We are Printed.com, one of the largest and fastest growing on-line print shops in the UK. We are filled to the brim with a passionate team who are mad about printing, designing, building and growing the business. In the office you’ll find that we are forward-thinking, with a mission to be creative, innovative and to help 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.
At The Printed Group, we're always investing in new products, machinery, and technology to improve our market share and seize new opportunities. Our sprawling production space is home to a fast-paced and dedicated team that strives for perfection in serving our customers.
Engineering @ The Printed Group
We're in an enviable position with a team of print, software development, and customer service experts, a massive football pitch-sized factory, and a design team that can rival the best. We have a culture of continual improvement and our tech stack is largely cloud-based. Our platform powers our own factory operations as well as servicing hundreds of partners across the UK.
Our multicultural engineering team builds, grows, and maintains our applications and platforms. We work with technologies ranging from PHP and .NET to front-end technologies like Vue, AngularJs, and React. Our offices are located in Central London and Cramlington, near Newcastle in the North East.
About The Position
You'll be part of the team focussed on the our print platform. Whilst the system has been in existence and carefully maintained since 2017, and used primarily for servicing our eCommerce shops and manufacturing, we're embarking on launching this as a service with a new brand in the group. This is a significant step forward for the business and the team tasked with continually improving it.
As a Mid-level Full Stack PHP Developer at The Printed Group, you'll be:
- Enhancing and developing the platform API, used by storefronts, manufacturers and our own internal teams
- Writing clean, secure and tested code
- Collaborating with team members for technical discussions
- Documenting technical aspects of new or changed APIs
- Continually developing your skillset and industry knowledge and sharing your learnings and experiences with the team
- An ambitious problem solver who loves building applications and extensions
Responsibilities:
You will be working under the supervision of our lead Software Engineer who is based at our offices in Central London but regularly visits to the Newcastle for collaboration on projects.
Specifically, you will:
- Implement requirements for new functionality and changes to our existing website.
- Ensure that project progress is communicated effectively and delivered to schedule, and that only changes that have been approved/signed-off are implemented.
- Work with our internal QA team.
- Deliver code that adheres to best practices and that has been tested thoroughly locally before it's sent to QA.
- Submit your changes to code review and make revisions based on discussion thereon.
Requirements
Skills and experience required:
We'd like to see evidence of understanding, competence and engagement in:
- PHP 5.3+, especially with Composer - PSR is especially valuable
- JavaScript - Ideally with good knowledge of AngularJS
- Object-oriented programming - SOLID is especially valuable
- An MVC Web Framework - preferably Symfony
- An ORM - especially Doctrine
- Git flow and the code review process – especially BitBucket
- An issue tracking/ requirements management system – especially JIRA
- API interaction, especially with JSON (including JSON-RPC) and REST
- SQL - especially MySQL
- Front end languages; HTML, CSS (LESS/SASS)
- A templating engine - especially Twig
- Working knowledge of Linux, preferably Ubuntu - command-line is especially valuable
- Keen eye for detail and adherence to processes to ensure delivery of quality code
- Ability to work to specific requirements and deadlines
- Hands on, ability to take on diverse tasks as part of a small team
- Excellent verbal and written English language skills
- Interpersonal and communication skills - We like good friendly people!
Benefits
- Staff discounts & Friends and Family discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Breakfast and drinks provided
- Charity day per annum supported
- Summer and Christmas Parties
- Street food days
- Access to Perkbox
- Flexibility to work from home 3 days per week
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