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We're looking for a UK-based Middleweight Back-end Developer to join our close-knit team.
Bliss is predominantly an open source agency, which is beneficial for our for our nonprofit and charity customers. Much of this is based in PHP, but we also use popular, modern technologies such as Node.js and Laravel.
Summary
- Salary: Depending on talent, skills and experience. Bliss use a salary banding system to encourage fairness and transparency.
- Start date: Flexible.
- Location: Remote, but candidate must be based in the UK, to allow for regular face to face meetings.
- Hours: 5 days per week is preferred, but part time applications are welcome. Bliss operates a flexible working policy.
- Ideal experience: This is a Middleweight role, so we’re looking for more than 3 years’ commercial experience.
Digital with Purpose
Bliss provides digital strategy, development and support for organisations that make the world a better place.
We’re friendly, collaborative and fair, and require all team members to embody these core values.
Bliss is a sustainable business that wants to contribute more than we take. Our work in the humanitarian, charity and nonprofit sectors reflects our values, and we are looking to expand this in 2021 and beyond. We are an accredited employer of the Living Wage Foundation, and are working toward B Corp certification.
Quality is very important to us, and we are constantly striving to improve our skills, knowledge and working practices. Where we don’t think we’re able to be great, we’ll look to partners who are.
If this sounds like the sort of agency you’d like to work for, we’d love to hear from you!
Our values
At Bliss, personal values are as important as experience and skills. If you’re not a good fit for our agency, you won’t enjoy your job, and that’s not good for anyone.
Be Good
We look after each other, the planet, and all humankind.
We’re not selfless, but will choose to do the right thing above all else.
Be Friendly
We are open and transparent with our colleagues and clients.
We hope to create friendships from work relationships, gaining trust and respect.
Be Harmonious
We work to the same goals even if we don’t agree individually.
We value collective success as much as we do personal victories.
Skills and Experience
You probably need these skills to be great at this job:
- Developing and maintaining back-end code for websites.
- Be proficient with PHP.
- Built or integrated some REST APIs.
- Can query and maintain MySQL / PostgreSQL.
- Know your way around Git, GitHub, GitLab, Git anything really.
- Merging code responsibly and contributing to Code Reviews.
Having experience with these skills would be a benefit:
- Building modules or themes in Drupal 7, 8, 9.
- Familiar with Docker and Composer.
- Have hands on experience with Go, Python or Node.js.
- Used a framework like Laravel or Symfony.
Benefits
We love benefits!
- Flexitime.
- Flexible access to office space, where and when you need it.
- Healthcare scheme, including counselling, dental and opticians.
- Accident and accidental death insurance.
- Profit-related bonus.
- Buy / sell holiday scheme.
- Individual annual training budget, plus additional budget for group activities.
- Social budget - staff that play together, stay together!
- Holiday loyalty scheme - earn up to 30 holidays per year.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- A generous pension scheme - 5% matched contributions.
- Employee purchase scheme, to help you buy headphones and bags.
- and many more planned!
Some benefits are only available after probation, and can be withdrawn or amended in the future to ensure they are providing value for the team and business. Generally though, we’ll be looking to add and improve these over time.
Remote working?
We’ve always believed in being flexible, and are currently moving from an office-first to a remote-first model. We believe that both working together face-to-face and working from home have benefits, and will provide the best of both worlds to our team.
But above all, we believe in flexibility.