Full-time, Permanent
PHP/Full Stack Developer – Sheffield
£35,000-45,000 a year

Pipe & Piper is an established and innovative software business providing bespoke cloud-based web solutions and mobile application development to public and private organisations operating across most business sectors.

We are looking for an experienced and talented developer to add to our team as part of our planned growth for the business in order to accommodate increasing demand from new and existing clients. We have a relaxed and flexible working environment operating from a former airport control tower with options for “working from home”.

We take an open-minded approach to development and the right candidate should embrace learning new technologies, managing junior members of the team and be an effective time-planner. They should furthermore have the confidence to use their own knowledge and experience to enhance our existing portfolio, progress existing features and make improvements to our client’s systems.

The role will primarily comprise of working on complex projects, developing bespoke web systems and mobile apps whilst mentoring junior members of the team. Time planning and the ability to break projects down into smaller sub-projects covering all aspects of the development lifecycle will be integral.

Responsibilities:
Writing scalable, secure, reusable and testable code
Maintaining & optimising existing codebases in both modern and legacy PHP projects
Supervise and mentor junior members of the team
Overseeing front-end development
Managing DB systems of large scale and demand
Contributing to all aspects of a development lifecycle
Effective at time/project management

Requirements:
Experience in a LAMP environment
Excellent understanding of PHP 7/8 (OOP, MVC and use of frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony or Zend)
Excellent knowledge MySQL
Good knowledge of Nodejs
Experience with JS frameworks such as Angular, React, Ember or VueJS
Experience with RESTful APIs (JSON, XML)
Prolific with HTML5, CSS3, SASS
Experience with MS Office suite including Teams

Bonus points for:
Experience with Cordova
Knowledge of PHP Smarty
Understanding of iOS/Android OS
Understanding of Gulp workflow automation
Experience with source control (ideally Git & Github)
Exposure to Test Driven Development
eCommerce Experience
Linux administration

Qualifications & Experience:
4 years commercial experience minimum

Benefits:
Relaxed & modern working environment
Flexible working hours
Working from home
30+ days paid holiday
Top of the range company laptop
Pension scheme
Regular salary reviews & bonus scheme
Travel contributions / company car
Free on-site parking
Cycle to work scheme
In close proximity to (Nursery, Costa Coffee, Cafes, Parkway/M1 transport links)
Subsidised office events/nights out

REF: PPSD04

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