Developer (React)

Salary: £36,000 – £108,000 per year

**** Fantastic opportunity to join an exciting industry-leading business ****

Our client is seeking front end, or back end or full stack Developers. Either front end React devs, back end PHP Devs (Symfony or Laravel ideal) or Full Stack JS / PHP Devs. Looking from junior level (25k – 35k) to mid (35k to 55k) to senior (55k to 70k) and lead (up to c90k). The role can be mostly remote but they would ideally like the candidate to come to the office at least one day per week.

The office is based in Colchester. They will consider fully remote for excellent candidates so please do get in touch with your CV if you are interested?

Our client is a multi-award winning, industry leading, distributor of branded promotional merchandise. 

As one of the biggest promotional merchandise distributors in the UK they work for some of the largest institutions in the UK including Amazon, Sony Music, The NHS, ITV, Starbucks, Bosch and some of the largest UK universities including King’s College London and The Open University.

Now is an incredible time to join the team, due to continued success and expansion, they are looking to expand the team of software engineers with positions open to juniors, mid-weight, senior, and lead developers.

The Role

The successful candidate will be working closely with the existing software engineering team to develop new systems that are set to disrupt and revolutionise the industry. 

Key tasks may include:

• Software development using React to build user-centric front-ends
• Designing and building API endpoints and back-end controllers in Symfony
• Investigating new and emerging technologies and applying them to our existing tech stack
• Working closely with others in the software development team to manage and plan projects
• Working with UI/UX designers to plan and develop user journeys
• Discussing new product requirements with product owners to develop new solutions
• Releasing units of work to production and monitoring releases
• Provisioning cloud resources and environments for new projects

Key technologies/tech stack used:

• PHP 8, Symfony 5, Doctrine, PHPUnit
• JavaScript, React, Hooks, React SSR, Axios, Styled Components, Formic, Webpack
• Fastly, Varnish, VCL, Nginx
• MySQL (Aurora)
• Linux, Docker, Alpine, Debian
• AWS, RDS (Aurora), EC2, Lambda (Bref), ElasticCache (Redis), S3, VPC, SES, SNS
• Git, GitLab
• ElasticSearch, Kibana

Requirements

As a requirement, applicants require strong experience in at least one front-end or one back-end ecosystem. This would be ideally React + PHP, however, candidates with knowledge of other languages or frameworks are also suitable for this role.