Senior PHP Developer in UK

Location: United Kingdom
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Think
Job Hours: Full-time

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Are you looking for a senior developer role where you can have your say, make a difference and help make us better? Fantastic, we’d make a good match.

As a Senior PHP Developer, we will want you to collaborate working with our existing development team and supporting our drive for innovation for our growing list of clients, whilst adding smart and creative thinking into the mix.We’d love to work alongside a do-er who gets excited by client and team success.

About Think

We’re an integrated agency, offering brand strategy, marketing, and digital services.

Our purpose lies in creating better business (CBB) for our clients. We do this by accelerating growth, managing change, and delivering transformation, and we have developed a range of ‘CBB’ programmes to do this.

We have a happy balance between commercial and creative – so our ideas will always make a positive impact and help move business onwards and upwards.

Our clients span travel, leisure & hospitality, FMCG, health, media, industrial, finance, technology and non-profit. We have a portfolio of clients looking to implement their digital transformation strategies across the UK and internationally. Covering websites, headless CMS, ecommerce, workflow automation, mobile applications, API integrations and consultancy.

 

The Role

  • Develop medium-sized Laravel sites/applications from scratch using designs provided in Figma.
  • Build WordPress sites from scratch with provided Figma designs.
  • Maintain and enhance existing WordPress and Laravel sites developed by other team members.
  • Collaborate with designers and other developers to create visually stunning and highly functional web applications.

 

Requirements

  • Minimum of 4 years of experience in PHP development.
  • At least 2 years of experience with WordPress.
  • At least 2 years of experience in Laravel development.
  • Proficiency with Laravel Nova for creating admin consoles.
  • Strong experience with the WordPress ACF plugin and Gutenberg Blocks.
  • Solid knowledge of TailwindCSS for front-end development.
  • Experience with Vue.js for creating front-end components.
  • Basic knowledge of developer tools such as Docker, Git, SSH, rsync, Xdebug, and PHPUnit.

 

Desirable Skills

  • Familiarity with Roots Bedrock for WordPress alternative folder structures.
  • Experience with Roots Sage for WordPress starter themes.
  • Ability to create custom WordPress plugins.
  • Ability to develop custom Laravel packages and upload them to Packagist.org.
  • Knowledge of GitLab CI/CD configurations or other CI/CD tools.
  • Experience with animating front-end elements using the GSAP library.
  • Experience with WooCommerce and WP Forms plugins for WordPress.

 

We Are Looking For Someone Who…

  • Enjoys sharing their knowledge and ideas to help make us better.
  • Is always looking for ways to add value to the client experience.
  • Is highly organised and pro-active.
  • Has a likeable, sunny, optimistic outlook

 

What you’ll get:

A relaxed, ego-free environment where you get to have your say, are listened to and can make a difference, to help make us better at what we do

31 days holiday (8 bank holidays and 23 days to relax and have fun, which always includes Christmas Eve)

Ad hoc discretionary extra half-day bonus days off to say thanks for outstanding work


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