Senior Frontend & PHP Developer
 
Location:          Remote (UK based essential)
 
Salary:              Circa £40-£50k per annum
 
Our client
 
Our client, since 2008, have been transforming the lives of thousands of smokers and vapers with their amazing combination of e-liquids, devices and of course their expert team which is now 360 people strong and growing! They are seeking to engage a Senior Frontend & PHP Developer to join their ranks.

Summary of position

• Primarily responsible for the development, maintenance and support of the TW Group e-commerce estate, throughout multiple websites, within a mixed real estate of platforms including Magento 2, Laravel, Wordpress and others.
• Working on projects and change requests, from creation to resolution.
• Identifying, troubleshooting and resolving ad hoc system/website matters.
• Development, creation and implementation of custom websites.
• Working on multiple APIs and various systems integrations.
• Testing the product in controlled, real situations before going live

• Contribute to the development and delivery of technical solutions on the e-commerce estate (both Magento and other platforms).
• Production of web solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Re-engineer and refactor existing code / extensions as required and write tests.
• Internal development of Magento 2 modules in separate code repositories and release cycles.
• Communicate status and blockers to the project management teams, and to line management.
• Writing and implementing efficient code.
• Developing quality assurance procedures.
• Internal support, bug fixing and investigations.

• Well-grounded in software architecture and development best practices
• Strong knowledge of OOP PHP
• Laravel or any other modern PHP framework experience
• Experience with MySQL and database design
• Familiarity with GIT and version control workflows
• Solid understanding of source code management and best practices
• Strong frontend development experience with Vue.js 2/3
• Experience with Vite for modern frontend tooling
• Styling proficiency with TailwindCSS and SASS
• Understanding of RESTful API development and integration

• Commercial experience in e-commerce websites
• Experience with Magento 2
• Exposure to other modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular)
• Progressive Web App (PWA) development experience
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with Cloud-based technologies (Containers, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience writing unit and integration tests for both frontend and backend