Job Description
Thovex Ltd, founded in 2019, is a software company building Landstack — a Software as a service (SaaS) platform that is aiming to become the digital infrastructure which the land and development industry will use to work more efficiently and effectively. If you are interested in working with a team solving complex problems in order to drastically improve how an industry works, from the bottom up, this might be the role for you.
We are looking for a Full-Stack Web Developer with some industry experience to join our team of developers. Some examples of what you might be involved in:
1- Working with improving connections to our data collection system — a large project built in python running on servers hosted on AWS. This involves improving and maintaining the control system that manages the web scrapers and web crawlers we use to gather information, working with our internal APIs to ensure information is updated efficiently, working with our data team to ensure information is up to standard and building automated solutions to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the data.
2 - Improving the backend infrastructure that the main website and service runs on. This might include a transition to cloud infrastructure or horizontally scaling our servers
3 - Working with our machine learning engineers to integrate AI/ML generative language and image models into the platform.
4 - Building new features into our platform for our users to use. Ranging from speed and efficiency improvements of existing features to completely new additions to the platform. We have a lot we want to build!
An ideal candidate would be within a commutable distance of Cirencester, Gloucestershire and would be able to commit either a full time or a hybrid working schedule. With hybrid being 3 - 4 days in office and 1 - 2 days working remotely from home. Good locations are Cheltenham, Gloucester, Swindon. You would be expected to work 37.5 hours a week. We have core work hours of 10:30 - 3:30, with the rest of the time each week filled in to suit your working preference.
This is a full time position, with 20 days paid holiday a year (excl bank holidays). Salary is £50,000-£55,000 depending on experience.
Essential:
Strong knowledge of Javascript, PHP, HTML, CSS
Good experience with the Laravel framework, preferably with Laravel 5+
Object Oriented based development experience
Desirable:
Comfortable in SSH/terminal access
Linux experience MySQL/Postgresql knowledge
Experience using REST services
Experience in using Sass
Experience using Git/SVC
Basic experience of AWS or similar server management providers.
Useful:
Comfortable with using Mac OS
Experience with GIS and GeoSpatial data
Experience with Google maps javascript API
Experience using Geoserver
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £50,000.00-£55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
COVID-19 considerations:
We have a COVID policy for anyone working in the office.
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Poulton GL7 5JB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- A-Level or equivalent (preferred)
Experience:
- Web development: 4 years (required)
Work Location: In person