Job Opportunities

At Amperative, our values really do drive our decision-making, client selection and staff experience. This is our hit-list:

• We prioritise people, relationships and sustainable working
• We care deeply about what we do
• We collaborate with our clients to arrive at the best outcome
• We bring quality and efficiency in all that we do
• We are evolving continually, by learning and adapting

We focus our attention on organisations and businesses that are seeking to make a positive impact. Working with Amperative often looks like projects with large charities and businesses that are driven by ethics and values, rather than profit.

Dave Perkins

A business with this kind of culture is pretty rare!

Amperative UX Lead

Amperative have given me the freedom to spend quality time with my kids, alongside working with really significant, impactful clients. I'm really grateful to be a part of this bunch. A business with this kind of culture is pretty rare!

Job Description

Amperative are an established digital web company with a 15 year reputation of developing robust, bespoke websites and applications. Their focus is on bespoke development and designing creative solutions for their clients. With a supportive team, calm environment and great location, they can offer a fantastic work opportunity.

Amperative have a full-time vacancy to join their development team, this role will initially involve working on a key project as well as assisting on various other projects as required. Amperative are looking for a motivated person who has the following:

• Enjoys working as a team—pair coding, helping others, and learning together
• Ability to organize own time within project and task requirements
• Good attention to detail with a desire for producing excellent code
• Good understanding of writing robust, readable code
• Appreciation of system design and overall architecture
• Desire to learn and grow skills and knowledge within a team learning context
• Contribute to the team’s best practice in relation to coding principles, standards and methods
• Helping with support of existing sites and applications as needed
• Ability to write requirements specifications (level of detail dependent on scale of project)

Requires the following skills and experience:

• Laravel
• Vue 2
• Typescript
• jQuery
• Tailwind CSS
• Bootstrap 3
• Composer and NPM
• A good understanding of robust database architecture, database optimization and writing of queries in MySQL
• PSR-12 Coding standing
• Experience in using Git / Bitbucket.org
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented principles in PHP
• Good understanding of SOLID principles in PHP
• Methodical approach to troubleshooting and tracking down bugs
• Willingness to work predominantly on a large long running project

Any of the following would be a bonus, but not essential:

• Vue 3
• Deployer.org experience
• Storybook.js.org experience
• Experience in test driven development is advantageous
• Experience and knowledge of using and administering Linux servers
• Experience and knowledge of higher-level concepts such as domain driven development, PHP design patterns, etc
• PhpStorm IDE



Additional Information

Salary

£29-£38k per annum depending on experience

Benefits

• A small but passionate team to work with
• A team culture of continual learning together with regular training sessions on Laravel, refactoring, code fundamentals, VueJs, etc.
• Company contributed pension scheme (following probation period)
• Flexible and hybrid working options
• 34 days holiday (includes bank holidays)
• Company health assistance scheme
• Company paid social events

Please quote REF: AMPFSLD if contacting us about this opportunity