Mid-level Software Developer

Business Comparison (BC) was formed in 2014 to become the comparison site for British businesses. Despite a multi-million P&L, it remains small, agile, and growing at a rapid pace with significant backing to fulfil its ambitions. In 2021, BC was acquired by one of its partners, the Bionic Group, given their closely aligned ethos of supporting the UK’s SME. This deal provided the necessary investment and support for BC to now realise its ambitions.

Business Comparison is here to make being in business easier, by matching our customers with the best solution for their individual needs. We are providing new and innovative ways to help businesses in the UK to become the market leader of a new segment, with the mid-term potential for international expansion of our solution. As a result, BC will be looking to achieve three-figure growth over the next three years.

We are seeking exceptionally talented individuals, who are constantly striving to challenge the status quo and make a positive difference to UK SMEs, therefore we have this fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic, fun, fast-growing business with a focused vision to deliver the best service to our customers.

What we're looking for:

Due to business growth, we're looking for a Mid-level Software Developer to join our team. You’ll be experienced in web development specialising in Laravel & PHP.

As a small agile business – all our stakeholders have a massive impact and say in the direction we head; we implore for feedback and creativity within the team.

You will be completing day-to-day tasks as well as contributing to long-term projects and goals within a specified time frame. You will be working closely and liaising with stakeholders on a regular basis so will be expected to manage your workload and time effectively.

As this is a hybrid role – you will be required to visit the office weekly. Please do not apply if you cannot make this commitment.

Required skills:

• 2+ years’ experience with Laravel
• 2+ years’ experience with PHP 7.4+/8
• Can comfortably create and run complex MySQL queries
• Creating and implementing API Restful services and integrations
• At least one front-end framework (React or Vue preferably)
• CI/CD integration and building (utilising GitHub Actions or Jenkins)
• Agile/Scrum methodology
• Git functionality and documentation
• Pre-processing with SCSS
• Creating unit tests with PHPUnit & Jest
• Comprehensive code reviewing and testing

Desirable skills:

• Statamic CMS
• Hotjar set-up and integrations
• Snyk integration and maintenance
• AWS or DevOps experience

Interview process

• Initial conversation with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
• 1st stage – 30-minute meeting with the Hiring Manager
• 2nd stage – Technical assessment
• Final stage – 1 hour interview in person, with some of the wider team

About Bionic Group

Bionic has over 850 people working across three office locations and four businesses; Bionic - London, Bionic Outbound – Luton, Think Business Loans – Chelmsford, and Smart – Field based agents.

We have a high energy work environment wherever the location; you can feel the passion the moment you walk through our door! Our work environments are packed with amazing people and energy, hubs of collaboration, creativity and fun! We’re one team, we get stuck in, we roll our sleeves up and we care about helping each other out wherever we can. We set the highest standards and show up every day to be the best version of ourselves.

Working at Bionic means provides you many opportunities to advance your career, with incredible progression, recognition, and reward.

Benefits

We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors, our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks.

Enhance your health & wellbeing 🌱

• Private healthcare cover
• Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies
• Eyecare scheme

Taking time away from work 🏖️

• 25 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays, increasing with tenure
• 1 paid family/religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period
• 1 paid charity volunteering day per year
• Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year

Family matters: for the special moments 🏠

• Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
• 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service
• Flexible working options & a hybrid work approach

Financial wellbeing 💸

• Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure
• Cycle to work scheme

Recognition 🌟

• Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success
• Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition
• Long service awards