Full Stack Senior PHP Web Developer

Full Stack Senior PHP Web Developer

Location – Blackburn BB1 8DD

Salary: £40,000-£60,000 + Excellent benefits

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Web Developer to join a growing IT Team of an award-winning law firm.  This is a full-time role working 36.25 hours per week, Monday - Friday, based at the Blackburn Office with the option for hybrid working available.

The ideal candidate will be a senior developer who has strong technical experience working with and creating large-scale web/e-commerce applications and leading and building a development team as well.  This is a hands-on Senior PHP Web Developer / Management role 

Previous Legal or Retail e-commerce experience is desirable but not essential.

Job Title Duties

• All Web Development from concept to delivery
• Provide technical support and perform root cause analysis for all Website / Intranet systems, responding within specified SLAs.
• Troubleshooting, testing and maintaining all existing Web developments
• Solving complex performance problems and technical architectural challenges
• Overseeing the development function
• Planning and delivering development schedule to agreed timelines
• Mentor, support, and management of the development team
• Ability to multitask across different projects
• To manage your personal time to ensure that agreed workloads are completed           
• satisfactorily and to target
• To carry out other tasks as assigned by the IT Director

The ideal candidate will have:

• PHP – advanced
• PHP framework experience (Laravel)
• Object Oriented Programming
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript (jQuery/Ajax/JSON)
• Creation and use of RESTful API’s
• SQL Scripts, Views, Stored Procedures and Functions
• Building scalable websites and applications from concept to delivery in a secure and efficient manor
• Responsive web design
• Designing and building Web Applications that are secure, stable, scalable, fast and reliable
• Excellent knowledge of Azure DevOps and working with a version control system such as Git
• Knowledge/experience of Moodle, Drupal, WordPress, mobile app development, .NET, Python, and C# would be beneficial.

What’s On Offer:  

• 33 Days Annual Leave, including bank holidays
• Annual Leave Purchase Scheme 
• A day off for your Birthday
• Ongoing Training and Development
• Progression Opportunities
• Company Pension
• Service Awards
• Health Care Benefits (Health Cash Back Plan and Mental Health Counselling Services)
• Other Employee Discounts
• Recruitment and Legal Department Referrals
• Annual Events

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