Junior Web Developer / Web Developer

Role Overview & Responsibilities

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