Description
We’re an adventurous, award winning and independent creative agency specialising in direct, digital engagement and our list of UK-based and international clients is growing – BT, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, Hastings Direct, MasterCard, Otis Elevators, General Electric, Network Rail, Thorntons, PDSA, RBS and Abellio to name just a few.Even better, we’re recruiting!
The primary role of a developer is to code, test and modify new and existing systems - this may include websites, CMS systems, web applications, intranets and API’s. The duties and responsibilities below should be viewed as a guide, the technical studio encourages the contribution of fresh ideas so this is a fantastic opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills.
Main responsibilities
- Meeting with project managers and account managers to discuss requirements.
- Thinking through requirements and deciding on the best and most intelligent approach.
- Implementing new functionality using the chosen approach. Writing code to a high standard which adheres to best practices and the coding standards adopted in the technical studio.
- Commit code to version control, using git and the approach adopted by the technical studio – creating feature branches, making regular verbose commits, squashing commits and creating pull requests for other team members to approve.
- Review and approve other team members pull requests, offering honest help and advice when required.
- Communicating progress to the project managers and account managers, being clear and honest about any delays or potential issues with delivery.
- Administer and work on web servers, both development and live, taking care to ensure service is not interrupted.
- Attend meetings as required, both internal and client facing.
- Offering help, with a willingness to chip and help the technical studio meet deadlines.
- Contributing the overall performance of the technical studio, suggesting and implementing new ideas, processes or approaches to work.
- Assist with support and maintenance work for existing clients when required.
Desirable Technical Skills
- Experience with Laravel would be almost essential; it is our framework of choice for most new projects!
- You will be experienced with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript/JQuery. If you know AngularJS, VueJS, ReactJS or other javascript frameworks that would be handy and the more you know about Web Services and API’s the better!
How to apply
This is a great chance to work in a vibrant and interesting industry, and for an organisation that’s going places. If you would like to apply for this position, please send your CV to Louise Scott, In-House Recruiter for The Jacob Bailey Group
From £25,000 - £35,000pa (Depending on skills and experience)