Software Developer

About BizClik Media

BizClik Media is a global leader in B2B digital publishing, media and events. As the creator of award-winning business platforms and experiences, we operate across high-growth areas including sustainability, procurement, fintech and emerging technology. Our events, Sustainability LIVE, Procurement and Supply Chain LIVE, AI LIVE and many others, bring together the most influential C-suite leaders, visionaries and change makers for unmatched content, networking and commercial opportunity.

With a fast-growing global audience, prestigious media brands and an ever-expanding portfolio of market-leading events, we are shaping the future of business conversations – and we are just getting started.

You'll be working in the technology department: a small group (5-6) working on the code that delivers our 20+ news and events websites. This role will involve working on bug fixes, features, integrating with 3rd parties and other business priorities such as improvements to our Content Management System product.

Why this team?

• We're a small, fast adapting and self-managed team with a lot of freedom to suggest, experiment, and improve parts of our system without the bureaucracy.
• Your contributions will have a direct impact on the experience of millions of users.
• We invest in our people to grow in their careers and skills.
• We use modern technologies and best practices to build performant, scalable applications.
• Your input matters - we listen to ideas and suggestions from all team members.

What you'll be doing:

• Bringing our customer experience vision to life
• Implementing new features with performance/accessibility in mind
• Debugging and diagnosing issues
• Collaborating with engineers and non-technical team members
• Assisting in scoping and defining requirements for new features
• Sharing your knowledge with the wider team

Tech Stack:

• PHP - Laravel (Livewire/Filament)
• Typescript - React/Vue
• Redis
• MongoDB/PostgreSQL
• Docker
• Git/GitHub
• TailwindCSS

Who you are:

• Proficient in modern web technologies across the full stack
• Experience with Laravel and its features (eloquent ORM, queues, events, form requests, api resources, etc.)
• You pride yourself on writing clean, maintainable code
• Experience with testing frameworks and writing automated tests (PHPUnit, Pest, Vitest, etc.)
• Good understanding of APIs and client-server communication
• Knowledgeable and passionate about building performant, scalable applications
• Strongly committed to best practices including accessibility, security, and code quality
• Well-organized and capable of managing your own workload
• Confident in using developer tools such as package managers, CLI commands, database GUIs, Git etc.
• Familiar with databases and data modeling (we use MongoDB and migrating to PostgreSQL)
• Able to implement time- and fault-tolerant features that other developers can easily build upon
• Understanding of performance optimization across the entire application stack
• Skilled at learning and improving large legacy systems

Bonus requirements:

• Experience with third-party services like
• Previous experience working with news/commercial content management systems
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud - we use Northflank)

Benefits:

Company events

• 20 days holiday (increasing with service) + bank holidays + your birthday off + Christmas shutdown
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Free parking
• Gym membership
• Referral programme
• Company laptop
• Work from home (1 day per week)
• Training and mentorship available

Interview Process:

1. Initial screening video call (15 minutes)
2. Debugging exercise (1 hour)
3. Final interview with senior management minutes)
4. Reference checks and offer.