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Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: Middlesbrough / Hybrid

Salary: Competitive

Hours of Work: 08:30 – 17:00 (flexible)

Charles Clinkard is a footwear and accessories retailer, operating across 28 retail locations, 17 concessions, 3 online domains as well as several channels and marketplaces.

The business was founded in 1924 in Middlesbrough, England and returned to its roots in 2016 when it built a multi-million-pound, purpose-built head office and warehousing facility.

More recently, the business has made a significant investment in technology, creating a standalone Technology Department, which operates three divisions: IT Operations, Data Science and Software Engineering.

The business has made a strategic decision to develop its key operating systems in-house and is therefore looking to grow its Software Engineering division to support these plans.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Head of Software Engineering, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our PHP-based backends and APIs, as well as our VueJS-based single page application frontend.

You’ll work as part of a small team developing the applications which run our business, where the team’s mission is to improve the organisation’s ways of working through an innovation and software development approach.

This is a relatively new team with exciting greenfield projects on the roadmap, so you’ll be a critical team member contributing to how our architecture and approach evolves.

This is a fantastic opportunity for engineers who like to work as part of a team while being given the time and freedom to learn and develop their skills.

Responsibilities:

  • Designing and implement clean, maintainable, and efficient code for web applications
  • Researching and documenting the technical approach for given requirements
  • Debugging, troubleshooting and resolving bugs and performance issues
  • Writing automated tests to ensure code quality and reliability
  • Supporting team members and working collaboratively towards a joint team goal
  • Performing peer code reviews and providing constructive feedback
  • Working from and tracking progress in our agile project management software
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team’s processes and approaches

About you:

Required Skills

  • Strong knowledge with PHP and its modern ecosystem, including PHP 8.0+, composer, frameworks such as Symfony/Zend/Laminas/Laravel, commonplace libraries such as PHPUnit, and standard approaches such as PSR standards
  • Experienced writing object-oriented code following the SOLID principles, with an understanding of common design patterns and how to implement them
  • Confident with automated testing in PHP including unit tests and integrating tests
  • Experience developing systems with a SQL-based database (MySQL, Postgres, etc), including knowledge of query optimisation
  • Experience with component-based UI frameworks such as React or Vue
  • Good understanding of web security (e.g. OWASP Top 10) and how to prevent common vulnerabilities when developing PHP applications
  • Comfortable with Linux and working from the command line
  • Confident using HTML and CSS

Desirable Skills

  • Familiarity with agile (scrum) methodologies
  • Familiarity with caching strategies across web applications
  • Experience of with Doctrine or other data mapper based ORMs
  • Understanding of modern web software architectures including microservices and serverless
  • Knowledge including web accessibility best practices
  • Solid grasp of API design paradigms, including the difference between REST and RPC APis
  • Experience with cloud IaaS providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure

Benefits:

  • 25 days holiday + 1 Xmas shopping day + bank holidays
  • Private pension
  • Private health care
  • Profit share scheme
  • Choice of equipment i.e. Linux or Mac

Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with experience of: Software Developer, Software Engineer, Systems Developer, Application Developer, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, PHP Development, WordPress, IT Database Developer and Software Integration, IT Developer, Coder, Modeller, System Coder, Python, Rust, C/C++, Developer, Programmer, Technical Developer, Systems Developer, System Coder, Python, Senior Developer, will all be considered.

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