PHP Developer

Tes Global ,
Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Overview

Job Description

PHP Developer Leamington Spa Full time, permanent 50,000 - 55,000 per year Who are tes? Tes Global is a global digital education company that has been supporting educators for over 100 years. We believe in the power of great teaching. We support and connect teachers and schools worldwide, helping them to improve children's lives through education. With more than 13.7m education professionals and enthusiasts in our online community using over 900k classroom resources and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries we have the scale to make a difference. Our innovative products and services are delivered through a range of partners across the globe. We help schools find the teachers they need; we bring new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; we provide teachers with continuous professional development and help educators with safeguarding training and compliance. We provide innovative tools to help teachers succeed in the classroom as well as bring educators together online so they can share expertise and provide them with vital news and information about education. We are leader in using digital technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. The services offered through Tes.com play a critical role helping teachers and school leaders deal with the challenges of providing high quality education to millions of children across the globe. Our group comprises of Tes, Tes Institute, Educare, Edukey, EdValand market leading supply teacher services; Vision for Education, Smart Teachers and ABC Teachers. Role Overview Tes builds and operates a number of services which deliver training and continuing professional development for Teachers and the wider school community. The train squad is responsible for all of the systems and development to support training and CPD delivered by Tes. The train squad is part of a wider Tes engineering team which has more than 50 full time software engineers. We are looking for PHP developers to join the team to help shape our systems transition. We are working on an evolutionary strategy to transform some of the largest learning platforms. We need people who can help us to build world leading systems that we need for the future whilst helping to keep the lights on. Knowledge, skills and attributes We are looking for someone with: - At least 3 years commercial PHP development, working on a modern code base, including object orientation. - A solid understanding of working with large scale relational datasets and database management systems - Experience of building and working with REST APIs - A strong team player that likes to learn and to help others learn As a bonus, it would be great if you have experience of any of the following: - Knowledge of the full PHP web stack and exposure to front end development - Use of version control systems (ideally git) - Exposure to Moodle or other LMS platforms - Understanding of working in an environment with Continuous Integration pipelines. - Test Driven Development and test automation. - Work on integration projects or patterns - Experience with node.js - Experience within an agile team - The ability to work in a fast paced dynamic environment What do you get in return? A basic salary of 50,000-55,000, 25 days annual leave rising to 30, 5% pension after probation, state of the art offices, access to a range of benefits via Perkbox, free health care, free eye care cover, free Westifeld Health cover. We are proud of our people centric culture, where we are all driven to achieve the same goal, and a supportive and consultative environment, to support you with personal career development.