Full-stack developer

AKA is a global entertainment agency working primarily with theatre, alongside museums, attractions, visitor destinations and live entertainment more broadly. You would join the Digital department, a team of over 60 people across Digital Media, Digital Product Development, and Data & Insights. You will sit in the development team, working across the full stack with a back-end bias.

• Build, deploy and maintain websites and web applications, front-end and back-end.
• Maintain and improve our cloud Linux infrastructure.
• Support front-end developers with local environments and tooling.
• Keep our development and deployment processes healthy, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with designers to pressure-test whether designs are feasible, and propose alternatives where they are not.
• Produce development estimates for back-end work.
• Build HTML marketing emails on occasion.
• Meet internal stakeholders to scope requirements and report progress.
• Train clients on the sites you have built, on occasion.

• Solid object-oriented PHP (8.x).
• Strong Word Press experience, including custom theme and plugin development.
• Experience with at least one MVC framework (Laravel, Symfony).
• Consuming and building REST APIs.
• Ability to maintain Linux web servers (nginx or Apache, php-fpm, MySQL).
• Confident with HTML, modern CSS and JavaScript (ES6+).
• Git, including branching and code review workflow.
• Comfortable working from Figma files and extracting assets.
• We are looking for someone who digs into problems rather than waiting to be handed a solution communicates clearly with non-technical colleagues works well to campaign deadlines wants to be a senior developer in a few years.

• Type Script and React or Next.js.
• A growing share of our product work is built this way and there is scope to move further in that direction.
• Docker or another containerised local development setup.
• Modern build tooling (Vite, webpack).
• A CSS framework such as Tailwind, or a preprocessor such as Sass.
• CI/CD with Git Hub Actions or similar.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, Cloudflare).
• Automated testing (PHPUnit, Playwright).
• Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA).
• Much of our client base has a legal and moral obligation here, so it matters to us.

• 25 days holiday ‘Telus Health’ EAP scheme for you and your family.
• Giving you access to free independent advice on Life, Health, Family, Money and Work matters
• Holiday Buy Back
• Friends & Family
• Theatre Ticket
• New Business Incentives
• Recruitment Incentives
• Pension Scheme*
• Interest Free Travel Loan*
• Ride to Work Scheme*
• Childcare Vouchers*
• Death in Service
• Flexible/Hybrid Working
• Critical Illness
• Enhanced Parental Leave