Senior Developer / Team Leader

My client based in Guiseley are recruiting for a Senior Developer / Team Leader to join there small friendly company, they have exciting expansion plans and a friendly approachable team spirit You will be leading a small team of developers working closely with the Project Manager and the client to continue the high standard of work expected of us. We require you to work in our office in Guiseley, and there may be some flexibility over your hours of work. The modern office is right next to the railway station and with onsite parking. Dress Code - casually in the office except when meeting clients, and welcome you to do the same. Essential Skills Good business and technical presentation skills Good written and verbal communication skills and good standard of English Excellent attention to detail, and system testing skills Strong technical background in Laravel, PHP, JavaScript etc. Competent with MySQL, and experience of large datasets Experience of Svelte and/or VueJS would be an advantage Able to conduct code reviews and recommend improvements Understand and use Secure by Design practices Able to code to PSR-12 standards Experience building and consuming Rest APIs Be able to mentor and train your team Have a desire to keep up to date with technology changes Experience with GIT, Vagrant, PHPunit and Selenium (or similar tools) Proven skills in writing good unit tests Knowledge of cloud technologies, especially AWS The successful candidate will be a strong, approachable leader with a strong technical background. You will be responsible for prioritising, specifying and testing changes and new developments. You will report to the Project Manager, and will work closely with the client’s programme team to determine the best solutions, taking technology, time and budgets into consideration. Your responsibilities will include estimating and time planning, keeping track of your own projects and development team, undertake code reviews and assist with system testing. You will support, and stand in for other team leaders as is necessary. Your work will be neat and well documented, efficient and accurate.