King's College London

About us:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Full-Stack Application Developer to join our collaborative development team. This role is central to scaling a successful faculty-level initiative into a University-wide student attendance and engagement platform.

You will play a key role in enhancing an existing Laravel-based application, building new features, and contributing to solutions that directly improve student experience, wellbeing, and engagement across the institution.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a meaningful product that delivers real-world impact by enabling early intervention and support for students.

About the role:

In this role, you will design and create solutions for user stories in PHP using the Laravel framework for education and welfare, as well as tools for our support teams.

Key Responsibilities

•       Design, develop, and enhance features within a Laravel-based web application

•       Contribute to the expansion of an attendance monitoring system into a university-wide solution

•       Translate user stories into scalable, maintainable technical solutions

•       Collaborate in Agile (Scrum) delivery cycles, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives

•       Participate in technical design discussions and whiteboarding sessions

•       Conduct and contribute to code reviews to maintain high engineering standards

•       Work closely with business analysts and stakeholders to clarify requirements and define acceptance criteria

•       Develop and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

•       Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensure quality delivery

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. 

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30th April 2027.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Proven track record of developing in PHP 8.0 or newer, and Laravel 11 – 13
2. Deep understanding of developing on MySQL, MariaDB or AWS Aurora, writing and optimising queries (especially in ANSI SQL)
3. Hands-on experience using Git version control, deployment pipelines, and agile workflows
4. Practical experience writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests, working with a testing team
5. Hands-on experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
6. Demonstrable history of successful projects e.g. GitHub repos or ability to talk in detail
7. Frontend JavaScript development experience in Vue.js (especially the composition API)
8. Frontend CSS development experience in Tailwind CSS, bootstrap
9. Deep understanding of software design principles and best practices

Desirable criteria

1. Computer Science Degree
2. Typescript development experience
3. Python development experience
4. AWS automation experience
5. Experience architecting and managing containers on AWS

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information:

At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension.

We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination. When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King’s guidance.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly, and we recognise its growing role in professional work. Applicants may use AI tools to support preparation of their application, for example to research the role or structure written responses. However, applications must reflect the applicant’s own work and experience. AI tools should not be used during interviews or assessment activities unless this has been agreed in advance as a reasonable adjustment.

We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day.

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