PHP Software Developer in London

Bluecrest Wellness is an organisation with a strong purpose, vision and goal - we are all about living health confident.

We are on the lookout for a dynamic and highly motivated (PHP) Software Developer to join our Engineering team here at Bluecrest! You will be joining a team of around 20 highly experienced Software Engineers and Testers and will find yourself working closely within an agile delivery team and have the exciting opportunity to contribute to and help shape our technical solutions towards our company vision.

To excel in this role, we would need you to have good experience of PHP and PHP frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony, strong working knowledge of source control using Git (we use Bitbucket). We want you to be passionate about and keep up to date with the latest technology stacks and be a versatile and approachable team player.

If you are ready to make a meaningful impact, then we are ready to have you on board!

What we can offer you in return:

• A competitive salary of up to £45,000 per year
• Four free Health Assessments per year, which can be used by yourself, family or friends
• A further 50% off any additional testing
• 23 days annual leave, rising to 25 days after 1 year, and rising an extra day each year up to 28 days – plus bank holidays on top!
• Sophos@Home protection
• EAP Scheme
• Enhanced family leave
• Life Insurance
• Employee referral bonus scheme of up to £1,000
• Matched company pension (up to 5% or up to capped amount)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Charity Sponsorship Scheme
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Home office allowance – yearly allowance of £130 to make working from home more comfortable!

*After qualifying period & subject to terms and conditions and/or eligibility.

Responsibilities:

• Adhere to and demonstrate clear understanding of key security principles associated with building modern web-based applications.
• Work with applicable frameworks and existing codebases to resolve issues and complete code reviews.
• Ensure you are proficient in the toolsets required to perform day to day duties.
• Work effectively within a team, providing clear updates to Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and team members.
• Collaborate with team members to determine best practices and client requirements for software.
• Maintain a consistent level of professionalism when communicating with colleagues and clients.
• Adhere to coding standards and secure delivery policies and practices.
• Develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the company.
• Actively seek ways to improve business software processes and interactions.
• Work with Product Owner/Scrum Master to scope out work and provide clear estimations.
• Be part of an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture.
• Provide feedback to team members through Code Review process.
• Engage in training and internal workshops and demonstrate a mindset of continuous learning.
• Take ownership of your own technical development.

Working Hours:

Monday to Friday, either 8-4pm or 9-5pm, with one day per week in the Head Office.

Requirements Key Skills:

• Commercial experience with PHP developing in-house core applications.
• Good knowledge of Object Orientated coding and coding Principles.
• Recent use of PHP frameworks such as Laravel.
• Good knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL.
• Proven experience building and maintaining APIs.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.
• Proficient with code versioning tools.
• Prior working experience in Agile methodologies.
• Our systems sit on AWS, so experience with EC2, RDS, S3 and LAMBDA is beneficial but not essential.

Other information:

So, if you think you have some exceptional skills to offer us and Bluecrest feels like a place where you can belong, we would love to learn more about you. If your application is successful, the next steps will be a call from a member of our recruitment team to have the chance to get to know each other even better!

Bluecrest Wellness is a proud promoter of the Equality Act 2010. We believe in fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting diversity in our employment practices. We do not discriminate in employment based on race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, disability, age, marital status, medical history, parental status or genetic information. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and organisational needs. Our mission at Bluecrest is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate difference and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.

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