Senior Developer in Normanton

You'll be joining a lean, close-knit development team that punches well above its weight. The team builds and maintains a suite of ecommerce websites generating serious revenue across both B2B and B2C channels. Not on Shopify. Not on Magento. On a proprietary in-house platform, which means you'll actually get under the bonnet of something genuinely interesting.

The person who's been doing this role is leaving on good terms after three years. He's grown fast, learned a huge amount, and is heading somewhere bigger. That's not a red flag, it's just what happens when a small team does a great job developing people. This time, they want someone who's already done their growing.

What the role actually looks like:

• The team consists of Tom, two junior developers in their first year or so of professional experience, and now you. Tom has led this team for over a decade and knows the platform better than anyone. Your job is to sit alongside him, take real ownership, and start to build out a proper structure underneath both of you.
• Roughly 50 to 60% of your time will be development work, hands on, full stack, across database, back-end services, APIs and front-end. The rest is a growing mix of project coordination, mentoring the juniors, and helping Tom get out of the weeds so he can focus on the bigger picture. It's a supervisory role as much as a technical one, and that's the point.
• You'll have production access from day one. That's not currently the case for the juniors, and it matters.

The stack:

The platform is Java-based and largely proprietary. Nobody else runs it, which makes it unusual and genuinely interesting to work on. Sitting on top of it is a healthy amount of .NET, C#, SQL Server, Entity Framework, Azure DevOps and Git. RESTful APIs, CI/CD pipelines, JavaScript, HTML and CSS all feature too.

Java experience would put you at the top of the list. It's not a hard requirement, but it fills a real gap in the team and there's a meaningful project on the horizon that will need it. If you don't have it, you'll be expected to pick it up, and training support will be in place.

What they won't use: PHP, MySQL. If that's been your world for the past decade, this probably isn't the right fit.

Who they're looking for:

• Three to five years of professional development experience, ideally across both B2B and B2C environments. Someone who has done the learning, made the early mistakes somewhere else, and is now ready to be the experienced person in the room rather than the one being mentored.
• Attitude matters as much as the CV. Tom hires for curiosity, willingness to get stuck in, and the ability to think things through end to end. The juniors are technically capable but still catch things late. You won't.
• They're also looking for someone who wants to stay. The team has a history of developing people brilliantly and then watching them leave for somewhere with more structure. That structure is now being built, and this role is a genuine part of it. If you're the sort of person who moves every 18 months for a pay bump, this probably isn't the right environment. If you want to actually build something and have your name on it, it might be exactly right.

Practical details:

• The office is in Normanton, West Yorkshire. The expectation is four days a week in for the right candidate, though there's flexibility for the right person if location makes that difficult. Remote-only won't work. The team is collaborative and small enough that presence matters.
• Salary up to £50,000. Immediate availability preferred, though a short notice period won't rule you out.

If this sounds like the kind of role where you'd actually thrive rather than just pass through, get in touch.