Developer (PHP) at Kidadl

You will be delivering the technology vision for the company and to excel in this role you will be someone who enjoys working able in a dynamic fast-paced environment and serving a global family audience with best in class solutions to entertain and educate their kids. You'll also have the ability to understand problems from a logical perspective and manage the creation of effective technology solutions in a timely manner.

Key responsibilities:

• Ability to quickly assimilate and grasp the current tech stack and technical debt and backlog
• Actively participate in the whole process of development, from initial design to deployment and support
• Working knowledge of backend API development to serve both the front end applications as well as third party APIs
• Write clean, high quality, well designed backend code
• Confident in resolving bugs in a rapid and timely manner
• Effective estimation of work and timely delivery to the highest quality standards
• Assist in analysing the technologies required for more complex projects

Requirements

• 3+ years experience creating Laravel apps
• Extensive experience with PHP scripting
• Expertise in HTML mark-up
• Proficiency in JavaScript
• Unit testing experience
• A complete portfolio that shows applications you have worked on
• Exceptional communication skills
• Creative problem-solving abilities
• Knowledge and experience with MVC architecture
• SQL knowledge and understanding of database design
• Knowledge of unit testing software
• Experience with query languages for NoSQL or SQL databases

Benefits

• Impact - an awesome role in a global business that is rapidly scaling with participation in company share scheme
• Exposure - we work with exciting people and partners across the globe and we’re a merit-based organisation
• Remote-working - this is a remote working opportunity for a company that is virtual-first
• Feel good factor - you’ll be working with a company at the heart of education and technology, focused on improving family life for the better