Backend Developer

*Company Share Option Scheme*

Job description

The Role:

You will be joining an established team of agile PHP developers building, improving and monitoring our product platform (built on the CodeIgniter framework). You’ll be working closely with the product owner, project manager and front end developers to build solid, high performance data-driven applications for both B2C and B2B users. This role includes monitoring the platform out of hours and acting where required. This work is on a rota, and you would be needed to be on-call 1 week a month on average.

You’ll be mostly remote, with occasional travel to our central Guildford office to work with a cross-functional team to collaborate in short design/development sprints. This is an opportunity to work with an agile team to build software that can make a real difference to our clients and their customers.

The Essentials:

You will have:

• At least 3- to 5-years’ PHP and MVC experience, in CodeIgniter or Laravel

• A demonstrable understanding of the importance of writing secure code

• Very strong SQL knowledge

• Experience in version control (GIT), CI processes and build/deploy tools

• Experience in all stages of the development lifecycle, from technical design through to code review and unit testing

• Built RESTful and/or SOAP APIs to expose and consume data

• *nix administration skills (Ubuntu), including web and mail servers

• Automated debug and unit test skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

The Desirables:

Ideally, you’ll have experience working with:

• Vue.js or other JavaScript frameworks

• Agile teams

• Technical design and UML

• EPOS/till systems

• Working in the hospitality sector

The Company: Feed It Back is a leading player in the Online Reputation Management (ORM) space and over the last few years has helped build reputations for some of the biggest and best hospitality brands in the UK, including Las Iguanas, Marco Pierre White, Loungers and GBK. Through our uniquely tailored ecosystem consisting of EPOS-linked personalised surveys, review management system, and our customer engagement platform (new version coming soon!), our clients can ensure the best understanding, retention and satisfaction at every stage of the customer journey. As a company, we’re emerging from the COVID pandemic having lost no staff and as strong as ever. We’re doubling the size of the product team to further enhance our industry leading platform and introduce some exciting new products.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £55,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Profit sharing
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Flexitime

Application question(s):

• Will you be able to travel to the head office in Guildford from time to time?

Experience:

• Laravel or CodeIgniter: 3 years (preferred)
• Vue.js: 2 years (preferred)
• SQL: 3 years (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Remote