Web Developer (HTML5, SASS/CSS, Javascript & PHP)


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Recruiter

Gear4Music

Listed on

14th June 2017

Location

Manchester

Salary/Rate

£30000 - £40000

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Who we are - the company, the dev team.

Gear4music was launched in 2003, and has become the largest UK-based online retailer of musical instruments and equipment. In 2012 we launched in 15 different languages, in 2016 we expanded our distribution hubs into Europe, opening in Sweden and later Germany. We are now the "fastest growing music retailer in the world" according to US industry magazine The Music Trades. We have also been recognised by the London Stock Exchange Group’s ‘Companies to Inspire Britain’ and have secured a place in the IRUK’s top 100 as one of the fastest growing and dynamic SME’s in the UK, having shown consistent revenue growth over several years, significantly outperforming our competitors.

Our dedicated Web & PHP development team has been established in Manchester for almost 15 years. At the start of 2017, the team was officially brought in-house and has become part of the Gear4music family, allowing us to ramp-up our capability to bring key projects online faster, innovate and generally do more awesome stuff!

As part of our continued investment in the team we are moving to larger state of the art facilities in the centre of Manchester, allowing us to cultivate even greater creativity, and collaboration.

We are growing, come and grow with us.

Job overview

Being at the forefront of online retail requires continual investment and development in our front and back-end web systems.

We're looking for creative web developers who can bring fresh ideas from all areas enabling us to develop a market leading e-commerce website and provide the best customer experience possible. We need versatile developers who display leadership qualities and are enthusiastic about tackling new problems across a range of business areas.

Our senior developers aren't just great coders; they raise the bar for the whole business. They share their knowledge across the organisation, mentor upcoming talent and, more than anyone else, 'get it' and get it done.

Responsibilities

Interface development with HTML5 SASS/CSS, Javascript and PHP. You will be responsible for feature development and testing, adding business value and boosting conversions. You will collaborate with key stakeholders and team members to define feature specifications and be involved in technical discussions. Working with the operations team you’ll help improve the architecture while building and scaling back-end services and build new features with consideration for testability and extensibility. You will ensure that technical decisions support our goals of performance, quality, reliability, scalability and security.

Experience

A background in commercial development, most likely on e-commerce or high volume transnational systems. A solid understanding of interface development with HTML5, SASS/CSS, JavaScript (including frameworks - AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQuery, ExtJS) and a background in OO PHP and associated practices. A track record of constant learning and understanding of software patterns.

Strongly Preferred

- An interest in performance (from micro-optimisations in PHP code, MySQL schemas a queries through to progressive web)

- Experience with Cloud Computing

- Production experience with UNIX/Linux environments

- Experience building highly scalable and complex distributed systems

- Strong MySQL knowledge, working with large & complex schemas, an interest in performance

- Experience with any of the following is a plus (but none are required): Elasticsearch, Solr, Composer, Vagrant, Capistrano, Puppet, GitHub, Continuous Integration, Jenkins, Codeception, PHPUnit, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, App Engine, Datastore, xhprof.

Benefits

Our reward package is designed to offer you a great salary and a comprehensive range of employee benefits including but not limited to; Share options, employee pension scheme, staff discount on all musical equipment and much more.

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