What is the point of this role?
As a Back-End Developer at ANS, you will be given the opportunity to work on a wide range of exciting projects, using the latest technologies and advancements, in a truly agile environment.
You will spend your week ‘on the tools’, attending agile ceremonies, cutting code, and contributing to our projects in all ways.
What will I be doing?
- Deliver high value outputs regularly
- Advocate for throughput over output
- Learning and utilising programming languages, frameworks and development tools
- Be confident enough to admit when you don't know something and be passionate about finding solutions.
- Understand that "done is better than perfect" to maintain productivity and progress.
- Ensure security risks are considered, identified, reduced, and mitigated when designing, developing, testing, and implementing new products & services.
What will I bring to the role?
- Experience in a commercial software developer role and able to demonstrate capability to deliver high quality, well principled code quickly – even when under pressure
- Demonstrate an understanding of agile principles and methodologies like Scrum or Kanban
- Exposure to a broad technology landscape – understanding when to build vs use off-the-shelf capabilities
- Experience of mentoring and coaching junior developers, providing guidance and support for their technical growth.
- Experience in PHP is a must.
- Experience in one of the PHP frameworks, Laravel, Symfony or CodeIgniter. Previous commercial experience of working with Laravel is preferred.
What is needed to do the role?
- Ability to ensure thorough testing of applications, including writing and maintaining unit and integration tests.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and resolve complex technical issues.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality software solutions.
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Prior experience in leading technical initiatives
- Strong proficiency in PHP, including at least one framework like Laravel, Symfony or CodeIgniter.
- Proficiency with JavaScript and frameworks like Vue.JS
- Experience with version control systems.
- Previous experience working Inertia, Livewire and NuxtJS is welcome but not required for this role.
- Strong commercial experience delivering backend or full-stack end projects.
Why work for ANS?
At ANS, we’ve created a place where everyone can be themselves, and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness, ambition, honesty, and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold, courageous, and innovative – and we do it like no other. We invest in our people. In training, development, health and more – we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.
We’re proud of the inclusive, fun, dynamic environment we’ve created. It’s a safe space that works for all. You don’t have to be a techie to work in tech. Bring your authentic self and find your dream role here. Find out more at LinkedIn pages.
What’s in it for you?
With fantastic benefits, an inclusive culture, and a cool office space, we’re your kind of workplace.
Company benefits
- As standard: 25 days’ holiday, plus you can buy up to 5 more days
- A little extra: we’ll give you your birthday off, and an extra celebration day for whatever you want! Tying the knot? You get 5 days’ additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh, and 5 volunteer days!
- Private health insurance
- Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
- Flexible working and work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
- Maternity: 16 weeks’ full pay, Paternity: 3 weeks’ full pay, Adoption: 16 weeks’ full pay
- Company social events – get ready for a jam-packed calendar
- Electric car scheme
- 12 days of personal growth development time
ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes only.
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What We Do
We are ANS. We’re a strong team of straight-talking tech and business experts. Our mission is to make digital transformation accessible to all.
We make enterprise-grade technology, knowledge and processes accessible and affordable for all companies, large or small, no matter the size of their budget. We hack the tech adoption curve, bringing technology usually reserved for large corporates first, to small and medium organisations too. We’re on a mission to help companies Think Bigger.
We’re trusted by our customers because we help them achieve their goals. Be it a digital transformation project for a 2000-person government body or helping a 10-person labels maker take their business online.
Our people are the lifeblood of our business. They dream up solutions that have never been delivered before. They dare to tackle problems no one else can. Every day they wake up and challenge the status quo. It’s no wonder we’ve been hailed the mavericks of the tech industry.
