHP 8+, min. 3 years demonstrable commercial experience)
  • Strong experience in using the Laravel PHP framework (versions 9 & 10, other relevant framework experience considered)
  • Experience using frontend JavaScript frameworks such as Vue (other relevant framework experience considered)
  • Strong knowledge of MySQL & HTML
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Desire to learn new technologies
  • Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience
  • Experience with automated testing & the ability to write testable code
  • Git source control

Desirable:

  • Has worked with and improved legacy code
  • Experience using cloud providers (i.e. Google Cloud Platform, AWS)
  • Experience of the Laravel ecosystem (i.e. Horizon, Forge, Breeze etc.)
  • Ability to demonstrate instances where your code has resolved real-world business problems and improved business processes
  • Ability to show examples of your work (i.e. GitHub profile, live projects, etc.)

Personal:

  • Enthusiasm for the role and software development in general
  • Hardworking and proactive
  • Thrives in a challenging and fast-paced environment
  • Resilient and maintains a positive attitude at all times
  • Must be comfortable working on multiple projects at once

Hours of work: 8:00am - 5:00pm Monday to Friday

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: up to £45,000 (DOE) per year

Benefits:

  • Company pension
  • Employee discount
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Free parking
  • Life insurance
  • On-site parking
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Store discount
  • Wellness programme

Benefits:

  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Stoke-on-Trent: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person, possibility for hybrid work after 6 months and⁄ qualifying period.