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[Simpleweb](https://simpleweb.co.uk/) has an opportunity for an experienced badass lead back-end developer to join our team of coders, creatives and entrepreneurs โ working with businesses that put people before profit.\n\n**Weโre looking for an individual who:**\n\n* Is confident in communicating with clients in writing and face to face (virtually or in person covid permitting)\n* Has excellent engineering and problem solving skills\n* Has an exceptional understanding of the web and its protocols\n* Has a great understanding of databases\n* Is exceptional in at least one of the following: PHP, Python or Ruby\n* Has a good understanding of various server technologies such as AWS, Ansible, Docker\n* The desire to learn new languages and skills\n* A proven development experience\n* Has the ability to demonstrate passion and initiative\n\n**Bonus points:**\n\nAdditional experience, areas of expertise or even a keen interest of the following would be massively beneficial to your application.\n\n* Elasticsearch\n* dApps/blockchain\n* ML/Neural nets\n* React and React Native\n* Node\n* HTML/CSS/SaSS/etc\n* Modern JavaScript\n\n**About us:**\n\nWe build and invest in brilliant startups, working on projects with real purpose that change peoples lives for the better. For you this will mean working with talented and passionate people; influencing both the design and function of products that have huge positive potential for both people and planet.\n\nYou can see some of our investments and projects on the [Simpleweb Portfolio page](https://simpleweb.co.uk/portfolio/).\n\nWe love nothing more than to nurture talent and respect that different brains work in different ways. That said, youโll regularly find us experimenting with new ways of doing things and our ears will always prick up at your ideas, big or small.\n\nYouโll find that the team has some wide-ranging personal interests too so, when weโre not geeking out about tech and design, weโre never short of mind-expanding topics to mull over. We also love to organise regular hack-nights for the wider dev community and have been known to take our team off on exciting trips (both locally in Bristol and abroad)! COVID has curtailed these activities but weโll be starting them again once itโs safe to do so.\n\nDonโt take our word for it โ last year we were awarded the accolade of [Employer of the Year](https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/business/bristol-company-been-named-best-2540235) by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) for our commitment to team culture and personal development.\n\nCome and build the future with us.\n\n**Benefits and Perks:**\n\n* Fair salary reflecting experience\n* Team socials\n* Very competitive pension\n* Your religious holidays respected\n* Private medical insurance\n* Shared parental leave & pay policy\n* Personal development / conference budget\n* 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)\n\nRemote working and flexible hours (IRL community is a big deal to us so, when you feel itโs safe, weโd like to see you in the office at least once a month ideally) \n\nPlease mention the words **SUNNY BAR BIRD** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMjE4LjEyOS4xMDA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, PHP, Python, Node, Ruby, Backend, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad and Medical jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $120,000/year\n
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\n\n#Location\nUK
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