Senior PHP Web Developer
Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Job: TECHNOLOGY
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Role: Senior Software Developer
Division: Pearson Assessment Services
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:
1. Successful completion of software and data services projects, specifically with the use of the Laravel development framework on both front and backend services
2. Design and implementation of DB structures in MySQL
3. Creating technical specifications based on requirements
4. Estimation and development following an Agile approach
5. Participation in regular peer review processes
6. Delivery of complex digital projects to tight deadlines
7. Working with a global team of developers
8. Assisting with architectural discussions and plans
9. Designing software systems for cloud-based architecture
10. Working with product owner and business analyst to refine and estimate requirements
11. Working with the project managers, product owners and operation team to ensure applications are successfully delivered to production
12. Providing production support to applications
13. Applying best practices for chosen development platform
14. Very strong experience with PHP and frameworks (Laravel), MySQL
15. Awareness of application architecture in cloud-based environments (AWS)
16. Understanding of key architectural components, such as caches and queues
17. Experience using Docker and containers
18. Proven track record of working in a business systems development project environment from beginning to end
19. Good communication skills both written and verbal
20. Travel may be required in support of projects
21. Strong knowledge of UI design
22. Experience in the education sector and assessment beneficial
23. Experience of designing large data, high traffic, scalable solutions
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.
Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We want a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law.
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