Software Developer - PHP / Javascript / AWS - Manchester

Technical Lead - JavaScript & PHP

We are looking for a Technical Lead to join our engineering team and take technical responsibility for our customer and staff portals, as well as the APIs that power them.

They will work on projects using JavaScript and TypeScript in the Angular framework for frontend, with a plan in progress to migrate to Vue.js. The backend is mostly PHP & Laravel. These systems are used to provide management systems for staff and customers of market research projects.

The Technical Lead in the Portal Team will work with the other Portal developers to develop, improve, and maintain the systems that provide management tools for market research projects, with the support of the Platform & Services Team Lead and other colleagues.

This role is technology focussed and will not include line-management of other staff. However, they will be responsible for the teams’ technical direction and the quality of their code as well as working with the Team Lead to manage incoming development requests, maintenance schedules and technical debt.

About You

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Strong knowledge of programming languages and underlying development concepts to enable them to contribute to work across teams

Ability to define technical specifications based on customer requirements

Ability to clearly explain complex technical issues

System architecture and design

Strong understanding of information security, ISO 27001, and other processes and policies

Knowledge of coding standards

Experience with AWS & Serverless technologies

Strong PHP knowledge utilising the Laravel framework

Strong JavaScript or TypeScript knowledge utilising the Angular or Vue.js frameworks

HTML and CSS

Preferred:

Experience developing privacy centric applications

Experience with optimising SQL queries when working with complex and large data sets

Experience in leading technical projects and steering a team’s technical direction

Software Engineer - JavaScript & PHP

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our engineering team to work on our customer and staff portals, as well as the APIs that power them.

They will work on projects using JavaScript and TypeScript in the Angular framework for frontend, with a plan in progress to migrate to Vue.js. The backend is mostly PHP & Laravel. These systems are used to provide management systems for staff and customers of market research projects.

Software Engineers in the Portal Team will work with the other Portal developers to develop, improve, and maintain the systems that provide management tools for market research projects, with the support of the Platform & Services Team Lead and other colleagues.

About You

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Strong PHP knowledge utilising the Laravel framework

Strong JavaScript or TypeScript knowledge utilising the Angular or Vue.js frameworks

Strong understanding of information security, ISO 27001, and other processes and policies

Knowledge of coding standards

Experience with AWS & Serverless technologies

HTML and CSS

Preferred:

Experience developing privacy centric applications

Experience with optimising SQL queries when working with complex and large data sets

Experience in developing for high availability

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