PHP Developer

On demand delivery has never been so in demand. E-commerce has seen 5 years worth of growth in the past 12 months, and online grocery has gone nuts, bananas and crackers. Then add into the mix ever tighter margins, and all-time-high customer expectations (thanks Prime) and you see why better, and faster and more efficient delivery is so in demand.

Gophr is a delivery tech company that is reimagining same day delivery to make it work better for everyone involved; the businesses who need things delivered, their customers, and the couriers delivering to those customers. This is what we mean by great delivery, and this is what drives our vision. To give all businesses access to great delivery and all couriers access to great business.

As the Back-end Developer your role will be to drive forward the next evolution of our new courier and customer product suite. You will work with our Product Owners, UI/UX team and technical team to deliver a product development roadmap that’s been created from years of hard-won operational experience, coupled with a lot of serious thinking about how to deliver automated solutions that cover every single aspect of last-mile delivery.

This is a highly complex undertaking, and a role for someone who is interested in taking on big challenges. We’re recruiting a number of backend PHP developers so your role and responsibilities will depend on your seniority, experience and ability to learn and improve.

Backend Team is focused on 3 different areas:

• Endpoints: 200+ endpoints and growing used by our frontend and mobile development teams.
• Automation: The whole system of tree-like tasks and events that automate data processing and messaging.
• Backoffice: Internal app used by Gophr Operations Team when providing support to customers and couriers.

As Backend Developer your role will be to:

• Be part of an Agile team responsible for Gophr's Backoffice, APIs and automation.
• Develop high-performance, complex applications running on a scalable cloud platform.
• Drive product ideas forward, from providing creative solutions to execution.
• Use third party APIs to deliver unique features.
• Write testable, modular, reusable code.
• Unit test your own code and participate in peer reviews.
• Focus on processing performance in order to ensure superior user experience on a heavy interaction platforms.
• Continuously work collaboratively to bolster backend architecture design and implementation processes in order to improve quality and efficiency.

Ideally you should be:

• An experienced PHP developer, medium to advanced using any PHP-based MVC framework (Zend, Code Igniter, Laravel, etc.).
• Good in code performance and optimisation.

You will be joining the team that is working on the new booking engine that has the level of complexity similar or even higher than your favourite airline’s booking engine. You will add new features and products to the existing list and will take ownership of it along with the other members of the Backend Team.

What we want from you:

• Someone who’s worked with large databases, and understands how to manage them in a way that enables them to perform at speed.
• Someone who’s enjoyed being part of a collaborative team that takes ideas from anywhere in order to find the best solution.
• You like dealing with complex problems, working with others to interrogate them to a level where you all feel confident that you’re creating elegant, holistic solutions for the users in question.
• You should feel comfortable questioning others on whether the solutions being presented may create more problems down the line.

To be successful as the Backend Developer you will need:

• Experience working with PHP and any PHP-based MVC frameworks (Zend, Laminas, Ubiquity, Symfony, Laravel, Code Igniter).
• Great algorithmic skills.
• Attention to details in order to be able to build complex and scalable platforms.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of testing modern PHP code.

What you’ll get from us:

• Competitive salary package.
• An allowance to spend on the home office set up.
• Monthly benefits through Ben.
• Personal development budget.
• Highly flexible working hours.
• Work from wherever you like.
• Quarterly company retreats and parties.
• Career development - product team is growing by 5x in next 12 months.
• Highly focused on employee wellbeing.
• Mental health days separate to holiday.
• Ideas and feedback driven working environment.
• Committed to sustainability.

Our mission is to build the largest, smartest same-day delivery network in the UK and beyond through technology that empowers professional couriers of all shapes and sizes to build companies that serve their local communities.