PHP Developer - remote

Role: PHP Developer

Framework: Any - e.g. Laravel, Yii, Symfony.

Salary: £35k - £45k

Industry: Digital Agency and Product Design

Working: FULLY REMOTE - can consider people based in Europe.

CX Squared have the honour of working with one of Birmingham's best digital and product agency's in the region. It's our role as their talent partner, to shout about their culture and help build their back-end development team. This team is responsible for designing, building and optimising digital products and services for a multitude of different brands and organisations.

Projects:

This might range from a proof-of-concept demo or a single sprint MVP build to a custom API that powers mobile and web apps, to a fully CMS driven website or internationally distributed cloud based system. The beauty of the role is that you will be fully involved with every step from the ideation, scoping and design, through to ensuring that products are delivered to match the agreed functionality, spec and finish.

The role
Their fleet of websites are primarily PHP based, using either WordPress or Laravel. This consists of APIs and Headless Content management systems that provide data and services to their React applications built with Next.js.

Your role will be vital to their customer projects and you will need to have both strong backend skills - ideally in PHP - to build websites and applications.

In this role, you'll find yourself:

Planning, designing and implementing multi-layered web applications using a suitable PHP framework.
Building CMS Applications within Laravel, Nova or any other suitable open source framework
Playing an active role in a fully Agile team, based around the Scrum framework
Creating deployments for microservice applications
Creating and networking with public and private REST APIs
Writing modular, configurable, reusable, DRY PHP
Explaining concepts and ideas to non-technical users
Mentoring more junior members of the engineering team

Your Experience:

Experience architecting systems from the ground up (dedicated and cloud, database design and data flow)
Core proficiency with PHP and a familiarity with other languages
Able to demonstrate a working knowledge of the git version control system from time within at least a mid sized team (branching/pull requests etc)
Experience working collaboratively within product teams
Experience architecting and deploying production applications
Experience maintaining codebases to ensure they are resilient (error handling, knowing when to refactor)
Performed in a senior role within a development team, actively contributing to the development of other individuals through mentoring, coaching or pair programming
Could demonstrate knowledge of the React framework - nice to have
Experience of other Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google - nice to have.

There are many PHP Developer roles out there, but not many to work with an organisation who have carved their own reputation through brilliant code, applications and products over the years. The people in this business have ben there for years, and people rarely leave, because they feel the love.

For a confidential conversation, get in touch with Dan Rodrigues on 07825 444 051.

Role: PHP Developer

Framework: Any - e.g. Laravel, Yii, Symfony.

Salary: £35k - £45k

Industry: Digital Agency and Product Design

Working: FULLY REMOTE - can consider people based in Europe.

Projects:

Your role will be vital to their customer projects and you will need to have both strong backend skills - ideally in PHP - to build websites and applications.

In this role, you'll find yourself:

Planning, designing and implementing multi-layered web applications using a suitable PHP framework.
Building CMS Applications within Laravel, Nova or any other suitable open source framework
Playing an active role in a fully Agile team, based around the Scrum framework
Creating deployments for microservice applications
Creating and networking with public and private REST APIs
Writing modular, configurable, reusable, DRY PHP
Explaining concepts and ideas to non-technical users
Mentoring more junior members of the engineering team

Your Experience:

Experience architecting systems from the ground up (dedicated and cloud, database design and data flow)
Core proficiency with PHP and a familiarity with other languages
Able to demonstrate a working knowledge of the git version control system from time within at least a mid sized team (branching/pull requests etc)
Experience working collaboratively within product teams
Experience architecting and deploying production applications
Experience maintaining codebases to ensure they are resilient (error handling, knowing when to refactor)
Performed in a senior role within a development team, actively contributing to the development of other individuals through mentoring, coaching or pair programming
Could demonstrate knowledge of the React framework - nice to have
Experience of other Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google - nice to have.

For a confidential conversation, get in touch with Dan Rodrigues on 07825 444 051.

Digital Account Executive

Salary: £20k - £25k

Location: Birmingham, Jewellery Quarter

Remote Working - 2 days a month in office for collaboration and meetings

CX Squared are the exclusive talent partner to a hospitality digital and fully-digital marketing led agency who are dominating the hospitality space with their technology projects and in-house innovation.

The business that has rocketed in the last 3 years and you will get the chance to be part of the web and digital account's team who manage different accounts across hospitality and automotive.

This role will help to plan and deliver effectively to their clients with a specific focus on their website and technical clients. You'll be co-ordinating multiple projects simultaneously to achieve excellent client service, output and outcomes and also be developing good relationships with their digital and website clients which includes support on large website builds as well as primary day-to-day contact with ongoing website maintenance and support clients.

Responsibilities:

Support the day-to-day delivery of projects on designated accounts
Ensure all account admin is in place - contact reports, statuses etc. as required
Possess an understanding of your clients' objectives and collaboratively work with your team and with internal departments to deliver on these aims
Develop long-term successful relationships with clients to encourage retention and satisfaction
Develop personally by keeping up-to-date with the latest digital trends, technologies and opportunities
Provide high-quality briefs, idea generation and campaign execution
Become familiar with relevant legal and regulatory restrictions relevant to the campaigns you're involved in
Take ownership of the accuracy of work you're involved with
Take ownership of understanding results and ensuring that these are fed to the senior team to inform onward strategies and tactics
Foster positive internal relationships with different departments
Positively support and demonstrate the agency's values, personality and essence
Ensure that all written output is to corporate standards
Ensure that the terms and stipulations outlined in the staff handbook are understood and adhered to
Protect the agency's commercial interests at all times with special regard to income and relationships

Give Dan Rodrigues a call to find out more, or send in your CV for a confidential chat.

Please note: this role will require you to be in the office, this is a remote role where you will travel to the offices 2 days a month or when there are client meetings, which are a ten minute walk from New Street or you can get to the Jewellery Quarter Station as well.