PHP Laravel Developer

FEELING FRUSTRATED IN YOUR CURRENT ROLE?

Struggling to see how you can progress? Tired of all roads leading to you for project work? If this sounds like you and you have been thinking of taking the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you. After some significant project wins, we are looking to grow our development team!

ABOUT SURGE

We're a full-service online services agency with internal Design, Media, Content, Marketing, Social and SEO teams and we offer a lot more than just your average brochure and e-commerce sites. We currently have iOS, Android, Software and multi-million eCommerce projects in active development so the opportunities are broad, and going.

THE ROLE

We're looking for someone with a number of years of agency experience working on PHP, Laravel and Web projects who's looking to take a step towards a more senior position.

Unfortunately we're not looking for fully remote or hybrid workers, this role is based in a collaborative environment at our offices in Middlesbrough, we do however offer flexible working to suit the unexpected and all staff have a fixed work from home day too.

No agencies please, we struggle to ensure our message and requirements are fully passed on to the prospective candidates and would prefer to work directly with them, please feel free to share to your network, and thanks for your interest.

The expectations for the role are not set in stone however typical projects that we would expect the applicant to be able to contribute to and quickly take on as their own would include;

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

Statamic CMS based Brochure websites
◦ PHP / Laravel
◦ Building bespoke HTML / CSS / JS / PHP based page templates from in house designs
◦ Building custom addons / API interfaces, eg Hubspot, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, etc
Aero Commerce based Ecommerce sites
◦ PHP / Laravel
◦ Building bespoke HTML / CSS / JS / PHP page templates from in house designs
◦ MySQL - basic Devops, query optimisation, data transfer
◦ Elastic Search
◦ Payment gateway integrations
Web based software development with Laravel Backpack
◦ PHP / Laravel with JS and CSS
◦ MySQL - basic Devops, query optimisation, data transfer
◦ More advanced database / Laravel model schemas, entity relationships and software architecture
◦ Good understanding of user experience
Broad understanding of current digital / web standards
◦ SEO
◦ Google search console
◦ Google analytics
◦ Meta pixel
◦ Web site accessibility
◦ Page speed requirements and techniques
◦ Google shopping
◦ Web API's / JSON / authentication
◦ Project management
◦ Good communication skills and the ability to understand customer requirements and convey complex solutions in a broad range of simple terms

POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES

We also have a number of other projects that we actively support and retain where there could be opportunities for the right candidate, or use existing skillsets may be of added value to us, these include;

• React JS / React Native Mobile Apps

• Xamarin / .Net MAUI based Apps

• .Net / .Net Framework MVC Web Applications

• Wordpress site development

• Windows Server Management

• Linux Server Management

• Azure Infrastructure Management

INTERVIEW PROCESS:

Stage 1:

The 1st interview is all about your technical ability, previous experience and your ability to carry out the role.

Stage 2:

Based on a successful first interview, you will be set a task. Don’t worry, this isn’t anything client facing, it’s designed to test your problem solving skills.

The second interview is around you as a person and how you would complement the existing team.We will also review the task you completed.

Stage 3:

We will let you know our decision either way and provide some feedback.