Senior PHP Web Developer

Pearson - UK; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

Role: Senior Software Developer

Division: Pearson Assessment Services

Location: Rotherham, Oxford, London or Manchester

Salary: £45 – 55k, plus on target bonus of 8%

About Pearson: Our purpose at Pearson is to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. At the heart of this is a commitment to sustainable practices and meaningful, measurable outcomes. We are the world’s leading learning company, dedicated to creating digital-first, accessible and sustainable learning resources.

About Pearson Assessment Services: The Pearson Assessment Services (PAS) team provides assessment services to the UK and international assessment markets, supporting government education departments with project management, operational delivery and technical solutions.

About you

You’ll have significant prior relevant experience working on full stack development, developing solutions that provide real benefit to users, and ideally working in an Agile project delivery environment using Scrum or Kanban.

Key Skills & Experience

• Successful completion of software and data services projects, specifically with the use of the Laravel development framework on both front and backend services
• Design and implementation of DB structures in MySQL
• Creating technical specifications based on requirements given
• Estimation and development following an Agile approach
• Participation in regular peer review processes
• Delivery of complex digital projects to tight deadlines
• Working with a global team of developers
• Assisting with architectural discussions and plans
• Designing software systems for cloud-based architecture
• Working with product owner and business analyst to refine and estimate requirements
• Working with the project managers, product owners and operation team to ensure applications are successfully delivered to production
• Providing production support to applications
• Applying best practices for chosen development platform

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Exposure to Agile development methodology.
• Very strong experience with PHP and frameworks (Laravel), MySQL
• Awareness of application architecture in cloud-based environments (AWS)
• Understanding of key architectural components, such as caches and queues
• Experience using Docker and containers
• Proven track record of working in a business systems development project environment from beginning to end
• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Travel may be required in support of projects
• Strong knowledge of UI design
• Experience in the education sector and assessment beneficial
• Experience of designing large data, high traffic, scalable solutions
• Experience of JavaScript and associated frameworks (Vue.js especially) highly beneficial

Job Location and Hours

The role is aligned to our Rotherham, London, Oxfordshire or Manchester offices in the UK, working a 37.5 hour week. All our roles are hybrid working; our current policy requires our team to visit their base office no more than once a week, with the possibility of occasional business travel to other Pearson sites.