Senior Full Stack PHP Developer

Tech · London Temporarily Remote

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About Unbiased

At Unbiased, our mission is simple – we want to help people take on life’s big decisions with ease. How? By connecting them with the ideal professionals to help them.

We have come to realise there just isn’t enough guidance out there for people. From arranging care for a loved one, or arranging a funeral, we face tough decisions every day. That’s where Unbiased comes in. Our service enables millions of people to make confident choices for all of life’s big decisions by providing them with the best professionals and the quickest, simplest solutions for their needs.

Working at Unbiased means working with intelligent, motivated people who believe in what we do. We have a fun, relaxed environment in which we are simply trusted to get stuff done.

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented Senior Full Stack PHP Developer to join our London based scrum team. The Technology team is primarily offshore but are looking to build out a London scrum team to be closer to our internal customers and for the diversity that it brings.

Over the past year we have been upgrading our Tech stack to move to the latest frameworks and tools (symfony, vue.js, graphql, docker, kubernetes) including migration to Google Cloud Platform. We are on a journey so are looking for a great developer but also someone that can bring their own expertise to push forward our overall technical excellence.

Skills & Experience

· Excellent working knowledge in PHP

· Experience working with modern PHP MVC frameworks (Symfony preferred but not essential)

· Good front end development experience preferred especially with Single Page Apps such as Vue.js

· Experience working in a CI/CD and Kubernetes environment preferred

· Coding best practice for performance, security and other architectural best practices

· Experience working with bug trackers and Git

· Ability to quickly implement solutions from idea to release

Technology Stack

These are the key technologies you will use:

Languages/Frameworks: PHP, Symfony, Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML/CSS/LeSS, Webpack
Databases: PostgreSQL
Environment: Google Cloud Platform, Linux, Git, JIRA

What you get in return!

As well as a competitive salary and annual bonus, we offer you:

23 days’ holiday plus an additional 3 between Christmas & New Year (plus bank holidays)
Learning and development, whether through informal mentorship, events or training courses
Quarterly rewards for meeting our targets
Weekly team download meetings with free drinks
Pension scheme with NEST Pensions
Social activities – pub quiz, bake-off, poker night, festivals, beer tasting and more
Season ticket loan (after completion of probation)
Cycle to work scheme (after completion of probation)
Child care vouchers
Death in service (which we hope that you will never need)
Shower for fitness enthusiasts (or the very clean)

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Contact

Bryn Robinson

Talent Manager

Perks & Benefits

One of the biggest benefits of working at Unbiased is joining a growing business at a super exciting time! You’ll get the opportunity to work with some really smart people and make a positive impact on how people make life’s big decisions.

Along with this, we have a mix of benefits that support our team’s financial, physical and mental wellbeing. Some of these include:

23 days' annual leave

Plus time off between Christmas and New Year and enhanced leave based on length of service

Learning and Development

£1,000 individual learning budget to use towards your development

Remote working

Skip the commute and work from home one day a week

Super fun socials and rewards

Festivals, pub quizzes, chocolate making, poker nights, ping pong (the list goes on!)

Health and wellness

Annual subscription to Calm or a mindfulness app of your choice, fruit in the office every day, mental health awareness and badminton to offset the weekly bake-offs

Extras

Enhanced employer pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and death in service (which we hope you'll never need)

What makes us different?

Want some insight into how we work as a team? Here are our culture behaviours that are at the core of everything we do:

Be relentless about progress

To be the best at what we do, we push things forward with tenacity.

There will always be blockers, we always find ways around them.

Enjoy the journey

We celebrate successes and give kudos to our colleagues for a job well done, no matter how small.

Share and seek input

Our most valuable asset is our people. We embrace challenge and different opinions and are more interested in learning than being right.

Risk failure to achieve success

We iterate often, fail quickly, learn and go again. But this doesn't mean we sacrifice the quality of our work. We aim for excellence in everything we do but we also acknowledge that sometimes we need to say: for now, it is good enough.

Own it and get it done

We don't point blame or find excuses. We are accountable and take responsibility for our mistakes and when we don't deliver. We totally own our failures and learn from them.