Recognised as one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK, it’s a really exciting time to be joining END. If you’re positive, passionate and dedicated and want to be part of our future success this could be the role for you.
BACKEND DEVELOPER (PHP) - FULL TIME, LONDON
Over the last 15 years, END. has evolved into a technology-led retailer that provides luxury and contemporary menswear and exclusive sneaker drops to a global audience. One of the most influential, forward-thinking and inspirational menswear companies in the world, we have fresh products hitting our website daily and our service never stops.
END. prides itself on delivering a first-class customer experience, which has underpinned our success. With over 2 million customers we deliver to over 80 countries around the world and our online business is complimented by our industry-leading retail stores in Newcastle, Glasgow and London.
We currently have an exciting opportunity in our IT Engineering department for a Backend Developer. You'll join our END. Backend team, primarily focussed on building and maintaining micro-services in a scalable, performant way that sit outside of our existing Magento backend. As part of our in house team, you will be able to produce your best work, in a relaxed creative environment, and will be rewarded by seeing the impact of your work on real customers in the real world.
What you'll be doing
Key responsibilities
- Develop and implement new cutting edge functionality for our END. e-commerce micro-services
- Work closely with other key team members to solve the technical challenges faced by a rapidly growing e-commerce business
- Provide support to other developers where required and assist with code reviews
- Work to improve performance and scalability
- Implement integrations to third-party systems such as ERP, payment gateways, fraud and marketing solutions
- Ad hoc development tasks for our other products may be required from time to time
What you'll be able to demonstrate
Skills and experience
- Extensive commercial PHP / MySQL experience
- Experience of working with Laravel or similar PHP framework
- Experience of building micro-services
- Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
- Experience with Git
- Experience with Test-Driven Development
- Solid experience working with 3rd party integrations and API’s
- Experience with Magento (bonus)
- Knowledge of/experience of working in Agile/Scrum environment
- An aptitude for creative problem solving
- A passion for creating clean and efficient code
- Excellent written and spoken English
What we can offer you
- Competitive salary
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Company pension scheme
- Generous staff discount
- R&D opportunities and yearly Hackathons — it’s important to us that everyone in our team is immersed in Tech and has time to play and innovate
- Opportunities for professional development and career progression
- Unlimited pats with our office dog — Insta-famous @iamfrankiethepomsky
- Eye-test vouchers
- Cycle-to-work scheme
Our core values underpin everything we do as a business. We always put our customers first, are passionate and dedicated and strive for excellence. To achieve this, we are positive and collaborative and keep it simple.
If you have what it takes to be part of our future success we want to hear from you.
Type of employment: Permanent, full-time
Closing date for applications: February 2020