JUNIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - PHP

BARNSLEY - HYBRID (ONE DAY A WEEK IN OFFICE)

UP TO 42,000 + BENEFITS

THE OPPORTUNITY:

You’ll be joining as an experienced developer, working on live systems, handling sensitive data, maintaining reliable workflows, and making sure the software does what users need it to do without getting in the way.

This isn’t a role where you just pick up tickets and move on. You’ll be expected to think about how the system hangs together, improve existing code, and help keep things stable as changes are made.

THE ROLE:

• Building and maintaining PHP applications used in production.
• Adding and improving JavaScript functionality to support straightforward user journeys.
• Designing and maintaining MariaDB databases, with attention to performance and data accuracy.
• Making sure applications are secure, reliable and auditable.
• Investigating and fixing issues in live environments with minimal disruption.
• Writing clear, readable code that others can easily work with.
• Taking part in code reviews and technical discussions.
• Offering support and guidance to other developers when needed.

THE PERSON:

• Must have solid experience as a PHP Developer.
• Strong JavaScript skills, including working with APIs.
• Some experience working with cloud-hosted environments (e.g. AWS), or the ability to pick this up quickly.
• Experience working on live systems with real users and real data.
• A sensible approach to security and data protection.
• Able to work independently and make sound technical decisions.
• Comfortable working with older or inherited codebases.
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments.

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Job Title: Proclaim Developer Location: Sharston, M22 4SN Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 per annum, dependent on experience Job type: Full time, Permanent About Us: Established in 2000, Express Solicitors is an award-winning law firm that deals with personal injury and clinical negligence claims. Based in Manchester, we serve clients nationwide and are currently ranked 64 out of more than 10,000 law firms. We have a 5-star rating on Trustpilot from over 8,000 reviews, which coming from our clients means a lot to us. We are proud of the work we do helping injured people, and this is the core of our business. The Role: Express Solicitors is currently looking to appoint a Proclaim Developer, who will be responsible for the design, development, and day to day administration of the Proclaim case management system. The role will be working with our Development Manager, and seven other developers and where necessary third parties, in particular Access Legal Systems to ensure that all identified improvements to the system can be integrated efficiently and with minimal impact to end users. In addition to development, the role will encompass the day-to-day administration of the Proclaim system including template maintenance, user configuration, task server administration and report design and execution. The role will require co-operation with the general IT department and Operations department. Person Specification: Essential: - General understanding of common database programming and query languages. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. - Effective communication skills allowing reporting on a non-technical level of work in progress to senior stakeholders. - Ability to clearly document and evidence planned changes using project and workflow documentation and retain current configurations for recovery purposes. - Excellent organisation and time management skills. - Must understand the concept of internal customers and ensure that internal stakeholders remain confident in the ability of Proclaim to suit the business. - Strong negotiation skills and the capability to deal firmly with external companies to manage projects and maintenance effectively. Desired: - Up to and including Proclaim Technical Level 4 training attended or ability to demonstrate equivalent practical experience including: - A minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar Proclaim development role. - Creating new case types, database fields and correspondents. - Screen design and intelligence. - Using maths fields and tests to perform specific functions. - Workflow maintenance including creation of linked actions, forms, secure documents, and master documents. - Advanced Report training or equivalent practical experience of designing, amending and scheduling reports. - Understanding of design and execution of SQL queries. - Experience of designing and using auto routines. - Import/Export routines. - Task server configuration, scheduling, and troubleshooting. - Familiarity with Proclaim v3.5 and its additional features. - Experience of design and execution of Macros. - Knowledge of Proclaim Accounts system and Sage accounting software. - Experience of Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Medical Agency, and Costs Case types. - Knowledge of SQL or similar database languages and ASP, PHP or similar for Web interfacing. - HTML knowledge. - Understanding of web services and multi-platform system interactions. - Knowledge of Proclaim MI Warehouse - Understanding of Proclaim A2A integration and maintenance. - Experience of creating and maintaining Proclaim Secure Docs. - A practical knowledge of Windows based networks including Active Directory and Exchange. Salary & Hours: Salary of £40,000 - £50,000, dependent on experience Our standard working hours are 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday-Thursday and 8:30am to 5pm Friday. It may on occasion be necessary to perform maintenance outside of core hours and therefore a flexible approach is required. Benefits: - Hybrid Working - 3/2 hybrid working pattern after probation. - 23 Days Holiday - Rising to 26 days, plus bank/public holidays. - Extra Holidays - 3 holiday buy backs and an extra day for your birthday after service length requirement. - Looking After Your Health - Private medical insurance available after 2 years' service, annual flu jab and Employee Assistance Programme. - Looking After Your Well-being - 24/7 onsite Gym, Netball/Football team, 10km Manchester team and more. - Work Life / Balance - Active social committee with generous departmental and firm-wide social budget. Recruitment Process: Interviews will be conducted by MS Teams and will include scenario-based questioning. Our employees are our most important asset, we rate skill and ability above all else and our recruitment policy encourages applications from all. Please click APPLY to be redirected to our website to complete your application. Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Proclaim Developer, Case Management Developer, Law, Web Developer, Web Designer SQL Queries, Proclaim Accounts may also be considered for this role.

Location: Melton (Hybrid)

Working Hours: 09:00 17:30

Salary: up to £45,000 depending upon experience

The purpose of this role is to understand and solve complex business problems and challenges through the design and development of software applications, services and components; ensuring high performance, reliability, and security. This role will contribute directly towards exciting technology opportunities in the public health sector; specifically in general practice.

Responsibilities

Design and development

Contribute towards the design, develop, and implement high-performance, scalable, and maintainable applications and services

Develop APIs and other web services

Work with databases (relational and NoSQL) to implement data models

Contribute towards all phases of the software development lifecycle, from design and development through to testing, deployment and monitoring & alerting

Technical Leadership

Coach and guide other members of the team

Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback

Promote software engineering best practices and principles

Participate in architectural and design discussions

Stay abreast of the latest technologies and industry trends

Problem-Solving

Diagnose and troubleshoot complex technical issues

Identify and contribute towards solutions designed to improve service or component security, performance, scalability, and reliability

Collaboration

Work closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders

Share ideas and prompt continuous improvement across the team

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Write unit tests and integration tests to ensure code quality

Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards

Comply with the companys Health & Safety, Data Protection, Information Security, PCI & DSP policies and procedures

Skills required

Essential

Knowledge of the product development lifecycle

Working experience with modern PHP including frameworks (e.g. Laravel)

Working experience with modern frontend frameworks/libraries (e.g. React)

Source control (e.g. GitLab)

Working experience with structured and unstructured databases (e.g. MySQL)

Experience with Message Queues (RabbitMQ) & event driven architecture

Strong knowledge of software design patterns and object-oriented design principles

Working experience of unit test frameworks and test automation

Desired

Strong expertise in Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum / Kanban)

DevOps tooling

Node.js

Healthcare industry experience (NHS)

VOIP call handling

Benefits

25 Days Holiday plus an additional day for your birthday/equivalent

Cycle to Work Scheme

Winter Flu Jabs

Free On-Site Parking

Learning and development budget with Professional Qualification Support

£1,000 employee referral bonus

Social benefits (paid social events)

Buy Holiday Scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Discount on Health Insurance

Annual Salary Review

Enhanced Company Sick Pay

Monthly pizza in the office (Hybrid employees) / coffee voucher (Remote employees)

SCG mobile benefit

SCG is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all parts of the community and are committed to upholding the principles of the Equality Act 2010.

We are committed to supporting applicants with disabilities. We will endeavour to make necessary adjustments to ensure a fair and accessible recruitment process

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Scaling, recently invested into technology company is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager / Head of Software Engineering, to be the senior technical authority driving the strategic evolution of the development environment towards a scalable, software-first SaaS platform. With sustained, 20% year-on-year growth, you ll relish working in a fast-paced development environment where you will be free to make, guide & select the best way forward in both your people & technology selection. An excellent opportunity to make your mark as a key, senior figure in an ambitious, forward-thinking company! Job title: Head of Software Development May also be known as: Software Development Manager, or Head of Software Engineering. Location: Southwest England. Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Cardiff, Plymouth all reasonable. We are relaxed about office time / home time, but think to be effective in this role, you ll need to be able to spend a good amount of time in the office; certainly, toward the beginning of your tenure, with flexibility coming when your team & you are comfortable. Salary: £85K - £90K Basic + Bonus + LTIP + Benefits package The role Acting as a key partner to the Technology Director and the Head of Delivery, you will oversee all software engineering disciplines, ensuring technical solutions are scalable cloud-native, robust, & secure by design. You will lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team, encompassing Frontend, Backend, Mobile, Hardware, DevOps, and QA; Fostering a culture of technical rigour that integrates software agility with the continued evolution of the core technology. Core of what you will need to bring - Proven leadership, with experience leading a multidisciplinary technology function encompassing software development. - Extensive experience successfully driving large-scale architectural transformation and modernization projects (e.g., monolithic to microservices, legacy stack replacement). - Expertise in cloud-native, scalable system design. - Deep understanding of modern web and mobile architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless patterns. Our current stack is PHP, React, Native mobile. HOWEVER we are not tied to this & part of the role will be to assess, change & drive forward change. Please apply now for this excellent career opportunity.

Permanent role (Hybrid - 3 days a week) Our client is rapidly expanding and looking for a Senior Engineer to join their development team. They offer an excellent work environment and culture as well as generous benefits and career progression As a Senior Engineer in this fast-paced environment, you will create and implement client-side solutions and have a product mindset. As an engineer, you will be responsible for writing server-side web application logic. You will be developing back-end components, connect the application with the other (often third-party) web services, and support the Web Designer by integrating their work with the application. Experience: Using PHP to produce user-friendly HTML web solutions. Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules. Developing back-end portals with an optimized database. Collaboration Collaboration with other members of the team to improve usability on existing and new projects. Ensuring high-quality and efficient/optimized source code to maximize response times, and a slick user experience. Liaising with clients where necessary. Existing projects Troubleshooting application and code issues. Finalizing back-end features and testing web applications. Updating and altering application features to enhance performance. Key Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Competencies Deep understanding of both development processes, as well as a strong technical background. Experience in the following technologies PHP JQuery HTML Less/CSS/Flexbox Apache MySQL/MariaDB Linux (maintaining local website distributions) Git Zend Framework/Laminas MVC Essential skills: Proven work experience in a Web Developer role Experience in browser testing and debugging (e.g. Chrome Console) Agile ways of working Knowledge of eCommerce and payment systems Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services

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Our clients are looking for a experienced NetSuite Developer to join their team

Essential Skills:

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript
• Strong knowledge of Suite Script 2.x
• Strong knowledge of NetSuite Advanced Pdf Development / Freemarker
• Strong knowledge of NetSuite Workflow experience
• Strong knowledge of JQuery
• Strong knowledge of Html
• Good knowledge of React.js
• Good knowledge of Vue.js
• Knowledge of Web Services
• Knowledge of XML
• Knowledge of SQL

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with Netsuite or SAP Business ByDesign would be highly desirable
• Linode
• Unit Testing
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
• Knowledge of WebStorm
• Knowledge of GitHub
• Freemarker
• PHP
• AJAX

Other Skills/Abilities:

• Must possess a qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a similar subject, ideally along with minimum 3+ years commercial experience
• Familiarity with object oriented programming
• Demonstrated ability to respond to tight deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Proven experience in Team Lead/Lead Developer capacity with the ability to guide, shape and mentor
• The individual candidate must be able to work well in a team as well as independently
• Experience of the full Software Development Life Cycle will be advantageous
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills