Software Developer

I am currently recruiting a Software Developer for a large, well known client of our in the Blackburn area. Please see the detailed job description below:

Summary of Position

• Primarily responsible for the development, maintenance and support of the 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 & 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 OOPHP
• Laravel / Symphony or any other modern PHP framework experience
• Database experience – MySQL
• Familiarity with GIT
• Commercial experience of e-commerce websites
• Solid understanding of source code

Desirable

• Magento 2 experience
• Exposure to modern JavaScript frameworks e.g. React, Angular or Vue.JS
• Cloud based technologies e.g. Containers, Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Experience writing API’s
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience writing tests

If you are interested in this role please call Daryl @ GPW Recruitment on 01744 454 300 or email daryl . allen @ gpw recruitment . co . uk