Senior developer
We are looking for a Senior Developer to lead the technical efforts of a talented team, delivering work on behalf of key clients on multi-year projects.
Skylab has a talented team, a great culture, great clients, creates world class work and has digital innovation at its core. We care greatly about both the quality and the craft of our work.
What you’ll be doing
As a senior developer, you will work as a role model within our studio environment.
You will estimate and break down tasks and lead the process of carrying them out with your team.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to the planning and pre-production phases of projects, contributing to architectural design and project estimation activities.
As a senior developer you will be responsible for driving the day-to-day technical decision making process, evolving systems as requirements change over time.
As a driver of best practice you will improve and drive our software engineering practices such as refactoring, code reviews and automated testing.
You will also work to improve our process to ensure that we work in the best possible way.
You will get from us:
- A competitive salary based on experience.
- Flexible working hours to avoid traffic or help with family duties.
- 30 days paid holiday (22 + 8 UK national holidays).
- Pension contribution.
- A top of the range MacBook Pro with a high quality second monitor.
- Personal development time to improve your individual skills in any area you choose.
- Time dedicated to exploring new technology and ways of working.
- Regular socials and bi-annual company away days.
- Fast dedicated and uncontended fibre connection.
- Free parking.
- Free secure storage for bicycles & motorbikes.
- Shower for cyclists, runners and gym users.
- Free tea, coffee and other treats.
- Free eye test
What we’re looking for
Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge. We will happily talk to you about your natural strengths and also the areas that you are keen to improve. Skylab is a wonderful journey and we are here to help you every step of the way.
You definitely
- Will engage in architectural discussions, mentoring of mid and junior developers and driving engineering practices towards excellence.
- Focus on modern engineering principles, code craftsmanship and automation.
- Are a smart, motivated, focused person who enjoys producing amazing solutions.
- Have a keen understanding of web technologies with practical experience of building applications using both PHP and JavaScript.
- Are familiar with DevOps and concepts such as immutable infrastructure and Pets vs. Cattle.
- Have been exposed to Agile / Lean environments.
- Act as an example to others in the team so that they are confident we can do things right rather than feeling pressured to cut corners.
- Will mentor, educate and inspire team members and staff throughout Skylab.
- Have at least five years' commercial experience.
It’d be nice if you
- Have worked with Wordpress, developing your own themes and plugins.
- Have created sites using Symfony 2/3, or similar modern frameworks.
- Have worked with tools like Docker, Jenkins, Puppet or similar.
- Are experienced with Git, Doctrine, SASS, jQuery.
- Have used front end JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React.
- Are experienced with the modern JavaScript ecosystem, tools and best practices.
- Have used Amazon Web Services to deploy a high traffic web platform.
Please tell us why you want to work at Skylab and what you can add to our offering of digital strategy and production.
Please send your covering letter and CV to [email protected].
Good luck… and no agencies please.