Laravel Developer (Remote)

Sweden Renewable Energy Investments AB; Chester; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established and fast-growing business is seeking a passionate Laravel Developer to join their dynamic team. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance systems and online capabilities while contributing to significant growth. The company promotes a remote working model, providing flexibility and a conducive environment for personal and professional development. Ideal candidates will have a strong foundation in PHP and Laravel, along with a desire to ask questions and solve problems. Join this innovative firm and be a key player in shaping the future of renewable energy technology.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Pool table in the office

Casual dress code

Away days

Access to training and learning opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of PHP & Laravel experience required.
• Strong grasp of PHP coding principles and MySQL/MariaDB knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve systems and online capabilities using PHP and Laravel.
• Collaborate with a small team to drive growth and market share.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

VueJS

CSS

MySQL/MariaDB

DevOps

GitHub

RabbitMQ

Pusher

Docker

Job description

This is a great opportunity to work for an established and fast growing business, where you will have the opportunity to develop a worthwhile career.

The company is experiencing significant growth and this will create genuine learning and development opportunities.

They offer a remote working model which can be discussed in more detail on application.

They are looking for a Laravel Developer to further capitalise on their explosive growth over the last few years. The ideal candidate will work within an important part of the business and will have a passion to improve and develop systems and online capabilities. They are agile, focused and keen to gain further market share and the developer team is a key part of this growth strategy.

They are seeking an inquisitive thinker. Someone who asks lots of questions, and is a problem solver.

Requirements:

Essential

• At least 3 years of PHP & Laravel experience
• Most recent employment focused on PHP/Laravel

Desirable/Non Essential

• Strong grasp of PHP coding principles, PSRs, continuous integration
• Good knowledge of MySQL/MariaDB, including indexes and table design
• Proficient in VueJS, CSS
• PHP testing Laravel Dusk or Pest
• DevOps experience, troubleshooting MySQL/nginx/php-fpm machines
• Worked with many external APIs, e.g Stripe, Google, AWS, OpenAI.
• GitHub and Pull requests

Nice to have

• Has worked in a similar industry e.g CRM / lead generation / email/sms
• Has worked on an iOS/android app with a Laravel backend
• Can lead less experienced members of the development team
• Worked with technologies: RabbitMQ, Pusher, Galera, Docker
• Worked with an app with a huge number of database models (ours has 600+)
• Worked with an app with a huge database (100GB+; our database is over 3TB)
• Has worked with microservices.

Person Characteristics

• Will ask lots of intelligent questions
• Great communication skills - whether written / verbal you must be able to communicate effectively, primarily with technical but also other staff and stakeholders
• Have a keen interest in the commercial nature of the business and how your role interacts with outcomes
• Has worked with data manipulation / statistics, particularly testing
• Has front end experience and not afraid to use it
• Wants to work as part of a small team but be a key figure
• Wants to grow with the company, not just a stepping stone
• Cares about the outcome not the process - happy not to be right first time (we rarely are)
• Sees it more as a hobby or passion than just a job - reads up on latest technology etc

Benefits

For the right candidate, you can expect in return a salary of up to £60k p/a with strong opportunities to cement yourself in the business and grow and develop.

They offer a remote working model which can be discussed in more detail on application.

Permanent contract, Mon-Fri

Contributory pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

• Pool table in the office
• Casual dress code
• Away days
• Access to training and learning and many other incentives