JOB OPPORTUNITY : Full-Stack Developer
Do you like solving problems and have the tenacity to overcome any difficulties
put in your path? You could be just the person we’re looking for.
Nexus Point is currently seeking to expand its team with an additional Full-Stack
Developer to help us to maintain, update and build websites using our
preferred framework, Laravel.
You will be a valuable member of our client services team working on new features
and changes and the occasional bug.
Who is Nexus Point?
Over the last 14 years, we’ve established our position as a market leader in the
automotive software and web development sector by consistently creating powerful
software solutions that deliver a competitive and innovative advantage for our
customers.
Our office environment is fun and we play as hard as we work. We’re looking for an
enthusiastic developer who’ll fit into our dedicated team, working on exciting projects
for our growing client base.
Who we’re looking for
● You’ll be an innovator who aspires to be the best whilst conceptualising and
creating the architecture of a project.
● You’ll adore writing code and be committed to helping your product owner
achieve their ideals.
● You’ll enjoy creating web solutions whilst collaborating with your team
members.
● Our systems need to be visually appealing for all users, efficient, robust and
accurate. They also need to be easy to maintain and upgrade with new
features.
Responsibilities will include
● Using your experience building commercial web applications using the
Laravel framework, [Link],[Link] and REST APIs.
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● Provide professional support to clients by delivering reliable solutions and
developing client relationships.
● Play an integral part in designing and building a large volume SaaS solution
within the Auto industry.
● Product Development - Continuous Delivery (CD/CI).
● R&D: Research new technologies, bringing forward ideas that can take Nexus
Point to the next level within the Auto sector using technology.
● Write unit and functional test cases.
● Design and work with relational SQL databases.
● Requirement gathering and solutions analysis.
Required skills & abilities
● Proficiency in coding Responsive Web applications using:
○ Laravel or; Symfony / similar modern MVC framework
○ Eloquent (ORM)
○ Dependency management (Composer)
○ PHP 7.1 with a solid knowledge of OOP methodologies
○ HTML5
○ CSS3 (SASS)
○ Javascript
○ Responsive frontend framework
○ GIT version control.
● Preferred experience in leveraging CMS platforms, including WordPress.
● Ability to troubleshoot and resolve cross-platform/browser issues,
performance optimization, and other aspects of managing web server
platforms.
● Familiarity with Responsive Web Design, semantic markup, Open Graph
Protocol and other mobile and social oriented technologies is desirable.
It would also be an advantage if you have working knowledge of:
● MySQL 5.7
● VueJS v2 / Nuxt (or similar i.e. Angular)
● SSH/FTP/S3/HTTP(S)
● Web Services: XML, JSON, AJAX
● MySQL (or similar relational database)
● Docker
● AWS
● SCSS
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We use the following products, but are not limited to
● PHPStorm
● Sublime Text
● VS Code
● GitHub
● Jira
● Figma