Senior Developer

Business Comparison 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, Business Comparison 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 Business Comparison 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, we're looking to achieve three-figure growth over the next three years.  

We’re seeking an exceptionally talented Senior Developer to join our team. 

What we're looking for: 

Ideally, you’ll have around 6 years’ experience in web development, specialising in Laravel. 

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. 

As the Senior Developer you’ll complete both daily tasks and contribute to longer-term projects and goals. You’ll be working closely and liaising with stakeholders regularly so will be expected to manage your workload and time effectively.   

Required skills: 

• Expert knowledge of Laravel (TALL Stack) and PHP 8 

• Extensive knowledge of MySQL and query optimisation 

• Experience in AWS Cloud services and containerisation 

• Apache2 and LSWS 

• Creating and implementing API Restful services and integrations 

• Integration and set-up of EventBridge events 

• At least one front-end framework (React or Vue preferably) 

• CI/CD integration and building (utilising GitHub Actions) 

• Agile/Scrum methodology 

• Git functionality and documentation 

• Pre-processing with SCSS 

• Creating unit tests with PHPUnit & Jest 

• Comprehensive code reviewing and testing 

• Redis caching 

Desirable skills: 

• Statamic CMS 

• Hotjar set-up and integrations 

• Snyk integration and maintenance 

• Bugsnag usage and fixing 

• Node.js building 

• People Management 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 with some of the wider stakeholders to the role 

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