Senior Wordpress / PHP / Laravel Developer

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Wordpress / PHP / Laravel Developer to join our team. You need to be self motivated, driven, and focussed on delivery of a varied portfolio of digital projects and ongoing retainers, working predominantly our Visitor Attractions clients in the Rubber Cheese portfolio, but also on technical engagements from our Carbon Six Digital Portfolio.

Salary for this role is £40,000 to £50,000 depending on experience (pro-rated for part-time).

No recruiters.

You must have the right to live and work in the UK to apply for this role. We cannot sponsor visa applications.

About us

We're Rubber Cheese and Carbon Six Digital, a recently merged group of agencies who use marginal gains to continuously improve customer experience.

Rubber Cheese builds remarkable online systems, websites and applications that create better experiences for visitor attractions and their guests. Our clients include leading visitor attractions including Eureka! The National Children's Museum, Eureka! Science and Discovery Centre, Holkham Estate as well as National Parks UK. Hosts of the popular podcast attractions podcast Skip the Queue, it is our mission to improve how visitor attractions interact, engage and delight their guests online so they deliver a better, more enjoyable and accessible experience.

Carbon Six Digital design, build, host and support websites and webapps using top-right quadrant CMS tools including Umbraco, HubSpot CMS-Hub and Headless CMSs such as Contentful. Our clients include Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Serco, Egress, Nextbase and Uber.

Whilst deeply technical, Carbon Six Digital are focussed on business outcomes, seeking to build long, trusted relationships, based on mutual respect and a commitment to sustainable, ethical values. We're a safe pair of hands, but we aren't afraid of being agile, embracing disruptive thinking to foster innovation.

Our People

In an agency such as ours, people are our greatest asset. We've worked hard to build a strong team, committed to learning and growing together. We develop new talent through our multi-award winning Apprenticeship programme, and are committed to continuously improving our skills through certification training and self directed learning.

Carbon Six Digital and Rubber Cheese values diversity and are committed to a flexible modern approach to work. We are a Disability Confident Employer and all of our roles can be undertaken part time.

Purpose of the role

You will be a leading member of the development team designing, building and testing code. You will be accountable for the delivery of large and complex software systems and components on time, on budget and to acceptable levels of quality within our agreed processes. In addition you will substantially contribute to our development processes, ensuring that they are fit for purpose and used consistently. Depending on experience, you may also be responsible for senior technical leadership, acting as a technical design authority on projects.

The successful candidate joining the team will be offered training and development opportunities.

You will also contribute to the learning and development of colleagues, especially apprentices. You will also participate in external activities such as attending, organising and speaking at meetups and conferences.

Requirements

• You must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Qualifications

• Required qualifications: Level 3 (A-Level equivalent)
• Desired qualifications: Level 6 (Degree qualification) in a management, marketing or a computing related subject

Experience

• Required experience: 3-5 years experience of Wordpress, PHP and Laravel in an agency environment;
• Desired experience: experience of developing using Umbraco, Hubspot CMS Hub, Contentful or Bloomreach

Benefits

This is a UK-based remote working role. You will be expected to attend on-site team meetings up to six times per year across the UK at our attractions clients, in addition to ad hoc meetings in line with the requirements of your role.

This is a Full Time role (40-hours per week). We will consider applications for Part-Time working, with a minimum of 30-hours per week in most circumstances, although we will be flexible where you can make a reasonable case for reduced hours, such as childcare responsibilities, health constraints or disability.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, and will interview any disabled person that demonstrates that they meet the required qualifications and experience for the role. We will also accept applications in a variety of formats.

This role may be combined with a Level 6 Digital and Technology Solutions or Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship - enabling you to achieve a Degree at work.

Other benefits

• Training and Certification path to become a Certified Umbraco Master Developer;
• 28 days paid leave per year (including bank holidays) plus additional 4 days paid leave per year (prorated for part-time);
• Inspiration Days - Two extra days of annual leave to do something inspiring;
• Flexitime enabling you to vary your working hours and take up to 2 days per month of leave without affecting your annual leave entitlement;
• Up to 10 days paid sick leave per year;
• Company pension;
• Cycle to work scheme;
• Recruitment Referral programme;
• Work from home;
• Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme;
• Free sight test and contribution to glasses when needed for work.