Senior Full Stack Engineer Cardiff, Wales
Job description
iCrossing combines the capability of a digital transformation consultancy with the activation expertise of an agency. We help businesses unlock the power of digital, through creativity, content, data, media and technology to deliver real step change.
We recognise that our People are central to delivering on our mission and are passionate about nurturing and developing talent at all levels across the organisation. Discover how iCrossing could be the step change in your career!
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
iCrossing is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer, t o join our brilliant Product Engineering team. Reporting into the Engineering Director, the Senior Full Stack Engineer will use engineering expertise to support the team in the optimisation, evolution and continual extension of our long-term client’s complex and high traffic web application in the active lifestyle / leisure industry.
You will have solid experience with PHP (current technology stack), Laravel and AWS, and someone who has worked on high volume databases.
ABOUT THE ROLE
- Migrating functionality into more modern technology stacks over time and with the help of our Engineering Director and other engineers in the team.
- Delivering world class product architecture and features for household names through to new-to-market start-ups.
- Using problem-solving skills, developing new concepts to solve business and technical problems.
- Taking ownership of a product, feature or task and seeing it through from conception to production.
- Architecting solutions to complex problems.
- Thoroughly testing code (and using TDD).
- Using excellent written and oral communication, confidently explaining technical concepts to fellow developers, colleagues and clients.
- Being an ambassador of iCrossing UK and its values.
ABOUT YOU
- Looking to develop craft as a Full Stack Engineer.
- Expert commercial experience in building and evolving complex web applications, conceiving suites of APIs and performant data storage solutions (relational and nonrelational)
- Solid knowledge of PHP in a commercial environment, ideally with experience in the Laravel framework (although similar such as Symfony is good too!)
- Demonstrable experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Demonstrable experience in designing scalable UI’s and large applications.
- Experience of working with AWS or Azure infrastructure and tools.
- Experience of handling queues of jobs and processes that manage the synchronisation of data into and out of the environments we manage.
- Proficient skills with the command line and command line tools such as git.
- Experience with CI/CD and modern best practises of deploying software.
We’re currently working with:
- Node.js / React / Redux / Typescript / PHP
- Gatsby / Storybook / Storyblok
- AWS / Docker / Kubernetes
- Bitbucket / Pipelines / CI / CD
- TDD / BDD / Cypress / Protractor
- VSCode
- Figma / Tailwind
WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM US
We empower our people to create positive change for clients and themselves. We offer iCrossers a long list of benefits, many of which you’ll see everywhere, but here are some of the highlights:
- ‘Flex 10’: reduced core working hours, creating 10 flexible hours to suit you
- Remote working, hybrid and office working options: we currently operate on min. 2 days a week office working, other options can be discussed dependent on role
- Pension matching up to 6%
- Healthcare plan and Digicare app with access to professional mental health support, nutritional advice, health screenings and a digital GP
- Monthly contribution to a wellbeing activity of your choice.
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Bonusly - peer to peer employee recognition programme
- Phone and tech purchasing scheme
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay
- Personal development and skills training provided by iCrossing, our parent organisation Hearst and external facilitators
- Professional financial and pension advice
- Early Finish Fridays on the last Friday of every month
- Study leave: up to 5 days per year
- Charity days: 5 days per year to undertake work on behalf of a charity
- Together Time: 3x per year, 2 hours paid time off to spend time with people you care about most
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work
- Regular socials and more!
We believe that diversity strengthens and enriches who we are, and it is important to us that our workplace is somewhere our people feel they belong and reflects every aspect of our diverse nation. Our ambition is for iCrossing to be the step change in our people’s career and that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Currently those from ethnic minority backgrounds are under-represented at iCrossing and we are keen to broaden our socio-economic diversity. We therefore encourage and welcome applications from Black, Asian, ethnic minority and lower socio-economic backgrounds.
We would be grateful if all applicants could fill in this short survey about diversity & belonging, which gives us insights into the diversity of our talent pools, and informs positive changes to our policies and processes. It is entirely voluntary, and no information is shared with hiring managers: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Y3WX666
All disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the job as set out in the job description and person specification will be guaranteed an interview if requesting to be considered under this scheme. If there’s anything we can do to make our interview process or working environment more inclusive and to meet your particular needs, please let us know. Our offices in Brighton and London are accessible to wheelchairs.
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