Experienced PHP Developer

If you're serious about PHP, there's a job with your name on itat D3R.

At D3R, we create wonderful bespoke websites and business systems for new and existing clients in ecommerce, hospitality andbeyond.

D3R was founded by developers and still over three quarters ofour team are technical. We take a long term view. That applies tohow we choose our clients, how we write our code, and how we treatour employees.

We are looking for developers who are experienced with and enthusiastic about PHP to join our Chichester team.

There are many skills and technologies that would be useful, butto be a great fit for this role, you should have experience spending the majority of your time knee deep in object-oriented,modern PHP.

As a more experienced developer, you'll also need excellent communication skills and solid commercial understanding. We don'thave a traditional project management layer so these skills arevital, both with clients and the rest of the team.

On the technical side, you should have the following skills:

• You feel at home in modern PHP 8 using object-oriented principles to solve complex problems.
• You think and care about code reuse and abstraction, always looking for ways to increase the leverage of the code youwrite.
• You have experience with at least one PHP framework or have worked with a large, complex application.
• You care about code quality and have put this into practice bytesting with PHPUnit or static analysers. Maybe you've even automated this.
• You're not scared of being a bit of a detective. This couldmean jumping into code and following a bug around, working something out with your colleagues when two heads are better thanone, or teasing requirements out of a client.
• You have a track record of getting things done and focussing ondelivery. You are good at predicting how long a piece of work islikely to take and recognising potential risks ahead of time.

There are lots of other skills we like our devs to have and forthis role we would expect candidates to be able to demonstrate experience in at least a couple of the following areas:

• AI and agentic coding skills. Ideally you've done enough ofthis to learn which things AI does well, where it struggles, andhow to make good decisions about when you take over to ensure thatyou are gaining a genuine productivity boost.
• Ecommerce and integrations with payment gateways. If you'vebeen involved with PCI compliance that would be even better.
• Web performance. How to measure it, how to improve it, and whatvalue that might bring a client.
• A deep understanding of SQL (we use Maria
  
  DB). How to write complex queries, measure and optimise performance, and designscalable databases.
• Sysadmin and Dev Ops. We use AWS and Cloud Flare along with Debian, Puppet, and Terraform. We are always on the lookout for careful, experienced heads to help us manage and improveourinfrastructure.

Nothing we do is off-the-shelf. Being a developer at D3R meansyou get to make a real difference to our clients' businesses. Youwon't get bored and you won't stop learning.

At D3R everyone has a stake in our success. As an employee owned company, you don't just work here. You help shape our future.

Competitive salary, life insurance, dental cover, team lunches,extra earned holiday and even a twice yearly tax-free bonus.

Keep rising to the challenge and we'll keep moving you up. It'sas simple as that.

Hybrid working option and flexible start & finish times - the best of both worlds.

With a dental plan, life insurance, 24/7 access to a GP, and more.

As an employee owned business, we are able to offer company wide tax free bonuses.