Back End Developer at Walulel

In this key role, after an initial acclimatisation period, you’ll have the opportunity to further hone and demonstrate your web development skills, whilst building a dynamic database driven website. You will help to optimise the company’s development environment whilst working closely with the front-end development team. As it’s a start-up, from day one you’ll be considered a key member of the team, and you’ll be in a role where your opinion always matters. You’ll also be involved in all aspects of the product development lifecycle. In addition, there will also be a certificated training programme to capture your growth journey.

Are you the person we’re looking for?

We need a talented developer with a strong grasp of PHP, SQL and WAMP/LAMP frameworks. Most importantly, we want people who are looking to join an innovative start-up, offering great scope for career development and future growth.

As a back-end Developer, you will be responsible for developing the back-end of websites and writing adaptable code for use by the public and our client base. You will also be responsible for debugging problems and offering critical support to other members of the team. Additionally, you will ensure smooth integration with existing libraries and command line utilities.

As a minimum we need people who have:

• Experience of both PHP and (some familiarity with Python), with a solid knowledge of object oriented programming written in enterprise-class reusable, testable, and efficient JavaScript;
• Some experience with the MVC framework (preferably Laravel);
• World beating SQL skills, including database design, development and optimisation;
• Some familiarity with and/or a working knowledge of front-end technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Vue;
• World class recent experience of development working with the Windows Command Line;
• Understanding of Bash/Shell Scripting and its applicability; and
• Experience of writing scalable presentation-server code with associated server API tests and the documentation specific to developed APIs and component implementations.

What else would be good?

• Bachelors/Masters level (or higher) degree in Computer Science (or a similar/related field);
• Extensive hands-on development experience with a viewable portfolio;
• Knowledge of source control systems, such as Mercurial and/or GIT;
• Previous experience of working with Amazon Web Services, including EC2, S3, Cloud Front and Route 53;
• Experience of working with other scalable hosted solutions; and
• Experience of working on mobile and/or responsive web projects.

Other information

Unlike other companies we work a four-day week (Monday to Thursday), but we pay a full-time salary. Now if that isn’t reason enough to apply, we don’t know what is! Pay wise, our primary concern is with getting the best talent to be on on our team, so whatever you can convince us you’re worth, we’d be happy to pay.