Senior Full Stack Developer

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About Us ​

We are Lightfoot, a high-growth technology company based just outside Exeter that is focused on making a difference worldwide, one driver at a time.  We help businesses and private motorists improve efficiency and safety. ​

​Our technology has been proven to reduce fuel use and emissions rates by 10-20%, and at-fault accidents and wear and tear by 40-50%. It connects to your vehicle’s on-board computer and uses all the live data it produces to analyse how efficiently you are driving. It’s similar to how performance is analysed in Formula 1. Lightfoot turns that data into simple feedback for you – the driver – so you know when you’re pushing your vehicle too far and can bring it back to maximum efficiency. Beyond the vehicle, our proprietary gamification platform engages users via our app, giving our driver community the opportunity to engage in their performance and to win weekly cash prizes and rewards for achieving Elite Driver standard. Our solutions are highly differentiated from the competition which has helped us secure circa 300 of the UK’s largest fleet customers including Tesco, Asda, Southwest Water, Iceland and Virgin Media to name a few.​

More recently, we’ve started leveraging our gamification IP to expand our product offering to beyond drivers. With our new app-only solution we can now incentivise and reward all sorts of measurable behaviours for our customers, from physical activity to online order picking. We’ve given away nearly £2m in prize money incentivising and rewarding desirable behaviours and are excited about the value this can bring to our customer and to our growth prospects.​

We’re a fun-loving bunch who are growing at an astonishing rate. We’ve moved into a state-of-the-art office near Exeter in the beautiful Southwest (which was voted Exeter’s ‘Best Workspace’). We are excited to keep growing the Lightfoot family with like-minded, passionate individuals who share our values:​

• We care deeply
• We are innovative
• We deliver excellence
• We are customer first
• We are friendly and celebrate individuality​

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About the role

As a senior developer you will have a hands-on role at all stages of the software lifecycle, giving input on planning and solution design, alongside coding, testing and maintaining web applications and APIs. You will work within a team of agile developers to build and support systems to a high standard of security, scalability and performance. Ideal candidates will have demonstrable experience working at a senior level across the full stack within a web development team, with keen attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.

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Key duties and responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain complex PHP web applications and APIs to deliver secure, scalable and performant solutions
• Design and develop front end code with a focus on security, accessibility and delivering a great user experience
• Mentor more junior developers, engaging in code reviews and encouraging best practise
• Provide input on key technology, architectural and development decisions

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Key skills and experience

• Extensive experience with web application & API development at a senior level is essential
• Expert understanding of microservice architecture is essential
• Expert knowledge of PHP is essential
• Hands-on experience of PHP frameworks (Symfony preferred) is essential
• Proficient in JavaScript, including modern MVVM frameworks (React preferred) is essential
• Proficient in SQL and experience with MySQL is essential
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) is essential
• Familiarity with design-led and mobile-led approaches is essential
• An understanding of good UI/UX design is beneficial
• A good working knowledge of Docker is beneficial
• Experience delivering SaaS solutions is beneficial
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines is beneficial

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Benefits​

• Annual bonus scheme
• 24 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Birthday leave – an extra day off to celebrate
• End-of-year company closure between Christmas and New Year
• Holiday buy-back scheme – the opportunity to buy up to an extra week’s leave per annum
• Company sick pay
• Simplyhealth Optimise health plan
• ​Simplyhealth Denplan dental plan
• Group life insurance (death-in-service)
• Company pension
• Long service awards 
• Refer-A-Friend scheme 
• Hybrid working 
• On-site parking
• Casual dress 
• Company social events and activities ​
• A personal Lightfoot device
• Bravo benefits including ​
•    cycle-to-work scheme​
•    financial wellbeing resources​
•    gym discounts​
•    MyMindPal app​
•    retail discount scheme​
•    tech benefits 

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