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by Stuart Mills

We’re hiring

Job Vacancy: Senior PHP Full Stack Developer

Located in our lovely office in Newcastle city centre, useyourlocal is the UK’s leading digital platform for pubs & bars.

With over 50,000 pubs listed on the site and some half a million visitors every month, we provide a digital platform that connects brands, pubs and consumers through the notification of news, offers and events. We also provide and manage high-quality website templates for pubs, helping them to maximise their digital marketing activities and ultimately getting more people to go to the pub more often.

We are looking for a senior developer to lead the development of the individual products within the useyourlocal platform.

Responsibilities

  • Development of new functionality on the platform
  • Improving & maintaining existing functionality
  • Advise management on appropriate technical solutions to business challenges

Required skills

  • Modern, performant, object-oriented PHP
  • HTML – semantic and accessible markup
  • CSS – including modern layout with Grid & Flexbox
  • MySQL – creating and updating performant queries and setting up new data structures
  • JavaScript – client side, both vanilla & jQuery
  • Version control – ideally Git
  • Strong understanding of how to build secure web apps
  • Domains & DNS configuration

Desirable skills

  • Amazon S3
  • Basic understanding of other AWS products such as ElastiCache, EC2 and RDS
  • An eye for design and a familiarity with industry standard design software

Bonus skills (things we use that we don’t expect you to know, but would be great if you did)

  • Sphinx search
  • Vue.js
  • Docker
  • Basic Nginx configuration

What it’s like to work at useyourlocal HQ?

We’re a small but perfectly-formed team and we all share, and live by, the same values: we’re driven to succeed, incredibly tenacious, pragmatic by choice, creative by nature and highly convivial.

What’s more we all love pubs – so if the thought of working on, talking about and visiting the nation’s hostelries leaves you cold, or you prefer a quiet, library-style atmosphere, this probably isn’t the job for you.

  • Place of work: Newcastle city centre – any split between office and home working can be agreed.
  • Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm, and occasionally as required outside these hours (although we are a modern employer that isn’t ruled by the clock)
  • Holiday allowance: 25 days pa (plus statutory Bank Holidays)
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Friendly and flexible working environment
  • Pay & rations: £35-45k depending on experience

Interested?

Then drop us a line, telling us why you think you’re the perfect fit for the role and attaching your CV. Send it to [email protected] and we’ll take it from there.

Cheers!

by Stuart Mills

We’re Hiring

Located in our lovely new office in Newcastle city centre, useyourlocal.com is the UK’s leading pub and bar website.

With over 50,000 pubs listed on the site and some half a million visitors every month, we provide a digital platform that connects brands, pubs and consumers through the notification of news, offers and events. We also provide and manage high-quality website templates for pubs, helping them to maximise their digital marketing activities and ultimately getting more people to go to the pub more often.

We are growing fast and have big ambitions: we want to become the ‘Rightmove’ of the pub & bar industry, a digital platform that is also a recognised consumer brand.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a Call Advisor who will support our growth by providing customer care and digital marketing support to publicans and bar staff, assisting in web page set up, population of websites, regular updating and refreshing of their news, events and offers, and resolution of their general queries.

You will need to be a confident, outgoing personality with an excellent telephone manner and communication skills; somebody who can provide assistance to clients, but who can also identify opportunities for them to expand their business through our digital platform and the use of social media.

You should be somebody who enjoys working in teams, likes solving problems and taking the initiative, and can work well with minimal supervision (we don’t do micro-management). You need to be IT and social media literate, a good administrator, and have a strong commitment to customer service.

That said, we’re not necessarily looking for somebody with lots of formal qualifications, although some experience of customer service roles would be an advantage.

What it’s like to work at useyourlocal HQ

We’re a small but perfectly-formed team and we all share, and live by, the same values: we’re driven to succeed, incredibly tenacious, pragmatic by choice, creative by nature and highly convivial.

What’s more we all love pubs – so if the thought of working on, talking about and visiting the nation’s hostelries leaves you cold, or you prefer a quiet, library-style atmosphere, this probably isn’t the job for you.

Place of work: Newcastle city centre

Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm, and occasionally as required outside these hours (we can be flexible on hours for the right person)

Holiday allowance: 25 days pa (plus statutory Bank Holidays)

Pay & rations: competitive, with bonus and profit-share schemes

Interested?

Then drop us a line, telling us why you think you’re the perfect fit for the role and attaching your CV. Send it to [email protected] and we’ll take it from there.

Cheers!

by Stuart Mills

We’re Hiring

Know of anybody that loves pubs and has some experience of the hospitality sector? We’re looking to recruit an Account Manager to help drive sales of our templated websites and associated useyourlocal.com services. Pay and rations are competitive and they get to base themselves in our small but perfectly formed Newcastle office, where the drinks and chat flow freely. Just like down the pub.

For more details contact [email protected]useyourlocal.com, or reply to this message.

by Stuart Mills

Could you be our new Call Advisor?

Located in our lovely new office in Newcastle city centre, useyourlocal.com is the UK’s leading pub and bar website.

With over 70,000 pubs listed on the site and some half a million visitors every month, we provide a digital platform that connects brands, pubs and consumers through the notification of news, offers and events. We also provide and manage high-quality website templates for pubs, helping them to maximise their digital marketing activities and ultimately getting more people to go to the pub more often.

We are growing fast and have big ambitions: we want to become the ‘JustEat’ of the pub & bar industry, a digital platform that is also a recognised consumer brand.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a Call Advisor who will support our growth by providing customer care and digital marketing support to publicans and bar staff, assisting in web page set up, population of websites, regular updating and refreshing of their news, events and offers, and resolution of their general queries.

You will need to be a confident, outgoing personality with an excellent telephone manner and communication skills; somebody who can provide assistance to clients, but who can also identify opportunities for them to expand their business through our digital platform and the use of social media.

You should be somebody who enjoys working in teams, likes solving problems and taking the initiative, and can work well with minimal supervision (we don’t do micro-management). You need to be IT and social media literate, a good administrator, and have a strong commitment to customer service.

That said, we’re not necessarily looking for somebody with lots of formal qualifications, although some experience of customer service roles would be an advantage.

What it’s like to work at useyourlocal HQ

We’re a small but perfectly-formed team and we all share, and live by, the same values: we’re driven to succeed, incredibly tenacious, pragmatic by choice, creative by nature and highly convivial.

What’s more we all love pubs – so if the thought of working on, talking about and visiting the nation’s hostelries leaves you cold, or you prefer a quiet, library-style atmosphere, this probably isn’t the job for you.

Place of work: Newcastle city centre

Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm, and occasionally as required outside these hours (we can be flexible on hours for the right person)

Holiday allowance: 25 days pa (plus statutory Bank Holidays)

Pay & rations: competitive, with bonus and profit-share schemes

Interested?

Then drop us a line, telling us why you think you’re the perfect fit for the role and attaching your CV. Send it to [email protected] and we’ll take it from there.

Cheers!