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Gear4music

Software Engineer

Private salary

Manchester

Hybrid

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Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
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.

Role tech stack

javascript
JavaScript
react
React
php
PHP

Culture overview

We really care about people. We want you to grow with us in an open and supportive environment. We want to hear your ideas and for you to be yourself in an atmosphere that embraces people’s individual personalities. We pride ourselves on our culture, and try to offer something more meaningful than token beanbags and a PS5 you don’t have time to play. We've got important things covered, like having properly trained mental health first aiders, as well as silly things like our #geese Slack channel. There's plenty to get involved in, from movie nights to a Dungeons & Dragons club. We’re techy to the core, with technical leaders through to board level. We pride ourselves on our flat structure where directors sit in with the teams and are there when you need them. We encourage open and honest feedback, even if you’re critiquing your boss. - We won't sell you a job based on gimmicks. We know you don’t want to hear how 'unique' this opportunity is. - We’re not an agency. You can do your best work here, in a team who recognise that quality matters. - We don't ask you to work longer hours than you're paid for. We encourage a healthy work-life balance. - We won't make you get involved in things you're not into. If this month's board game social doesn't strike the right chord, no worries.

Employee benefits

Cycle To Work
Flexible Working
Laptop
Pension

Location

Leadership

Tom Sowerby
Engineering Director

Engineering principles

Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous integration
Feature switching
Infrastructure as code
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Monitoring and logging
Refactoring
Test Driven Development
Unit testing

Company tech stack

composer
Composer
react
React
php
PHP
javascript
JavaScript
html5
HTML5
aws
AWS
google-cloud-platform
Google Cloud Platform
nosql
noSQL
bootstrap
Bootstrap
jquery
jQuery
mysql
MySQL
nginx
Nginx
windows
Windows
linux
Linux
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Gear4music
Software Engineer
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