Role: PHP Developer - Senior and Lead level

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

Salary: £35k - £60k - d.o.e

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 - Senior and Lead level

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

Salary: £35k - £60k - d.o.e

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.

Senior PHP Developer

Remote / Office is in Birmingham (travel once a month for collab)

Salary: £45k - £65k + share options

CX Squared are partnered with a community focused social platform tech company in the heart of Birmingham whom are looking to expand as they build in to Seed.

They want a Senior PHP Developer to join their tech team who loves the start-up vibe will not be put off by a problem but instead will lean into them.

Core Behaviors

• Put The Users and Community Creators First.
• Great communication - where no problem is too big. Being available and supportive to build relationships
• Turn the complex, simple. Help take big ideas and make them seamless and fun for the people using technology
• Collaborate across the team. Working together across functions helps everyone move fast. Together, let's use data and insight to drive changes for the betterment of the community
• You love to problem solve. Present solutions not problems always, say how things could be done.
• Test first, perfect later. Time is important to you. You lean towards MVPs rather than fully developed until validated
• Always lean to Action. Even if there's doubt, put your best foot forwards and we'll figure it out as a team as we go
• To fail is to learn. To learn is to succeed. Stay curious, have a passion for learning, self development, sharing, expressing views and have fun on the journey.

You would be a good fit for this role if you have most or all:

• Have experience building large API platforms with a modern PHP framework such as Laravel or Symfony
• Have experience with microservices and/or the gradual process of migrating a monolith to microservices
• Are knowledgeable of the SDLC and are comfortable working closely with front end and app engineers to take a feature from concept through to maintenance
• Can write clean, reusable and testable code based on SOLID principles
• Work in an iterative way via continuous improvement
• Have written production software utilising the 12 Factor App approach
• Have experience with Git and Jira
• Can accurately forecast the effort to deliver work (and/or identify unknowns that may make estimations difficult), and communicate the specifics clearly in non-technical language
• Understand the unique demands faced by a small team in a startup company
• Love taking ideas from inception through to development and deployment quickly, working with agile frameworks
• Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as book club, functional meet up, blameless post-mortems, architecture review, war games, hack days
• You'll own your code through its entire lifecycle, including deployment to production

The following experience would also be beneficial, but are not hard requirements:

• CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of (or willingness to learn) Golang

Why this role might not be a good fit for you:

• If you're not curious around the customer problems and ask questions
• If you like tasks handed to you, rather than helping identify them yourself
• If you don't like working within a distributed or remote team
• If you're not always looking to self-develop and contribute to a team
• If you aren't willing to get stuck in to day-to-day tasks to help the team
• If data isn't your bag

Working hours

They embrace all working styles and appreciate that traditional working hours are not inclusive for everyone. They work 8 hours a day (plus one hour for lunch) and offer flexitime if you have commitments in the morning or afternoon such as school drop-offs.

Benefits

• Fully remote position - we do have an office too for occasional team meetings and potential working arrangements
• MacBook Pro with additional monitor
• Budget for conferences and training
• Pension
• Monthly stipend to cover a subscription of your choosing, such as Spotify, Netflix or a gym membership

Get your CV in to Dan Rodrigues or get in touch for a confidential chat for further information.

Senior PHP Developer

Remote / Office is in Birmingham (travel once a month for collab)

Salary: £45k - £65k + share options

CX Squared are partnered with a community focused social platform tech company in the heart of Birmingham whom are looking to expand as they build in to Seed.

They want a Senior PHP Developer to join their tech team who loves the start-up vibe will not be put off by a problem but instead will lean into them.

Core Behaviors

• Put The Users and Community Creators First.
• Great communication - where no problem is too big. Being available and supportive to build relationships
• Turn the complex, simple. Help take big ideas and make them seamless and fun for the people using technology
• Collaborate across the team. Working together across functions helps everyone move fast. Together, let's use data and insight to drive changes for the betterment of the community
• You love to problem solve. Present solutions not problems always, say how things could be done.
• Test first, perfect later. Time is important to you. You lean towards MVPs rather than fully developed until validated
• Always lean to Action. Even if there's doubt, put your best foot forwards and we'll figure it out as a team as we go
• To fail is to learn. To learn is to succeed. Stay curious, have a passion for learning, self development, sharing, expressing views and have fun on the journey.

You would be a good fit for this role if you have most or all:

• Have experience building large API platforms with a modern PHP framework such as Laravel or Symfony
• Have experience with microservices and/or the gradual process of migrating a monolith to microservices
• Are knowledgeable of the SDLC and are comfortable working closely with front end and app engineers to take a feature from concept through to maintenance
• Can write clean, reusable and testable code based on SOLID principles
• Work in an iterative way via continuous improvement
• Have written production software utilising the 12 Factor App approach
• Have experience with Git and Jira
• Can accurately forecast the effort to deliver work (and/or identify unknowns that may make estimations difficult), and communicate the specifics clearly in non-technical language
• Understand the unique demands faced by a small team in a startup company
• Love taking ideas from inception through to development and deployment quickly, working with agile frameworks
• Engage in a culture of continuous improvement by attending events such as book club, functional meet up, blameless post-mortems, architecture review, war games, hack days
• You'll own your code through its entire lifecycle, including deployment to production

The following experience would also be beneficial, but are not hard requirements:

• CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of (or willingness to learn) Golang

Why this role might not be a good fit for you:

• If you're not curious around the customer problems and ask questions
• If you like tasks handed to you, rather than helping identify them yourself
• If you don't like working within a distributed or remote team
• If you're not always looking to self-develop and contribute to a team
• If you aren't willing to get stuck in to day-to-day tasks to help the team
• If data isn't your bag

Working hours

They embrace all working styles and appreciate that traditional working hours are not inclusive for everyone. They work 8 hours a day (plus one hour for lunch) and offer flexitime if you have commitments in the morning or afternoon such as school drop-offs.

Benefits

• Fully remote position - we do have an office too for occasional team meetings and potential working arrangements
• MacBook Pro with additional monitor
• Budget for conferences and training
• Pension
• Monthly stipend to cover a subscription of your choosing, such as Spotify, Netflix or a gym membership

Get your CV in to Dan Rodrigues or get in touch for a confidential chat for further information.