Senior PHP Developer - Chichester

If you're serious about PHP, there's a job with your name on itat D3R.

About D3R

At D3R, we create wonderful bespoke websites and businesssystems for new and existing clients in ecommerce, hospitality andbeyond.

D3R was founded by developers and still over three quarters ofour team are technical. We take a long term view. That applies tohow we choose our clients, how we write our code, and how we treatour employees.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for developers who are experienced with andenthusiastic about PHP to join our Chichester team.

There are many skills and technologies that would be useful, butto be a great fit for this role, you should have experiencespending the majority of your time knee deep in object-oriented,modern PHP.

As a more senior developer, you'll also need excellentcommunication skills and solid commercial understanding. We don'thave a typical project management layer so these skills are vital,both with clients and the rest of the team.

On the technical side, you should have the following skills:

• You feel at home in modern PHP 8 and are experienced usingobject-oriented principles to solve complex problems.
• You think and care about code reuse and abstraction and arealways looking for ways to increase the leverage of the code youwrite.
• You have a solid understanding of Composer and know how to useit to manage public and private dependencies.
• You have experience with at least one PHP framework or haveworked with a large, complex application.
• You care about code quality and have put this into practice bytesting with PHPUnit or static analysers, ideally setting upcontinuous integration tooling to automate this.
• You're not scared of being a bit of a detective - this couldmean jumping into code and following a bug around but also workingsomething out with your colleagues when two heads are better thanone.
• You have a track record of getting things done and focussing ondelivery. You are good at predicting how long a piece of work islikely to take and recognising potential risks ahead of time.

There are lots of other skills we like our devs to have and forthis role we would expect candidates to be able to demonstrateexperience in a number of the following areas:

• Ecommerce and payment integrations. If you've been involvedwith PCI compliance that would be even better.
• Web performance. How to measure it, how to improve it, and whatvalue that might bring a client.
• A deep understanding of SQL (we use MariaDB). How to writecomplex queries, optimise performance, and design scalable databaseschema.
• Sysadmin and DevOps. We use AWS and CloudFlare along withDebian, Puppet, and Terraform. We are always on the lookout forcareful, experienced heads to help us manage and improve ourinfrastructure.
• AI and agentic coding skills. Ideally you've done enough ofthis to know which things AI does well, which it does badly, andhow to make good decisions about when you take over to ensure thatyou are gaining a genuine productivity boost.

What we can offer Genuinely engaging work

Nothing we do is off-the-shelf. Being a developer at D3R meansyou get to make a real difference to our clients' businesses. Youwon't get bored and you won't stop learning.

Own it

At D3R everyone has a stake in our success. As an employee ownedcompany, you don't just work here. You help shape our future.

A package that's hard to beat

Competitive salary, life insurance, dental cover, team lunches,extra earned holiday and even a twice yearly tax-free bonus.

The chance to progress quickly

Keep rising to the challenge and we'll keep moving you up. It'sas simple as that.

Not the usual 9 to 5 Flex appeal

Hybrid working option and flexible start & finish times - the best of both worlds.

We've got your back

With a dental plan, life insurance, 24/7 access to a GP, and more.

Hey, Mr Taxman

As an employee owned business, we are able to offer company wide tax free bonuses.

Apply now

Just send us your CV using the form below. If it looks like you might be a good fit, we'll be in touch. It's as simple as that.