Experienced PHP Developer - Chichester

If you're serious about PHP, there's a job with your name on it at D3R.

About D3R

At D3R, we create wonderful bespoke websites and business systems for new and existing clients in ecommerce, hospitality and beyond. D3R was founded by developers and still over three quarters of our team are technical. We take a long term view. That applies to how we choose our clients, how we write our code, and how we treat our employees.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for developers who are experienced with and enthusiastic about PHP to join our Chichester team. There are many skills and technologies that would be useful, but to be a great fit for this role, you should have experience spending the majority of your time knee deep in object-oriented, modern PHP. As a more experienced developer, you'll also need excellent communication skills and solid commercial understanding. We don't have a traditional project management layer so these skills are vital, both with clients and the rest of the team.

On the technical side, you should have the following skills:

• You feel at home in modern PHP 8 using object-oriented principles to solve complex problems.
• You think and care about code reuse and abstraction, always looking for ways to increase the leverage of the code you write.
• You have experience with at least one PHP framework or have worked with a large, complex application.
• You care about code quality and have put this into practice by testing with PHPUnit or static analysers.
• You're not scared of being a bit of a detective. This could mean jumping into code and following a bug around, working something out with your colleagues when two heads are better than one, or teasing requirements out of a client.
• You have a track record of getting things done and focusing on delivery.
• You are good at predicting how long a piece of work is likely to take and recognising potential risks ahead of time.

There are lots of other skills we like our devs to have and for this role we would expect candidates to be able to demonstrate experience in at least a couple of the following areas:

• AI and agentic coding skills. Ideally you've done enough of this to learn which things AI does well, where it struggles, and how to make good decisions about when you take over to ensure that you are gaining a genuine productivity boost.
• Ecommerce and integrations with payment gateways. If you've been involved with PCI compliance that would be even better.
• Web performance. How to measure it, how to improve it, and what value that might bring a client.
• A deep understanding of SQL (we use MariaDB). How to write complex queries, measure and optimise performance, and design scalable databases.
• Sysadmin and DevOps. We use AWS and CloudFlare along with Debian, Puppet, and Terraform. We are always on the lookout for careful, experienced heads to help us manage and improve our infrastructure.

What we can offer:

• Genuinely engaging work. Nothing we do is off-the-shelf. Being a developer at D3R means you get to make a real difference to our clients' businesses. You won't get bored and you won't stop learning.
• Own it. At D3R everyone has a stake in our success. As an employee owned company, you don't just work here. You help shape our future.
• A package that's hard to beat. Competitive salary, life insurance, dental cover, team lunches, extra earned holiday and even a twice yearly tax-free bonus.
• The chance to progress quickly. Keep rising to the challenge and we'll keep moving you up. It's as simple as that.
• Not the usual 9 to 5. Flex appeal hybrid working option and flexible start.