Senior Web Developer (PHP, HTML5, CSS/SASS)

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We are continually investing in our software teams - this gives us a commercial edge and helps us deliver a great experience for our customers.

We hire creative web developers and software engineers who bring fresh, innovative ideas and contribute to both the team and the experience of working at Gear4music.

Who we are

Our dedicated Web & PHP development team has been established in Manchester for almost 15 years.

We are the largest UK-based online retailer of musical instruments and equipment.

Our continued success and growth allowed us to list on the London Stock Exchange in June 2015.

We are growing, come and grow with us and be part of the story.

Culture

We have an open, collaborative and friendly workspace.

Input, ideas and innovations are welcomed and encouraged from everyone.

We encourage a supportive learning environment where our developers and engineers are challenged to use their skills and creativity.

We’ll make sure you get all the mentoring, support, training (and coffee) you need to get up to speed quickly.

Technology

We push PHP to its limits. We’re keen on OO best practice. If you are an inquisitive developer you will find the work varied, interesting and challenging. We promote Scrum & Agile practices.

You will be given the chance to work with and learn:

- Highly scalable and complex distributed systems

- MySQL, Percona - including HA configuration & replication

- Interface development with HTML5, SASS/CSS, JavaScript (including frameworks - AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQuery, ExtJS)

- Cloud based UNIX/Linux environments: Google Cloud Platform, AWS

- NoSQL & search: Elasticsearch, Solr, Cloud Datastore

- Containerisation & Virtualisation: Docker, Kubernetes, App Engine

- Tooling: Composer, Vagrant, Capistrano, Puppet, GitHub, Continuous Integration, Jenkins,

- Codeception, PHPUnit, Selenium

- Performance optimisation: xhprof, Xdebug

- More and more every day… we are always keen to adopt new technologies in a sustainable way.

You may not have experience of all of the above, we will give you the support and training to get you there.

Rewards

We value your well being and want to ensure you have a lifestyle that helps you get the best of your work and your free time, with that in mind we offer a flexible working hours policy. We are constantly reviewing our packages and perks, below is a selection:

- Great salary

- Share options

- Employer pension scheme

- Staff discount on all musical equipment

- Monthly meals out on the company

- Monthly night out on the company

- Childcare vouchers

- Free fruit bowl each week

- Eyecare vouchers

- Cycle to work scheme

- Employee referral scheme worth £1000 per hire

- Flexible working