PHP Developer

Department: Product & Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Texas

Reporting To: John Kramer

Description

Why LBR?

An amazing market position, enviable growth, collaboration and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to further your career with Law Business Research. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, agility, and respect in everything we do.

Law Business Research has been selected as a winner for the 2024 Inspiring Workplaces Awards. We’re proud of our inclusive and inspiring culture here at LBR and we remain committed to creating a positive workplace for all our employees

We are happy to share that we have partnered with Business Disability Forum to help us on our journey to becoming a more inclusive employer and achieving Level 2 Disability Confident Accreditation.

We also take our place in this world of ours very seriously and engage in a wide variety of charitable and community based initiatives. We work extensively with Swawou School in Sierra Leone, which we established to provide education for 120 girls, and on an ongoing basis we underwrite the school’s costs.

‘We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, gender identity/expression or reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.’

Key Responsibilities

As a Developer at LBR, your primary responsibility is developing and improving the company's digital product portfolio. You will also support other team members with technical challenges, continuing to strengthen your technical skills and keeping aware of new technologies. Developers should also flag any threats to LBRs digital product portfolio for internal and external systems that they become aware of.

Implementation

Work, as part of your team, with the software and product teams to deliver the software
roadmap to develop and constantly improve the customer facing products.
Continuous improvement for web development
Quality, security and performance of the codebase
Work within the company's processes and support company initiatives
Support your manager and Senior Developers to define technical deliverables for roadmap work
Technical implementation of sprint objectives
Provide broad brush estimates for roadmap planning and finer-grained estimates for sprint planning

Operational

Help to resolve issues with applications in a timely manner

Security

Keep bugs and known security vulnerabilities to a minimum

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Understand the principles of developing reliable software that can scale to business needs
Self-motivated and driven
Excellent time management skills
Good self-organizational skills
At least three years of experience in a software development role
Experience working within an Agile software development environment
Good business and process analysis skills
Knowledge of best practice development principles
Ability to prioritize work and to escalate where necessary
Capable of developing good relationships with product managers and stakeholders
Ability to work calmly under pressure
Clear communicator
Demonstrates initiative and resourcefulness
Address any issues with a positive attitude
IT knowledge and ability to use VS Code, Jira, Confluence

Tech skills

PHP 8
PL/pgSQL
Elasticsearch
Docker
Azure DevOps

Benefits

Our people are our most valuable asset, as such, we offer a wide range of benefits to help ensure that all are supported:

401K with matching
Wellbeing Allowance of $500/annum
Private medical coverage (including Dental & Vision)
Annual leave
Employee Assistance Program

We are committed to making our organization an inclusive, respectful & engaging place to work with a culture shaped by our core values that promote equality, collaboration & respect in everything we do. We are proud to be part of the Disability Confident Scheme, meaning we are committed to being inclusive and accessible, which starts with our application and recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made, please let us know as part of our application page.

Key Responsibilities

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Benefits

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