Senior Full Stack Developer

Your new company A fast-growing technology company revolutionising how businesses manage their schedules, memberships, and client interactions. With a flagship platform serving users internationally, this dynamic organisation is entering an exciting new phase of growth and expanding their development capabilities. They pride themselves on their collaborative, innovative, and friendly culture, building high-quality software that makes a real impact. Your new role This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a pivotal, newly created leadership position as the company transitions to two agile development teams.

As a Lead Developer within the new Projects team, you'll be at the heart of the product's evolution, taking the lead on implementing major, groundbreaking features for their core platform. Working in close partnership with the Head of Product, you'll be a hands-on technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and deploying exciting new features. You'll play a crucial role in mentoring the wider development team, championing best practices, and shaping a world-class engineering culture.

Key responsibilities include:

Experience with end-to-end design, development, and deployment of new features and services Working on new builds, helping to define technical roadmaps Collaborating closely with product leadership to translate requirements into robust, scalable solutions Writing clean, efficient, maintainable code across the full stack (Laravel APIs and React front-end Championing engineering best practices, including modern CI/CD pipelines and comprehensive testing strategies What you'll need to succeed Essential :
Proven commercial experience as a full-stack developer in a professional environment Strong proficiency in PHP with extensive Laravel framework experience for building RESTful APIs Excellent knowledge of modern JavaScript with deep React experience Solid understanding of MySQL, including schema design and query optimisation Hands-on experience with AWS, particularly serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, API Gateway via Bref/Serverless Framework) Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders Proactive, product-focused mindset with a desire to build high-quality software Desirable :

Experience with React Native for cross-platform mobile development Experience in a fast-growing startup or scale-up environment Knowledge of modern Dev Ops practices and infrastructure-as-code (AWS focus) Excellent knowledge of security best practices What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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