Junior Web Developer / Web Developer

We are a fast growing staircase manufacturer with a fantastic opportunity available to join our team!

Working alongside our senior Developer, we are looking for someone to support our Team on a range of exciting new projects.

Responsibilities

Our ideal candidate is enthusiastic, eager to learn, and has the ability to quickly pick up new skills. You will be challenged daily in an exciting and ever-changing environment, and will work alongside colleagues in all areas of the business, and will be able to make a real difference to the company.

Key accountabilities

• Maintain our existing systems, learning from them at the same time
• Implement design changes and new features
• Fix bugs
• Support planned and reactive changes

Essential

• Has strong knowledge of JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, PHP (version 7 and 8)
• Experience using Laravel (version > 8)
• Strong attention to detail
• Desire to learn new technologies
• Git source control

Desirable

• A minimum of 1 year commercial experience
• Has worked with and improved legacy code
• Experience using cloud providers (i.e. Google Cloud Platform, AWS).
• Experience using Laravel Forge
• Experience of the Laravel ecosystem
• Basic MySQL knowledge
• Experience using frontend frameworks such as Vue
• Experience writing testable code
• Ability to resolve problems and apply code to business processes

Personal

• Enthusiasm for the role and software development in general
• Hard working and proactive
• Thrives in a challenging and fast-paced environment
• Resilient and maintains a positive attitude at all times

Hours of work: 8:00am - 5:00pm Monday to Friday

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £30,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

Benefits

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Store discount
• Wellness programme

Schedule

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate

• Stoke-on-Trent: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person