Developer

The Happiness Index; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A company focused on employee engagement is looking for a Developer to enhance their platform. This remote-first position requires expertise in PHP and React while participating in design and code reviews. Candidates should be problem-solvers with a passion for growth. Flexible work arrangements, 25 days of annual leave, and a supportive work culture are offered in a team-oriented environment situated in Bury St Edmunds.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Birthday day off

'Support your loved ones' days

Wellbeing Day

Cycle to work scheme

£300 work from home set-up budget

Qualifications

• Natural problem-solver passionate about growth.
• Self-starter able to learn and apply new technologies.
• Thirst for knowledge, keeping pace with new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, resilient code using PHP, SQL and React (NodeJS).
• Support developers on programming projects.
• Collaborate with peers to develop innovative Pre Built Surveys.
• Participate in design and code reviews, test and optimize code.
• Unit test your code and document features.

Skills

Problem-solving

Self-starter

Knowledge of PHP

Familiarity with SQL

Experience with React (NodeJS)

Job description

Who We Are

At The Happiness Index we help our customers unlock growth through data, technology and performance-culture expertise.

Our engagement platform gives a live view of a business’ cultural health. Using research-backed surveys and insights you can see what really drives engagement at every stage of the employee journey. Our consultants then turn insights into action by helping our customers build a culture that boosts performance.

Our vision to ‘Unlock the Secrets of Workplace Happiness’ together with our values of ‘Freedom to be human’ is strong and unites us as a team. We want our employees (our Quokkas) to have a great experience at The Happiness Index. We believe in encouraging personal and professional growth, cultivating a safe and inspiring environment, and creating space for people to show up as their full selves.

The Role

We’re looking for a Developer to work with our close-knit Tech Community to help evolve, develop and scale our platform by helping to develop new features, improve existing features, and support all things tech, diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving problems if they arise.

This varied role will work across our tech stack (backend and frontend) so the successful candidate will ideally be familiar with microservices and components that help improve, scale and make our product more robust built on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using PHP and React.

You’ll also work closely with other community teams such as Customer Success and Growth, sharing your expertise and knowledge along the way.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Using programming languages (primarily PHP, SQL and React (NodeJS) ), algorithms, data structures and design patterns to write clean, resilient code and clearly communicate your approach through well-commented documentation.
• Support developers on programming projects or tasks.
• Collaborate with peers inside and outside the Tech community to help excite, inform and develop their ideas.
• Contribute to the scoping process, and assist in developing and delivering innovative and creative Pre Built Surveys (PBSs).
• Participate in design and code reviews as well as test, troubleshoot, debug, profile and optimise code.
• You will be responsible for unit testing your code and working with others to ensure features are documented and communicated to the wider business.
• Work with the team to innovate the future of the platform through ideas workshops, hacks and experimentation with what we do.

What We’re Looking For

• A natural problem-solver who is passionate about growth and contributing to a well-structured, well-documented, maintainable and intelligent platform.
• Self-starter who is able to investigate, learn and apply new technologies.
• Someone with a thirst for knowledge who keeps pace with new and emerging technologies, sharing what they have learned with the team
• Familiarity and/or experience with PHP, SQL and React (NodeJS)

What We Offer

• Flexible working hours & location (we are remote first but meet regularly in person team days & all-company events, usually in and around Bury St Edmunds and London).
• 25 days annual leave & the ability to buy 5 more.
• Birthday day off.
• 5 ‘support your loved ones’ days per year.
• 2 volunteer days per year.
• ‘Wellbeing Day’ every August, our very own THI bank holiday.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• £300 work from home set-up budget.

We believe everyone has the right to be happy at work, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, ethnicity, neurological makeup or otherwise. We love to hear from a diverse audience and are committed to creating a fair and equitable recruitment experience. For instance, we take measures to reduce bias through our blind application process. If you require any specific accommodations in the recruitment process, please let us know in your application.