Lead Developer

Job description
Hello!

We're Eleven Miles. A creative agency that combines insight with imagination to deliver more impact for our clients. Steered by hard evidence, and driven by a love of good work, we help brands big and small make confident, creative choices that get results.

Role Description

We are seeking a dynamic and results-oriented Lead Developer to join our Digital Team and play a pivotal role in steering our development output. As a Lead Developer, you will be responsible for pushing technical boundaries, leading our back-end developers and ultimately delivering exceptional work for our clients. This role will be based in Bournemouth with the flexibility for remote work.

Knowledge & Skills
• Experience within AWS working across the following services: EC2, RDS, S3 & Cloudfront. Experience with ElastiCache (Redis) & OpenSearch are nice to haves.
• Working knowledge of Ubuntu OS in relation to LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP) stack web server configuration, updates/upgrades and optimisations.
• Demonstrable experience with build tools and deployment pipelines/actions (bitbucket / github).
• Experience with Edge based network services from CDN's to security (i.e. BunnyCDN & Cloudflare).
• Working knowledge of DNS management, including platform migrations and integrations.
• Design and build extensible APIs/integrations in OO-PHP, either as standalone composer based packages, or WordPress plugins where code can be made reusable.
• Demonstrate understanding of PHP PSR coding standards (ideally PSR 12), ensuring that PHP code makes use of DocBlocks whilst producing well written code that follows best practises in regards to naming conventions and overall structure.
• Create and maintain supporting documentation as and when requested, ensuring that any 3rd party dependencies are also referenced as to their purpose and usage.
• Perform various data migrations, either manually via MySQL, PHP scripts or CLI tooling.
• Demonstrate a strong knowledge of both MySQL and the core WordPress WP_Query syntax with awareness of performance-led query optimisations and caching mechanisms and their implementation.
• Ability to produce technically accurate diagrams and/or instructions to help explain complex principles/processes, including data-driven schemas and/or architecture.
• Understand the use case for creating standalone database tables and bespoke schema if required, and be able to demonstrate how to use relational database keys and IDs for performant index queries
• Demonstrate understanding of the benefits and usage of various code standards and optimisation tools on projects, such as PHP CodeSniffer and PSR standard integrations.
• Understanding of WordPress CMS data structure, including Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, Plugin ecosystem and how these can be managed.
• Demonstrate understanding and ability to leverage infrastructure monitoring and logging tools to help debug code and identify potential issues before they cause critical problems.

Let's chat more about our full tech stack and how your experience compares.

What we offer

If working with some of the World’s most loved brands on breakthrough campaigns isn’t enough, we offer a great range of benefits including:
• Hybrid remote and other flexible working opportunities
• A friendly, social environment with a range of activities you can get involved in, employee recognition awards and ‘Sunshine Fridays’ (all year)
• Collaborative cross-department working within our full-service agency - and a focus on your career development
• A day off on your birthday and an annual leave entitlement that recognises length of service
• Cycle to work and electric vehicle schemes
• Support for your health and wellbeing
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• And so much more