Midweight PHP Developer

Central Employment are delighted to be working in partnership with a leading and hugely successful eCommerce Retail organisation, as they look to appoint a Midweight PHP Developer. 

Up to £35k DOE 
1 day WFH option 
A range of excellent staff benefits 
Ongoing personal development opportunities

Purpose of the Mid-weight PHP Developer: 
We’re looking for someone who is keen to hit the ground running with in-house web development projects, including a mix of new features, improvements and bug fixes as well as bigger projects. You'll be maintaining the current portfolio of e-commerce stores and also be involved in longer term projects that will help the company grow.

Key responsibilities of the Mid-weight PHP Developer: 

• Implementing new features and fixing bugs for the current portfolio of eCommerce stores
• Maintaining and optimising infrastructure to provide best performance
• across all stores
• Carrying out regular deployments ensuring stability is top priority
• Carrying out regular code reviews
• Implementing integrations between Magento, our in-house systems and 3rd
• Party services like Nosto and DotDigital
• Building bespoke modules to accomplish business requirements
• Providing estimates for scope of work
• Carrying out stringent testing on all sites and projects ensuring effective
• functionality is maintained
• Using industry insight and initiative to discover new ways to improve the
• current website portfolio
• Providing support for the in-house team with technical queries and troubleshooting current stores' portfolio
• Mentoring junior team members

Key skills we’re looking for:

• At least 2 years of experience working in a commercial environment.
• Git/Bitbucket account with examples of your work would be very beneficial.
• Strong knowledge of PHP, MySQL and APIs (REST/GraphQL)
• Strong knowledge of website performance optimisation and security best
• practices
• Strong coding standards and methodologies
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Eager to learn and passionate about web technologies

Desirable experience: 

• Experience in Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce Cloud)