PHP Developer
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Tutorful are currently hiring software engineers with experience of working in a professional full stack team. Our team of engineers all have different backgrounds and your aptitude and willingness to learn are just as important to us as your qualifications and experience.
At Tutorful we have cross-functional squads, empowered to make their own decisions
We work in small product squads of usually four developers, a designer, a product manager and a representative from our Customer Success and Growth teams. Our squads are given quarterly objectives then the team works together to come up with ideas for initiatives, how to test what works, and how to measure progress to achieve the objective. Everyone gets to collaborate on how the product evolves.
At Tutorful you get to work with exciting technology
Our main tools and technologies are:
- Vue, TypeScript and Nuxt to write our front end components.
- PHP with Laravel to write our read and write apis and our job queues.
- MySQL for most persistent data storage, Redis for caching, and ElasticSearch for snappy search results.
- Swift and Kotlin to develop our iOS and Android apps.
- AWS infrastructure with automated deployments using CDK for infrastructure-as-code.
- Docker so we can quickly spin up a dev environment on our laptops and so we can horizontally scale in production on ECS.
- GitHub Actions to automate our continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
- We all have a shiny Macbooks to work on and licences for all the tools we need
We have a strong engineering culture of Kanban, fast feedback, automated testing, infra-as-code and continuous delivery. If these ideas are new to you then reading The Phoenix Project will change your life
What we are looking for:
- Someone who would enjoy working on our product and with the technologies we use, including PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Laravel, and Mobile.
- You have knowledge of developing new full stack software using those or similar technologies.
- You love to understand how everything works and to learn how to use new technologies.
- Build a feature? Fix a bug? Customer is confused? A production alert just fired? You like to step up to new challenges everyday and you get things done.
- You love working with other people to bounce around ideas and collaboratively solve problems.
- You agree the customer comes first and you like to make data-informed decisions.
- You know why making small changes, test automation and fast feedback are good ideas.
At Tutorful you can expect a great working environment and to continually improve your skills
- You will have 25 days holiday allowance, with an extra day for each year you are with us, up to 28 days. Need a little more? You can take an additional 5 days as unpaid leave.
- We have flexible working hours.
- We offer flexible remote work opportunities
- Everyone gets an annual training budget and there are opportunities to attend conferences and in-house training sessions. As well as two additional days leave focused towards training.
- We have regular company organised socials.
- You get £250 in lesson credit every year to spend on the Tutorful platform.
If the above is of interest to you or you have any additional questions please feel free to contact us.
- Department
- Development Team
- Locations
- Sheffield
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Sheffield
About Tutorful
Tutorful began in 2015, and we’ve taken the tutoring world by storm. Today, Tutorful has over 11,000 tutors on our books and have taught over 2 million lessons to over 140,000 students. We have backing from a leading VC and several prominent tech executives. We’re a close-knit and highly-skilled team who love working together to create something that genuinely helps thousands of people.
Everything we do at Tutorful is promoted by 5 company values, encompassing our culture and how we work as a team
- We put our customers first
- We favour small, autonomous teams with clear objectives
- We strive for impact
- We're open and transparent
- We work with awesome colleagues
Our revolutionary approach to tutoring and our fantastic growth have helped us become recognised as one of the top 100 startups in the UK. We have remained in a strong position and continued to grow in, and we have exciting plans for growth and expansion. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
We know that our wonderful team is the key to Tutorful’s success, and our first priority through will always be the safety and wellbeing of our team and their loved ones. We’d like to share with you some of the things we’ve done to give back and take care of our team:
- We’ve provided our team with amazing equipment so that working from home is comfortable for everyone
- We've invested in a great new office space to help our team work comfortably wherever they are, and build great relationships with each other.
- We reduced our weekly working hours to make sure that we are promoting a healthy work/life balance.
- We’ve set up an Employee Assistance Programme that means our team can access a confidential 24/7 helpline for any support they might need.
- We’ve created wellbeing guides for our team to support them through remote working, and to give them the tools to support each other, along with offering 2 wellbeing days per year to our team.
These are just a few things we’ve done to prioritise Tutorfullers, who’ve made us what we are today. We couldn’t be more proud of the team we have, or the inclusive environment that each and every one of them has contributed to fostering over the years.
PHP Developer
If you love modern tech, bouncing ideas around, problem-solving and working at a startup that's really making a difference...we want to hear from you!
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