Brightpearl Life

PHP Engineer

Bristol, UK
Come join an award-winning tech business in the heart of Bristol where we’re making the lives of retailers simpler by automating the back office.

Location: Bristol, UK

About the Role

We are looking for talented, experienced PHP engineers to join our polyglot language team in the UK, building SaaS applications for online retailers. Our main languages are Java, Go, and Javascript for the frontend. The ideal candidate is an expert PHP engineer that can help us reduce the surface of a legacy monolith that we are in the process of porting to a microservice architecture. No new features are going to be developed in our PHP system, so our ideal candidate is someone interested to learn FE technologies, Java and Go in the long run.

Your Day-to-Day

  • Work in a small cross-functional team to move functionality out of our existing PHP system to a microservice architecture developed mainly in Java and Go
  • Apply quick fixes to the existing PHP code to recover bugs or vulnerabilities
  • Work closely with other engineers, quality analysts, performance analysts, business analysts, system administrators, product managers, customers and partners.
  • Improve your technical skills by using Java and Go in a fully automated CI/CD environment
  • Diagnose problems seen in production and advise on solutions.
  • Have the opportunity to develop your career in the direction of technical or team leadership
  • Have access to training on relevant technologies in our platform and beyond

About you

  • Have 3-5 years of commercial experience writing well-tested code in PHP
  • Experience tracking down bugs in a production environment.
  • Have a good understanding of application comms protocols (HTTP, REST).
  • Experience working on concurrent and distributed applications.
  • Enjoy working in an agile team.
  • Be a good communicator.
  • Confident working independently to achieve shared outcomes
  • Enjoy variety in your work and be willing to pick up new tools, technologies, and techniques.

Ideally you’ll have

  • Working experience of docker and kubernetes.
  • Experience using our core languages Java and Go
  • Working experience using message queue infrastructure (e.g RabbitMQ).
  • Experience using Cucumber or equivalent for end-to-end testing.
  • Experience using React or equivalent for front-end development.
  • Experience with the Continuous Delivery and DevOps styles of development.
  • Understanding of how SaaS applications are hosted and provisioned.
  • Be comfortable developing software to non-functional requirements of reliability and performance.
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Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we collaborate and learn from each other is core to Brightpearl’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a supportive place to work.