We're The Printed Group, the brilliant minds behind, one of the largest and fastest growing online print shops in the UK. We're a passionate team that's obsessed with printing, designing, building, and growing our business to disrupt the industry. Our office is filled with forward-thinking, creative, and innovative individuals who are dedicated to helping our customers.
We are constantly investing in new products and using technology to improve how we increase our market share and take advantage of new opportunities. Catch us in our production space and you will find a fast-paced, dedicated team who endeavour to reach perfection for our customers.
We’re a growing company with offices in London and Newcastle, looking for employees that are equal parts dynamic and enthusiastic. People brimming over with new, original ideas that they just can’t wait to share with their team and bring to life.
Engineering @ The Printed Group
We are in what we class as the perfect position, with a team of experts in print, software development and customer service, a factory the size of a football pitch, and a design team worthy of challenging the best and an ethos of continual improvement.
Our tech stack is largely cloud-based, with a connectivity platform capable of enabling our own factory and servicing hundreds of other partners around the UK. We run multiple e-commerce sites, ERP and MIS applications. The platform is constantly improving and needs to scale globally in the next 12-18 months, allowing routing to appropriate partners and eventually linking to logistics systems for delivery to the consumer.
We have a multicultural team who build, grow and maintain our applications and the platform. Our engineering landscape provides the technology to extend our capabilities and features across our customer-facing applications, and Ravensworth, and plus a connectivity platform for e-commerce store building and workflow systems. The tech stack consists of technologies ranging from PHP and .NET to front-end technologies like Vue, AngularJs and React, running on cloud services and with a modern CI/CD pipeline.
The role requires 2 days in our Cramlington offices per week, working closely with the engineering, production and operations teams.
Requirements
As a Mid-level PHP Web Developer at The Printed Group, you'll be:
1. Experienced as a programmer working in a company for a minimum of 2 (two) years
2. Writing maintainable, scalable code which is built in accordance with best practices
3. Working in an Agile environment and with a cross-functional team running Continuous Integration and Deployment programme
4. Assisting with the researching of solutions, innovating the tools and extending the frameworks
5. Sharing ownership of the technical stack, both in terms of product delivery and technical innovation
6. Being pro-active in continually developing skillset and industry knowledge, sharing learnings and experience with the team where possible
7. Working towards migrating from AngularJs to Vue and various other frameworks supporting the upgrade paths required
8. Maintaining and updating current eCommerce platforms/projects built on Symfony, AngularJs, Vue
9. Building upon the frontend interfaces/tools and implementing new features for them
10. Following TDD and creating thorough frontend/backend tests with the QA team
11. Code reviewing your own and other peers work, to demonstrate reasoning
12. Able to commute to our Cramlington (outside of Newcastle) office and manufacturing facility a minimum of 2 (two) days per week
Skills:
13. An ambitious problem solver and with an eagerness to build applications and extensions
14. Have at least 3 years’ experience working on large web applications using frontend frameworks (Vue ideally, AngularJs or React), backend frameworks (Symfony or Laravel) and having exposure to Docker, Vagrant etc. setups
15. Are experienced in developing on highly scalable platforms
16. Come with at least 2 years’ experience working with custom and/or off-the-shelf e-commerce platforms
17. Understand the technical constraints of e-commerce processes
18. Is passionate about engineering practices like Agile, CI/CD, TDD, traceability and observability
19. Love to share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
20. A great communicator, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
21. Staff discounts & Friends and Family discounts
22. Cycle to work scheme
23. Charity day per annum supported
24. Street food days
25. Access to Perkbox
26. Flexibility to work from home 3 days per week
Plus there's plenty of fun stuff going on to keep our energy levels up like street food days, summer and Christmas parties, kitchens filled with breakfast, fruits, teas, coffees and the odd cake!