Back End Developer

Are you excited about the prospect of joining a high-growth start-up that is looking to revolutionise racquet sports and create a genuinely multi-sport, global rating system?

Who we areSquashLevels has established itself as squash’s premier tool for measuring player performance, cementing itself within the day-to-day lives of UK squash players and now, backed by the World Squash Federation, is looking to expand its influence on a more global level and across multiple racquet sports.

We provide an online platform - squashlevels.com - which offers performance measurement, stats and social networking features along the lines of Strava for squash and we’re looking to expand this across the world and across multiple sports.

We are based in Bristol.

We’re looking forWe are looking for an enthusiastic and responsible back end software development professional to join our talented, friendly team and help us develop the next level of functionality that will truly engage and motivate our players around the world. This will be a combination of feature development and the evolution of our platform towards delivering a multi-sport, multi-federation, white label product portfolio.

The successful candidate will be given full training on the existing platform and tools and will enjoy the challenge of researching, planning and guiding our evolution going forward.

The successful candidate will also be included in the wider team for customer support and data management of the site. This puts you close to the customer for real feedback and learning what’s most important to our users as well as a great way to learn the overall platform. There will be the opportunity to develop tools to support this role as well.

Competencies, Education, Training & Experience:A passion for delivering a high quality and engaging experience to our usersClear, clean development styleCreative, problem solving attitude with the ability to break down complex problems into simpler building blocks.Good overall understanding of web based platforms; their architecture, underlying technologies, best practices and performance factorsEstablished back end development experience. Hands-on experience of PHP and Laravel essential, good working knowledge of SQL DBs preferred.Knowledge of Git and GitHub.5+ years of experience in this industry. 3+ years on Laravel and PHP.Related qualifications preferred. We would like to see examples of your own code.Interest and/or participation in racquet sports is preferred though not essential. We do find it makes a big difference in the understanding of our players’ mind-sets.

Company BenefitsWe are a small company but offerRemote and flexible working with semi-regular get-togethers for the team25 days holiday plus public/bank holidays. 28 days holiday after three years.Pension (6% employer contribution)Full training in any areas needed (internal or supported external)For the right, long term candidate, we will be looking to reward with some level of share ownership in due course.

Interview ProcessWe have a few questions around general software development in the web environment that we like our candidates to tackle before inviting for a video interview.

They're not technically challenging but are intended to tease out real development experience as these things are often learned the hard way and we'd really like an insight in your approach and experience in these areas.

We often find the more experienced candidates enjoy answering them as it gives them a chance to express their views and approach in these important areas. We do hope you'll find the same.

The interview itself will be with me, Richard, CTO and hiring manager and will be a one hour video call. This will be an opportunity for us to find out more about you and, most importantly, for you to find out more about us, our vision and whether you'd like to be a part of it.

After that, there will be a follow up call with Jethro, our CSO and the other members of the development team as a 'meet the team' call. Not really an interview but you should have a feel for the team then and worth doing before making any final decisions.

We look forward to meeting you!

Key Skills

• Git
• Laravel
• Mysql
• PHP
• SQL