Senior Full Stack Web Developer - Gingerkid Executive Search : Job Details

About the role

Over the last few years we've rewritten our lead generation engine API in Symfony, launched a partner dashboard in Vue3 and built an internal CRM. We've proven our business model can work for any service. We are now focused on expanding our offerings, optimising our conversion rates and improving our infrastucture.

We're now looking for an enthusiastic developer to collaborate with the team to add features and improve the existing. This is a fantastic time to join as we are on the brink of clearing some tech debt that will free us up to upgrade to the latest versions of the stack.

The successful candidate will work closely with Head of Dev and other seniors to develop strategy and processes, coach and mentor developers and lead on projects from conception to completion.

The current tech stack:

• Symfony 5+
• API Platform
• Vue.js
• Craft CMS
• Webpack and Grunt
• MySQL and Doctrine
• HTML/SCSS/JS

Imminent projects include:

• Launching new services
• Extending the B2B dashboard to provide more autonomy for our partners
• Extending our internal CRM to aid the partner support team
• Upgrading our stack
• Consolidating build tools
• Writing a new suite of tests

The ideal candidate

We're looking for a skilled senior developer who can translate a brief into a robust and well architected system. They’ll be able to provide leadership and guidance for the developers tasked to the project.

The ideal candidate will have experience in some of the following:

• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product
• Training, coaching and mentoring developers
• Symfony or a similar framework
• VueJS or similar
• Strong understanding of MySQL and ORMs
• Familiar with integrating APIs
• Best working practices and documentation
• Build tools (Webpack or similar)
• Automated testing

We absolutely require:

• Strong experience with GIT version control
• Experience with HTML, SCSS and JavaScript
• Familiar with package managers, e.g. Composer/NPM
• Comfortable working with existing codebases
• Comfortable identifying and squashing bugs
• Excellent communication skills
• High attention to detail

It would be a bonus if you have any experience in any of the following:

• DevOps pipelines (CI/CD)
• AWS
• Server management
• Docker
• Managing DNS