Senior PHP Engineer

Skylab is a digital agency specialising in digital strategy and web software development and we are looking for an experienced Developer with a passion for digital to join us.

Founded in 2005, we are now firmly established as one of the leading digital innovation agencies in the country and were voted one of the UK’s top ten Future Leaders by Creative England, out of a field of over 500 creative businesses.

Skylab has a talented team, a great culture, great clients, creates world-class work and has digital innovation at its core. We care greatly about both the quality and the craft of our work.

Not everything below is essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge. We will happily talk to you about your natural strengths and also the areas that you are keen to improve.

Skylab is a wonderful journey and we are here to help you every step of the way.

Skills required:

• You are excellent at PHP
• You’ve worked with Laravel, building and consuming Rest APIs
• You can build and optimise MySQL queries
• You have a working knowledge of Design Patterns (such as Solid Principles)
• You want to participate in a skilled Agile team
• You have excellent attention to detail
• You’re a self starter and highly motivated

The following will support your application, but isn’t a deal-breaker:

• Proficient with Javascript, ideally React or Vue
• Experience in an agency environment
• Experience with Agile sprint planning, planning poker and retrospectives
• Experience with automated testing
• Comfortable talking with clients