Full Stack Developer

About us:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Full-Stack Application Developer to join our collaborative development team. This role is central to scaling a successful faculty-level initiative into a University-wide student attendance and engagement platform.

You will play a key role in enhancing an existing Laravel-based application, building new features, and contributing to solutions that directly improve student experience, wellbeing, and engagement across the institution.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a meaningful product that delivers real-world impact by enabling early intervention and support for students.

About the role:

In this role, you will design and create solutions for user stories in PHP using the Laravel framework for education and welfare, as well as tools for our support teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance features within a Laravel-based web application
• Contribute to the expansion of an attendance monitoring system into a university-wide solution
• Translate user stories into scalable, maintainable technical solutions
• Collaborate in Agile (Scrum) delivery cycles, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Participate in technical design discussions and whiteboarding sessions
• Conduct and contribute to code reviews to maintain high engineering standards
• Work closely with business analysts and stakeholders to clarify requirements and define acceptance criteria
• Develop and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensure quality delivery

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30th April 2027.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Proven track record of developing in PHP 8.0 or newer, and Laravel 11 – 13
2. Deep understanding of developing on MySQL, MariaDB or AWS Aurora, writing and optimising queries (especially in ANSI SQL)
3. Hands-on experience using Git version control, deployment pipelines, and agile workflows
4. Practical experience writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests, working with a testing team
5. Hands-on experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
6. Demonstrable history of successful projects e.g. GitHub repos or ability to talk in detail
7. Frontend JavaScript development experience in Vue.js (especially the composition API)
8. Frontend CSS development experience in Tailwind CSS, bootstrap
9. Deep understanding of software design principles and best practices

Desirable criteria

1. Computer Science Degree
2. Typescript development experience
3. Python development experience
4. AWS automation experience
5. Experience architecting and managing containers on AWS

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