Careers: Join The Total Merchandise Team

Total Merchandise is one of the UK’s leading distributors of branded promotional products. Total Merchandise operates in a highly competitive and fast-moving market. An industry trend setter, Total Merchandise develops leading technologies to compete as one of the market leaders. Due to this continued success, we are looking to recruit a back-end software engineer to join our existing software development team.

This role will see the successful candidate joining a a team of strong senior and mid-level developers working on the bleeding edge of software innovation. You will be responsible for developing the core systems that are empowering Total Merchandise to innovate and retain its position at the top of its industry.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving business problems and comfortable with working alongside others to develop industry-leading, powerful, and maintainable solutions. The successful candidate will be working closely with directors, marketing teams, and sales staff to improve the efficiency of day-to-day operations and processes.

In this role, candidates will also have the ability to work in all areas of the software development cycle, this includes working with React apps, AWS infrastructure, networking, UX design, and taking leadership of internal projects.

The successful candidate will be well-versed in back-end web development fundamentals and would be familiar in developing bespoke back-end software applications in PHP or Node.js.  This position is not suitable for those that only have experience in developing brochure or themes/plugins for CMS powered sites.

The most successful candidates will have experience with a major back-end web development framework such as Symfony, Laravel, CodeIgniter, NestJS, Meteor.js, or Express. In addition, the ideal candidate will always be looking for new ways to develop and refine their skills

A company MacBook and many opportunities personal development and advancement will be offered as the business continues to grow year-on-year.

Essential for this role:

• Strong experience with PHP or Node.js
• Experience with MySQL (or equivalent)
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Ability to learn quickly, possessing a strong enthusiasm for technology

Desirable for this role:

• Experience with Symfony or Laravel
• Strong experience with front-end tooling (SASS, gulp.js, npm, Yarn)
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Experience with Docker, containerisation, or virtualisation
• A history of leadership

Person specification

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to join our business, which offers a professional and vibrant company culture in our modern offices in North Essex.

Joining a fast-moving team, you’ll need to be a team player who can also work well independently. Liaising with our directors and other teams across the company means strong communication skills are essential, as are an analytical mindset and a passion for your work.

With a variety of exciting projects on the go at any given time, the ideal candidate will be able to prioritise effectively, demonstrate a ‘can do’ attitude at all times and work well under pressure.

Application

To apply for this role please email your CV and a cover letter to will@totalmerchandise.co.uk.

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