An ability to keep a fleet of Laravel applications and AWS accounts up to date

An ability to push the boundaries around automated testing

Wubbleyou is a software development company based in Newcastle upon Tyne, building scalable software which empowers customer growth, automation and efficiency. We develop software for both scale-ups and public sector, normally for something which hasn’t been done before.

In this role you will be working on projects for clients like the Department for Education, UK Research institution and North Tyneside Council, amongst many other scaling businesses.

We are scaling quickly, and we are looking for people who will be ready to fill potential new positions as they become available in the future.  For this reason, we’re looking to work with someone who has ambitions to work towards increasing their skillset.

We need someone who has as an ability to reactively solves support desk bugs and proactively, maintain complex software projects and infrastructure.

Our ideal candidate will also have a passion for producing superior software solutions and the in-built ability to spot, agitate and solve problems quickly with a solution focused approach.

You will be empowered to taking ownership long term support and maintenance of custom software development projects. Our ideal candidate will have experience of building effective functional and unit tests, and automating this with CI. 

You will also ideally have experience with AWS, Vagrant, Terminal and Unix. Importantly, we value personal/professional growth and learning, and we value the ambition to grow with the business.

PHP/MySQL development using Laravel and Yii2

API integrations with other platforms such as Facebook and Google

Developing our existing toolkits to make the development team more effective

Be able to manage your own time and communicate with clients

Hit SLA targets and react in a time efficient manner

Desirable: Knowledge of Terraform and deployment into Amazon Web Services using Continuous Delivery, into autoscaling and self-healing clusters, utilising other services such as Redis, Elasticsearch and SQS

You will be empowered to have a problem solving mindset with a strong attention to detail, maintain platform stability and proactively solve technical issues

Work collaboratively with other team members to review code, plan solutions and solve problems

Maintaining, upgrading and improving the applications we build

Working on frontend applications to deliver the best user experience in a highly scalable way, covering phone apps and web apps.

An ability to work with clients to turn their thoughts into technical solutions

A real knack for design, as well as development

THROUGH BUSINESS GROWTH, WUBBLEYOU ARE LOOKING FOR ANALYTICAL AND SOLUTION FOCUSSED REACTJS DEVELOPERS TO WORK ON DEVELOPMENT OF ‘NEVER DONE BEFORE’ SOFTWARE PROJECTS. 

Wubbleyou is a software development company based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, building scalable software which empowers customer growth, automation and efficiency.  We develop software for both scaleups and public sector, normally for something which hasn’t been done before.

In this role you will be working on projects for clients like the Department for Education, Northumbria University, Southampton University and North Tyneside Council, amongst many others scaling businesses.

Using agile methods you will be involved in all stages of development and have a passion and drive for producing solutions that have superior quality and user experience. You will be empowered to have a problem solving mindset with a strong attention to detail, and a focus on automating processes to develop systems that add value to our client’s businesses.

With a background in agile, you will be delivery focused with a commitment to understanding and delivering what our clients really value, building software that is fit for purpose, whilst also continuously learning new technologies to advance our solutions. 

What does the ReactJS Developer role look like at a top level? 

 Experience with ReactJS using Typescript and Redux

API integrations with external platforms
Good working knowledge of HTML5 & CSS (Less/Sass

Technical research during project planning, and finding ways to deliver more value

Developing our Continuous Integration toolkits to automate in house testing

Working with us to find ways to make yours, ours and our client’s lives easier

Ultimately, leveraging your skillset to make people’s live easier and better through automation

What does the right person mean to us?  

We are scaling quickly, and we are looking for people who will be ready to fill potential new positions as they become available in the future.  For this reason, we’re looking to work with someone who has ambitions to work towards increasing their skillset and achieving more senior development roles/skillsets in the future.

Our ideal candidate will also have a passion for producing superior software solutions and the in-built ability to spot, agitate and solve problems quickly with a solution focused approach. 

You will be empowered to taking ownership of software development projects from start to finish, have experience building scalable code and your understanding of different methodologies will enable us to create the right solution for our clients, every time. 

Our ideal candidate will have experience of building effective function and unit tests, and automating this with CI. You will also ideally have experience with AWS, Vagrant, Terminal & Unix.

Importantly, we value personal/professional growth and learning, and we value this have ambition to grow with the business. 

Salary range: £22k - £46k based on experience.

33 days holiday (25 days + bank holidays)

Remote First: Business space for collaboration, not pointless congregation

Flexible Hours: Start your day between 8am – 10am

Learners are Earners: Protected time to learn and upskill, unlocking higher salary bands

Social Events: Friday beers, Skribbl and drawings that affirm why we never went into design

Hardware: Equipped to work from home, or the office

Shape the Business: We set objectives as a team, to achieve the overall mission

Shape your Future: We aim to offer solid progression opportunities

Mutual Commitment: Help us understand what you want to achieve, and we’ll work with you to empower it

Initial Chat: Informal chat just to mutually understand what we both have to offer, and what we all want – if we agree there is a fit, we move forward

Interview: A more structured interview, with an opportunity for us all to ask open questions and assess fit against skillset and values

Follow up Call: A conversation which allows us to mutually understand the sort of work we might undertake, and how suitable you find this

Feedback & Decision: Hopefully this is us offering, and yourself accepting! But in any case, we’ll provide a decision and feedback should you like it

If you are excited about this opportunity, feel you have the right skills, and want to join an ambitious and growth focused company, we would love to hear from you. 

Please send us a copy of your CV and some insight into your career aspirations to careers@wubbleyou.co.uk

Experience with ReactJS using Typescript and Redux

Good working knowledge of HTML5 & CSS (Less/Sass)

You will be empowered to have a problem solving mindset, with the right tools to create excellent user interfaces and experiences with our clients

Work collaboratively with other team members, to review code, plan solutions and solve problems.

Maintaining, testing and documenting the applications we build

Working closely with clients and our team to keep projects on track and in budget, and working internally to continuously improve process.

Business analyst experience, capable of understanding the typical challenges of a scaleup business

Account management experience, with the ability to nurture account growth through value delivery to the clients

Change management experience, working with the clients to support a longer term digital transformation

THROUGH BUSINESS GROWTH, WUBBLEYOU ARE LOOKING FOR PROACTIVE AND SELF MOTIVATED PROJECT MANAGERS TO LEAD EXCITING ‘NEVER DONE BEFORE’ SOFTWARE PROJECTS. 

Working closely with clients, and our internal team towards a collective goal, your role as Project Manager will be to ensure project delivery is on time and work is completed to the highest standard. You will be able to combine a detail focus with a big picture vision in order to track project status throughout a product life-cycle allowing for successful code releases as work progresses through our continuous development on projects.

With a background in agile and the ability to deliver MVPs following the lean methodology, our ideal candidate will be able to ensure we’re able to deliver the maximum impact with the least resource possible. You will also be creative in your thinking and have the ability to continuously improve our Project Management processes. 

Looking beyond Project Management, and towards Operations?

We are scaling quickly, and we are looking for someone who is open to learning more about the following areas – there is an opportunity to receive training in these areas throughout your time here to expand your knowledge for your next role:

This will be an incremental training, with coaching provided.

What does the role look like at a top level?  

Creating project sprint plans for with developers and organising/attending agile ceremonies throughout each cycle.

Ensuring change control is strictly followed in line with company policies and procedures on all projects.

Creation of reports for clients ensuring all work is produced on budget, with the highest quality standards met.

Comfortable working with (and reporting on) KPI’s linked to project profitability, efficiency and developer utilisation levels. 

Capable of driving continuous (and demonstrable) improvement in these areas and taking a highly proactive approach to generate new ideas, strategies and actions that achieve this. 

Help to create, document and implement key processes in this area to improve and strengthen project management and introduce best practices.  

Build a culture where these processes become ingrained in daily activity, behaviour and become widely adopted and adhered to.  
Post-project support for clients, maintaining relationships and allowing for further development sprint cycles to be planned with effective client request management.

Reporting to senior management any project issues, and provide solution management to maintain excellent client relationships.

Spot opportunities for our clients and ways to improve.

You will be a proactive individual who has an analytical mind and the ability to anticipate problems before they arise. You will have a track record in managing software development projects from start to finish, and your organised, planned approach, alongside a fast working pace ensures you keep projects moving forwards at the right pace, and in the right direction. 

You will have an innate ability to build strong connections and engaged customer relationships and be skilled at navigating clients through a project lifecycle to achieve collective goals. A passion for learning, you will be constantly looking for new ways to improve our current processes. 

Our ideal candidate will also have had previous experience in software development project management, have used Jira / Service Desk software and have a strong working knowledge of agile & scrum methodologies. Previous experience applying lean methodologies would also be beneficial.

Importantly, have ambition to grow with the business. 

TBD - Salary range to be published when role activated, 

You will be a proactive individual who has an analytical mind and the ability to anticipate problems before they arise. You will have a track record in managing software development projects from start to finish, and your organised, planned approach, alongside a fast working pace ensures you keep projects moving forwards at the right pace, and in the right direction.

You will have an innate ability to build strong connections and engaged customer relationships and be skilled at navigating clients through a project lifecycle to achieve collective goals. A passion for learning, you will be constantly looking for new ways to improve our current processes.

Importantly, have ambition to grow with the business.

Creating project sprint plans for with developers and organising/attending agile ceremonies throughout each cycle

Ensuring change control is strictly followed in line with company policies and procedures on all projects

Creation of reports for clients ensuring all work is produced on budget, with the highest quality standards met

Comfortable working with (and reporting on) KPI’s linked to project profitability, efficiency and developer utilisation levels

Capable of driving continuous (and demonstrable) improvement in these areas and taking a highly proactive approach to generate new ideas, strategies and actions that achieve this

Help to create, document and implement key processes in this area to improve and strengthen project management and introduce best practices

Build a culture where these processes become ingrained in daily activity an behaviour and become widely adopted and adhered to

Post-project support for clients, maintaining relationships and allowing for further development sprint cycles to be planned with effective client request management

Reporting to senior management any project issues, and provide solution management to maintain excellent client relationships

Spot opportunities for our clients and ways to improve

Managing a team of developers to deliver excellence for our clients

Working with clients to identify further mutually valuable opportunities

Delivering highly customised applications in Yii2/Laravel, deployed into a scalable AWS environment.  Automation & Integration is at the heart of this.

A real knack for pen testing, as well as development

THROUGH BUSINESS GROWTH, WUBBLEYOU ARE LOOKING FOR ANALYTICAL AND SOLUTION FOCUSSED PHP DEVELOPERS TO WORK ON DEVELOPMENT OF ‘NEVER DONE BEFORE’ SOFTWARE PROJECTS. 

What does the PHP Developer role look like at a top level? 

 PHP/MySQL development using Laravel & Yii2

Deployment into Amazon Web Services using Continuous Delivery, into auto scaling & self healing clusters, utilising other services such as Redis, Elasticsearch and SQS

You will be empowered to taking ownership of software development projects from start to finish, have experience building scalable code and your understanding of different methodologies will enable us to create the right solution for our clients, every time.

PHP/MySQL development using Laravel & Yii2

You will be empowered to have a problem solving mindset with a strong attention to detail, and use that to build custom platforms, APIs and integrations which solve unique business challenges

Work collaboratively with other team members, to review code, plan solutions and solve problems

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