Senior Developer

About the job

The Senior Developer role is a pivotal role within the Studio. The role’s focus is to develop performant, PHP-based projects for some really exciting brands, to be delivered on-time and on-budget and interact with clients directly.

Key details

  • Senior Developer
  • Remote role
  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience
  • Digital agency working in the Hospitality, Travel, Food & Drink and Entertainment sectors

Who we are

At Propeller, we’re more than just a digital agency – we’re passionate individuals who love what we do. We’re dedicated to delivering exceptional results for our clients by helping them capture digital attention and turn that attention into more conversions, engagement, and bookings.

Key responsibilities

  • To be fully responsible for the production, modification and maintenance of websites and web application user interfaces, within the allocated budget.
  • To be a key member of an established development team, working closely within a project team, to turn technical briefs into working applications. 
  • You’ll also work closely with front-end developers and designers to implement their front-end code in order to develop complex, content managed, and database driven websites and project managers who will assist in making sure all projects are delivered smoothly.
  • To keep up to date with the latest development technologies and techniques in order to discuss them for inclusion within our websites.
  • To assist in critical support issues where your experience is required to ascertain the issue quickly and to find the more appropriate resolution.
  • To be able to communicate technical issues to non-technical team members and external clients / prospects.
  • To make sure work estimates take into account all possible risks and contain the appropriate contingency.
  • To efficiently manage your workload and accurately record your time using the company timesheet system.

What we offer

  • 25 days’ annual leave (excluding public holidays)
  • £500 annual wellbeing budget to spend on your personal wellbeing
  • Central London office with our own bar, free drinks and snacks
  • Regular social events, parties and after work drinks
  • Treats on your birthday and at Christmas

Requirements

  • Object oriented programming principles with PHP 7 and newer
  • The Symfony PHP framework
  • SQL databases – particularly MySQL 8
  • Integrating with third party APIs
  • Designing and implementing REST APIs
  • Source control using Git & GitHub
  • The Linux command line
  • A basic working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript

It would be useful to have

  • AWS, especially ECS, CloudFront, S3 and AWS Aurora for MySQL
  • Docker
  • Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools – particularly CircleCI
  • Experience with WordPress and specifically the WP REST API
  • Previous agency experience and working as part of a development team to deliver projects and design practical solutions from business rules & requirements

If this sounds like something you might like and you feel you would make a difference to Propeller, we would love to hear from you.