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Junior Web Developer
MIDiA Research, a leading provider of entertainment intelligence, is seeking a Junior Web Developer
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We are looking for a PHP Web Developer, preferably with experience with either Laravel or Symfony, plus JavaScript experience in either React, Vue or Svelte to join our fast-growing team.
MIDiA is a media and entertainment research company with multiple Fortune 500 clients and is established as a leading authority in the digital content marketplace.
With a growing global network, MIDiA’s data and analysis services give clients market insight, deep and immediately useful analysis, comprehensive data and future trends for the digital content marketplace. Our current research practices include Music, Video, Games, Media and Marketing. Our web based products include our client area where our subscribers get access to our reports, our cloud data and charting tool Fuse.
The successful candidate will have web development experience in a commercial role. You will work closely with the management and development teams to refine and expand our existing data analysis tools as well as play a key role in building our new products.
Your role will involve backend development as well as wire-framing, designing and building frontend components.
Roles and Responsibilities
Responsible for assisting with the development of MIDiA’s products and services
Maintain, iterate and expand our data and research products
Monitor, maintain and continually improve our data visualisation tools
Ensure solid functionality and user experience of midiaresearch.com and all its services
Build and maintain documentation, tests and continuous deployment processes
Support our Lead Developer on scoping, testing and problem solving, and work to identify technology solutions to the needs of MIDiA’s business and that of its clients
Technical Requirements
Commercial experience in PHP with Laravel or Symfony
Experience with frontend frameworks preferably React, Vue or Svelte
Extensive knowledge of HTML & CSS
Some experience of SQL and an understanding of structured and unstructured data
Experience with package managers such as Composer, NPM, Yarn or Gulp
Optionally
Experience with the creation of business to business marketing/insight tools, online platforms and dashboards
Experience designing, maintaining and optimising databases or data management beyond SQL in a production/data intensive environment
Experience of Elasticsearch
Experience with GraphQL
About You
Technically proficient with a solid background of building products from the ground up
Strong problem solver with a proactive, hands-on attitude
Great communicator and the ability to explain technical issues clearly
A love for data, and the stories it can tell
Great at scoping and timing projects. You hit deadlines often, but you also know early on if a timeframe is too tight to work with and you’re open about that.
Collaboration drives you. You’re as keen on the product direction as you are on the technical architecture.
Emphasise readability and maintainability in your code
Keen on music, video, media, and/or games
