Climb Creative, based in Gateshead’s iconic Northern Design Centre have an exciting opportunity to recruit a backend developer to join their passionate team and help deliver a vast array of projects.
As well as helping to maintain and update an exciting catalogue of bespoke projects, you will get to develop custom back-end solutions for exciting new websites while working with a very passionate team.
You’ll get to develop with our own flexible custom CMS as well as working with the latest PHP frameworks.
Key responsibilities.
• Write clean maintainable code
• Design and create database schemas suitable for the project
• When assigned to project, report day-to-day to the project manager, providing progress updates against tasks
• Thoroughly test your code in development, testing and production environments
• Troubleshoot code issues
Required experience.
• Vast experience of modern backend web development
• Good Object Oriented and MVC practices
• Experience in building and using REST APIs
• Excellent knowledge of MySQL/MariaDB and other RDBMS systems
• Experience using git or other version control systems
• Excellent ability to self-manage and keep to tight deadlines
• Good problem-solving skills
Ideal skills.
• Experience using modern PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony)
• Experience in building complex systems
• Working knowledge of Linux server administration (CentOS & Ubuntu)
• Knowledge of administering AWS
• Experience working with Docker and containerisation technologies
• Knowledge of writing bash scripts
• Knowledge of CI/CD systems
The perks.
• A voice (you will always, always, have a say)
• Above ‘standard’ pension scheme (every little helps)
• Flexible working hours (hit snooze now and again)
• Training budgets (every days a learning day)
• Relaxed working environment (all we ask is you deliver)
• Be part of a passionate team (all round good people)
• Free on-site parking (and good transport links)