Gear4music is a leading UK & European musical retailer. Having launched in 2003 with a mission to offer a range of easy and affordable musical gear to musicians. We offer over 62,000 products in 190 countries, 15 languages and 9 currencies. In 2022, AV.com launched under the Gear4music umbrella, focussing on retailing Home Cinema, HiFi and accessories.
Gear4music is powered by a technical team of over 30 people who build and maintain a platform that makes achieving our mission possible. We recently turned over £147m as a group and have experienced consistent revenue growth since 2015 when listed on the AIM.
Who Are You?
You’re a motivated, flexible and talented engineer who is enthusiastic about learning new things and challenging themselves. You’re not a lone ranger but believe in collaborative, friendly working environments that deliver real projects. You’re someone who takes pride in the things you do, from beginning to end. You love the attention to detail and might admit it’s a blessing and a curse. You’ll also need some personality, a strong GIF-game, and we’d love to know what you’re into… to an extent.
Your Mission
You will be someone who pushes commercial value and helps improve team values. You relish the opportunity to work with like minded people, helping influence and reinforce value through data-driven decision making. You help shape and define how we can be more effective with both commercial and team values at the core of each decision.
You will:
Have the soft-skills necessary to accept and provide feedback graciously.
Drive and deliver change utilising your technical knowledge.
Promote a positive, open, communicative attitude and culture within your team.
You will champion new technologies when it’s right for the business.
Some of the technical things we’re looking for:
Modern PHP development skills.
HTML5, SCSS, JavaScript (including frameworks like ReactJS and ExtJS).
MySQL knowledge, working with large databases.
Cloud computing and containerised applications.
Building scalable distributed systems.
A background in e-commerce.
An interest in software performance.
Any of: Composer, Docker, Github, CI, PHPUnit, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, ElasticSearch, xhprof.