PHP Software Developer (ID: UbCjcnEQ)

Come and join the Loadbalancer team, as a PHP Software Developer and help be a part of the solution that keeps businesses critical systems flowing.

Loadbalancer is home to passionate people who value our mission - that every customer needs a secure, scalable system that never goes down.

Since 2003, we have provided reliable, versatile and cost-effective load balancers engineered to improve the availability of most critical IT applications. We have extensive experience in solving application delivery challenges, so we provide honest advice and outstanding support.

Everyone here is committed to making Loadbalancer.org representative of providing innovative solutions, along with expert, personalised support, so that our customers’ applications never fail.

An open and transparent working environment:

You can get involved in all parts of the business that interests you whilst staying in the know as all emails for the company are visible in an open email archive. We encourage you to learn new technologies and contribute to open source software as much as possible. Being advocates of the open source community, we regularly contribute back in any way possible.
We also have a fantastic blog which has proved to be a popular source for learning about load balancing and other technologies. Being advocates of the open source ethos, we regularly contribute by helping the communities by answering external forums too.

Who you are:

As a passionate PHP Software engineer, you’re comfortable working within a team environment of like-minded people with experience in backend development.
You have the confidence to speak up when you have new ideas and will disagree with design decisions if they think they are not the best direction to go moving forward.
Lastly, you’re able to adapt to a constantly changing workspace and show initiative. We have large ambitions!

What you'll be doing

• Working on our load balancer product to deliver product features via our REST API in PHP.
• Collaborating with our frontend developers to develop intuitive and clear interfaces.
• Working with your peers on tools to improve our joint overall development experience.

You should apply if:

• Strong object-oriented PHP experience and/or other backend languages.
• Attention to detail and user experience.
• Ability to write elegant, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Integration of data storage solutions.

Preferred experience:

• Agile experience.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning and testing tools, such as Git and CI/CD.
• Proficiency in ES6 Javascript or GO.
• Example portfolio available on Github or another provider.
• Strong networking background.

Benefits:

We offer a range of flexible working & holiday arrangements to improve our employee’s work-life balance. We operate a profit-sharing scheme which entitles all employees to benefit from the companies success and growth! We provide a variety of pension contribution options including; salary sacrifice and employer contributions on qualifying, or gross income. There is a group life insurance policy covering UK workers as well as a holiday entitlement scheme allowing individuals to acquire an extra day's holiday per full year of employment (up to 5 days). The business also offers flexible personal loans depending on individual circumstances.