Software Engineer (PHP)

Velociti Solutions provides innovative digital transformation solutions and specialist consultancy in operational efficiency, safety and customer service excellence. With deep sector knowledge gained over 30 years, we are trusted by transport authorities, bus and rail operators worldwide.

As a Software Engineer, you are a core member of our development team delivering enterprise-quality software supporting local, national, and international customers across a range of solutions.

We strive to continuously improve our development and DevOps methodologies and tools supported by strong Agile principles.

This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week with core hours of +:30am – 4.00pm Monday to Friday. This position offers a hybrid working model which includes a mix of home and office working (2 days per month office based). Our offices are based in Sheffield City Center, Bromsgrove (Birmingham) or Oldham (Manchester)

Requirements

As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the implementation of our software solutions through the production of high-quality code. You will be involved in crucial stages of the development lifecycle throughout the build and deployment of our products and provide support post-deployment. You will work closely with others to produce quality code that is efficient, maintainable, and testable. This is full-stack role, focusing on developing services on the web, requiring a deep understanding of modern software architectures and development techniques.

You will work with the team to deliver new functionality, as well as improving and maintaining existing solutions. You will contribute to planning activities whilst aligning your workload to team delivery timescales.

Responsibilities
• Develop the next generation of our software using the latest web technologies with standard design patterns and practices, all in an agile environment.
• Architect and write clean, documented, testable and scalable code to new functionality to our solutions, as well as improving our existing codebase.
• Delivery of enterprise-quality, web-based API driven solutions.
• Contribute to Scrum events: Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement workshops and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Develop new features across and maintain all versions of our software.
• Participate in code, architecture, and other reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Supporting our colleagues in the deployment, support, and infrastructure teams.
• Production of technical documentation, wikis, and release notes, where required, to support all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Learn and use our existing toolset and infrastructure

Skills And Experience
• Knowledge of software design patterns, SOLID principles, and advanced-level engineering approaches, such as DI/IoC, TDD, etc.
• PHP programming skills with demonstrable knowledge of the language.
• Experience of developing front-end applications using PHP, JavaScript / TypeScript / jQuery
• Experience of using the Angular Framework.
• Deliver and consume low-latency web services and APIs with a good understanding of REST and JSON.
• Experience in designing, building, and consuming APIs with OpenAPI (Swagger).
• Experience of database development using MariaDB
• Experience working with source control, automated build, deployment tools and package managers (Azure DevOps, Git, NuGet, NPM)
• Able to work in a fast-paced, delivery-focused, agile environment.
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills; able to present and articulate proposals, estimates, and solutions clearly and succinctly.
• Have a high level of maturity; able to receive constructive feedback, particularly during code and architecture reviews.

Benefits
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and an additional 3 days for Christmas
• Extra day’s leave for Birthday
• Hybrid working
• Company Pension
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Private health care
• Cycle-to-work scheme