Senior Frontend & PHP Developer
Location: Remote (UK based essential)
Salary: Circa £40-£50k per annum
Our client
Our client, since 2008, have been transforming the lives of thousands of smokers and vapers with their amazing combination of e-liquids, devices and of course their expert team which is now 360 people strong and growing! They are seeking to engage a Senior Frontend & PHP Developer to join their ranks.
Summary of position
- Primarily responsible for the development, maintenance and support of the TW Group e-commerce estate, throughout multiple websites, within a mixed real estate of platforms including Magento 2, Laravel, Wordpress and others.
- Working on projects and change requests, from creation to resolution.
- Identifying, troubleshooting and resolving ad hoc system/website matters.
- Development, creation and implementation of custom websites.
- Working on multiple APIs and various systems integrations.
- Testing the product in controlled, real situations before going live
Roles and responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and delivery of technical solutions on the e-commerce estate (both Magento and other platforms).
- Production of web solutions based on business and technical requirements.
- Re-engineer and refactor existing code / extensions as required and write tests.
- Internal development of Magento 2 modules in separate code repositories and release cycles.
- Communicate status and blockers to the project management teams, and to line management.
- Writing and implementing efficient code.
- Developing quality assurance procedures.
- Internal support, bug fixing and investigations.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Well-grounded in software architecture and development best practices
- Strong knowledge of OOP PHP
- Laravel or any other modern PHP framework experience
- Experience with MySQL and database design
- Familiarity with GIT and version control workflows
- Solid understanding of source code management and best practices
- Strong frontend development experience with Vue.js 2/3
- Experience with Vite for modern frontend tooling
- Styling proficiency with TailwindCSS and SASS
- Understanding of RESTful API development and integration
Desirable
- Commercial experience in e-commerce websites
- Experience with Magento 2
- Exposure to other modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular)
- Progressive Web App (PWA) development experience
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with Cloud-based technologies (Containers, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience writing unit and integration tests for both frontend and backend
If you feel you have the relevant experience, we’d love to hear from you….apply today!
