Rebellion Developments, a leading independent media and games company, are seeking motivated PHP Web Developers at all levels of experience. You will be expected to contribute to design processes, share ideas with the team, produce high quality code and maintain existing and legacy code.

For this Experienced role, we are looking for a minimum 2 years of professional experience and strong performance in our pre-interview test (if you have some experience but much less than 2 years then do check out our Junior PHP Developer role instead).

A strong academic background is also preferred, with a degree in computing, science, mathematics or similar or equivalent industry experience. Games industry experience is not required as this is not a games-development role.

This role is full-time, based in-house at our Oxford headquarters. We can consider permanent or in-house contract employment but not freelance or agencies. You must be able to legally work in the UK.

You will be joining an existing internal web development team to

Participate in the design and implementation of PHP websites, applications and services
Maintain and improve legacy code
Create and maintain new reusable company code libraries
Work to deadlines whilst maintaining a high quality of coding, adhering to company coding standards and guidelines
Communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders

Essential

Requirements

Excellent PHP, MySQL and problem-solving skills
Knowledge and experience of OOP and MVC frameworks (ideally Laravel)
High self-motivation and initiative- taking
Good knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript (including jQuery)
Good communication and team-working skills
Familiarity with use of IDEs, debugging, logging, automated testing (PHPUnit, TDD), and version control systems (Git, Perforce, SVN)
Basic knowledge of linux OS and command line tools

Non-essential but desirable

Good knowledge of network protocols
Linux server administration experience
Experience of Agile development methods (Scrum, Kanban, DSDM)
Experience working with and implementing 3rd party APIs (eg. Facebook)
Front-end design flair

Benefits

Holidays 25 days paid annual leave plus all bank holidays (33 days total)
Relocation reasonable pre-agreed costs eg belongings, transport, non-refundable agency fees, etc
Pension contributory pension scheme where company matches 4%, salary sacrifice so saves on tax & NI
Cycle Scheme spread bike payments over 12 months, salary sacrifice so saves on tax & NI
Eye Test Vouchers free eye tests and additional discounts on glasses/contact lenses
Introduction bonus £2k for internal staff referrals that lead to hires
Loans Up to £1k interest free personal loans
Free Stuff fresh fruit, Rebellion Steam titles, GDC Vault access, digital 2000AD/Solaris/Abaddon/Ravenstone copies, game and film library
Discounts 50% off most 2000AD merchandise, discounted membership at The Athlete Centre gym 200 metres from Oxford studio
Culture friendly, creative and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and recognition of the importance of work-life balance
Social annual company events (Summer BBQ & Christmas Party), various ad-hoc events and out-of-hours social groups such as photography, board games, football, baking, etc

Oxford Location local pub, M&S and Waitrose, 5 minute walk to train station and 15 minute walk to city centre
Hours flexible start and finish times (core hours 10am-4pm with 7.5 working hours overall plus 1 hour for lunch