PHP Developer in Bristol

Job Overview

Job title: Developer Salary: Competitive Location: In person in central Bristol o9ice Tue-Thu, wfh Mon/Fri Worktribe is a successful, friendly and fast-growing SaaS company providing a market- leading research and teaching platform for universities. We have an exciting opportunity for two full-time developers to join our a9able team in central Bristol. We\’re looking for 5+ years experience in full stack web application development, mostly back-end with some front-end work. You\’ll be fast, accurate, good-natured and enjoy an agile development approach. You\’ll be keen to get involved in the product design, learning the domain, contributing ideas on structure, technology and usability and developing the rich user interfaces that make our products stand out. You will receive training and support in our products from your development colleagues, before being expected to contribute to the team. Please note, we\’re oldskool developers who, through long experience, favour procedural programming style over OOP and tight secure hand-rolled code over generic frameworks and libraries wherever possible. This isn’t hard-and-fast but it’s a philosophy borne of years of real-world experience and it’ll be helpful if you are comfortable with this approach.

Required Abilities

• Back-end: PHP
• Front-end: Javascript, React, HTML/CSS frameworks
• Databases: MySQL, SQL Server / Postgres experience an advantage
• Version control: Git
• Strong security practices
• Excellent visual, verbal and written communication
• Attention to detail
• Good timekeeping
• Good interpersonal skills

Ideal Candidate

• Keen eye for usability and interface design
• Technical writing skills
• Networking and server admin awareness
• An informal, friendly style to match our company culture.

Interview Process

Please provide an indication of candidate’s expectation of salary and years of experience when you send the CV. Please also ensure candidate can provide an example of their code (Github link or screenshot).

1. Stage 1: Quick informal 10-15 min video chat with candidate to gauge fit, likeability and can show an example of their work here if poss.
2. Stage 2: Invite candidates to come in for an open discussion with a couple of our team to assess fit on both sides; this can be based around an example of some code they\’ve written and/or a project they\’re currently engaged with