Are you an accomplished Full Stack Developer, who is passionate about future-proofing business technology?

Want to work with a leading retail and ecommerce brand?

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are a well-established online retailer entering a growth period and looking to enlist the help of a contractor to work on a prestigious project ensuring that the tech we have in place will meet the current and future demands of the business.

• Make a significant impact on our technology and business processes.

• Put your skills to good use, ensuring that our tech stack is robust, scalable, and secure.

• Competitive day rate.

• Fully remote or hybrid working arrangement from our Birmingham HQ

THE PROJECT

Use your business savvy, analytical skills, and hands-on technical skills to:

• Assess our in-house and external systems to ensure alignment to the business operations and goals

• Provide us with a documented "System Health Check"

• Make necessary improvements to ensure our tech stack is efficient, robust, scalable, and secure.

• Support on ongoing front and backend development projects including integrations and implementations.

• Research and document and specific recommendations providing a business case for the adoption and highlighting risk.

Key project focus

You will receive a list of tech to be investigated, amongst these will include key areas such as:

• Web development, including optimised UX/UI for desktop and mobile browsers

• Intranet development

• Ecommerce, POS, payments and analytics

THE PERSON

1. Retail background

Good understanding of retail business (with large numbers of SKUs) and technical experience of setting up high performing systems in B2C ecommerce / distribution.

2. Business acumen

Able to understand process flows and interdepartmental co-dependencies in order to investigate and improve upon the tech which supports business activity.

Able to write business cases with cost benefit analysis, assessing risk, performance, security, scalability and costing.

3. Documentation skills

Able to provide high quality documentation, understandable to a non-technical readership. Making risk-assessed recommendations (with supporting business case) about the technology used, ability to scale and security measures required.

Must haves

• Proven hands-on experience experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar job responsibility.

• Strong understanding of modern technologies and frameworks.

• Strong written and communication skills

• The ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• As a minimum to be proficient in: Drupal 9 / Pantheon / Laravel / PHP / HTML / CSS / Javascript / Nginx / GIT / Zynk Automations / JQuery & JQuery UI / Swiper / XML Feeds / Bootstrap 5 / MariaDb / Newrelic / Varnish / Fastly / Cloudflare / SSL / DDOS / HSTS / Sage200 / Common payment platforms such as paypal, Klarna, google, apple

• Ability to work standalone, taking hands-on, proactive responsibility for the project findings and implementation of fixes, including testing.

• Ability to research, review and recommend alternatives to the above tech or additional tech with a strong business case.

Desirables

• Experience in using or implementing alternatives to the must-have tech

• Previously used SEO / PPC tools and familiar with how to optimise the results achieved.

• Based within commutable distance of Birmingham

APPLICATION PROCESS

Ready to Shape the Future with Us?

1. Apply

If this sounds like a good match for your skills, hit the apply button and send us a CV / cover letter highlighting why you would be a good fit for the project.

2. Phone screen

We will arrange an introductory phone call to see if this project is a good fit for both parties.

3. Project discovery

Meet with our leadership in Birmingham to discuss the project further, enabling you to create a scope of works with estimated timeline, costings and your rates as a Full Stack Developer

4. Scope submit, review and signoff