Senior Developer

Contract:            Permanent & Full Time

Hours of work:   Monday to Friday 37.5hrs per week

Location:            Hybrid working – Travel to Huddersfield (minimum one day per week)

Salary:                £60k per annum, including an attractive benefits package.

We are looking for exceptional talent to build a best in class team in the holiday letting sector. As a technology platform we innovate & simplify - removing complexity for our owners and providing great value holidays to our guests. Our people are committed to having a positive impact on our planet, community and each other whilst creating amazing holiday moments for everyone

Working in partnership with BeyondHR, UKCaravans4hire are seeking to appoint a Senior Developer to join the growing team.

The Role

Reporting directly to the Lead Web Developer, and helping to build a divisional technology team, the Senior Developer will be responsible for developing and helping drive the technology development within the division.

In particular, the Senior Developer will be responsible for:

• Create well crafted, scalable and resilient solutions used both by colleagues and the public
• Own the delivery of software into the business
• Participate in sprint planning to deliver regular iterations, and retrospectives to improve our processes
• Promote software development best practices
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to clarify ambiguous requirements and taking corrective action for issues in production
• Perform exploratory work to investigate new technologies that we can leverage to solve business problems, as well as sizing changes to our existing platform
• Reviewing colleagues’ code submissions, coaching enhancements, encouraging standards and identifying bugs
• Assist in recruitment, induction and training as the department & function grows
• Facilitate daily stand ups to ensure team and business alignment.

The successful candidate will meet the following Essential Criteria:

• Proven experience of software engineering in a commercial setting
• Experience of PHP MVC frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony or CodeIgniter or similar
• Experience of using Test Driven Development in commercial projects;
• Demonstrable record of delivering high-quality object-oriented code and using SOLID principles;
• A strong grasp of MySQL with the ability to identify problematic or costly queries;
• Experience of React JS as well as other foundational front-end technologies e.g Vanilla Javascript/jQuery, HTML, CSS or similar
• Experience of Agile development methodologies e.g. Scrum or similar
• Experience with REST APIs including less common HTTP Verbs

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience with many aspects of Amazon Web Services, ideally ECS
• Exposure to Continuous Delivery tools such as Bamboo or Jenkins
• Front-end styling frameworks such as SASS & Bootstrap or similar
• UNIX command line
• An understanding of microservice architectures
• Docker containers

A Job Description is available to download.

To apply for this position, please upload a covering letter and an up-to-date CV, explaining how you feel your knowledge, skills and experience meet the above requirements of the role. Candidates will be shortlisted for interview only based on the information provided.  

UKCaravans4hire reserves the right to enhance the criteria in the event of an unprecedented response.