Developer
Canterbury / Work from Home
£27-36k DOE
VR/02888J

Our client is looking for Developers to join their team remotely or at their offices in Canterbury. If you are a Software Engineering or Computer Science graduate, or a motivated self-learner with at least two years of commercial experience then we'd love to hear from you.

They are strong believers in open source - their core platforms are Angular, React, Drupal, Laravel, Symfony, WordPress and Node. You'll also get to work with a wide variety of the latest technologies. Their diverse client portfolio means they need to apply many different technologies in different situations. Recent projects have included developing isomorphic React applications, producing strongly typed functional code, deployment pipelines to Google Firebase and AWS Lambda, building Dockerised infrastructure, and contributing to open source projects.

If you want to develop your craft, care about technical excellence and have the communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with colleagues and directly with clients, then this will be a great role for you.

Benefits include:

• Flexible working hours and locations - the ideal candidate will be happy to travel to the Canterbury office at least once a week
• 24 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• An annual personal £250 wellness fund, which you can spend on improving your health and wellbeing
• Equipment budget of up to £500 each calendar year, to spend at your discretion on anything that helps you do your job better
• Company pension
• Training budget
• Peer recognition scheme
• Tax-free cycles and e-cycles
• Paid sabbaticals - In the calendar year when you reach five years of continuous employment with the company, you get a five-week sabbatical!

Here’s what to expect:

• Develop innovative, high-quality technical solutions that really do the job
• Build relationships with clients and helping them to achieve their goals
• Use your insight to help plan and drive project delivery
• Develop your technical specialism
• Contribute code and experience back to the open source community
• Research new technologies and ways of delivering projects
• Present and rationalise your work internally and to our clients
• Maintain and champion high-quality technical standards for all the agency’s output.

Who we're looking for:

• A Software Engineering or Computer Science degree OR at least two years of demonstrable on-the-job experience of commercial web development
• A commitment to learning the core platforms to their high standards
• A dedication to coding excellence and continuous personal development
• Great written and face to face communication skills
• An ability to work well in a cross-disciplinary project team

Added bonuses:

• Worked with a good range of third party APIs
• Experience of delivery using an Agile software methodology
• Contributed code to an Open Source project
• Experience working with JavaScript frameworks like React or Angular
• Linux command line and server administration skills
• Familiarity using Symfony components
• Familiarity with the Laravel framework
• Certified PHP Engineer
• Certified Drupal Developer
• Presented at tech meet-ups or conferences