Senior Developer / Team Lead

In your role as a Senior Developer, you’ll help grow the department by managing development projects for several clients. You’ll understand and get under the skin of a client’s specific business objectives.

The work is fast-paced, with an impressive scope of responsibility. An ideal candidate should have a range of technical skills, good communication skills, and a knack for overcoming obstacles and technical challenges. Most importantly, you will be motivated to take ownership of solutions and deliver great quality work on time, with minimal bugs.

Key responsibilities

• Producing, building, and maintaining all elements of websites, applications, integrations, apps, and online software.
• Handling the entire lifecycle of project development, including writing detailed functional and technical specs and documentation for the rest of the team.
• Providing the best solution for the client using a solution-focused approach.
• Developing the team and always looking at how the development process can be improved.
• Smart operational leadership skills, ensuring team efficiency.
• Quality control of all aspects of development.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Reporting on progress and successes to the management team.
• Working with account and creative teams to find opportunities, develop quotes, proposal documents, and pitch presentations for potential projects.
• Balancing the demands of different customers through strategic team planning.
• Mentoring junior members of the development team

Required knowledge, skills and abilities

• Proficiency with PHP and front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Understanding of OOP, MVC and associated best practices.
• Experience developing and working on WordPress
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of database technologies, such as MySQL / MS SQL Server.
• Product configuration/management, access control, and resolution of end-user issues resulting from configuration errors/conflicts.
• Experience of GIT, familiarity with feature branch concepts, other branching strategies, pull requests and merge processes.

Preferred knowledge, skills and abilities

• Knowledge of current trends in the world of web development.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Experience in delivering digital projects to timescale and budget, reporting where necessary.
• Strong people-management skills.
• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to speak technically to developers and in simple, straightforward terms to our clients.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Effective working within a remote team environment.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Making a VERY good coffee.

Additional stuff we’d love you to understand

• Ionic, Capacitor or Cordova
• Bootstrap V4/V5
• React, Vue.js, Angular or Node.js and frameworks available for it (Express and AdonisJS).
• MVC Frameworks – experience of Laravel preferable, but other such as Codeigniter or YII will suffice.
• Redux, Vuex.
• Experience with task runners, build tools, and bundlers like Gulp, Grunt, Webpack, etc. (or similar).
• Ecommerce systems – WooCommerce, Magento, Zen-Cart or Shopify.
• .NET Web Forms.
• .NET MVC – bespoke application development using an MVC framework such as Umbraco
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Experience using other databases such as Postgres, MongoDB, etc.
• Understanding of containerisation and Docker/Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Linux-based systems and comfortable with the Linux command line