Careers at Magpie

To apply for any of our current vacancies, please send your CV to edward.genochio@magpiehq.com.

Include a note explaining why you would like to work at Magpie.

Recruiting round 2023

We’re currently recruiting for the following positions:

You are also welcome to send us your CV and cover note speculatively.

Highlights

- - • Opportunity to lead the development of exciting new web applications
  - • A-list global enterprise clients
  - • Freedom to work remotely, or in our office in Solihull, or a balance to suit you
  - • Flexible working hours
  - • Competitive salary commensurate with your experience
  - • Plus profit-share, plus generous benefits

Skills & Experience

Must-have:

- - • At least 5 years commercial experience in a PHP/Laravel/MySQL environment
  - • Proven ability to design, build and deliver complex web applications to enterprise clients
  - • Fluent git skills
  - • Some knowledge of front-end JS frameworks, ideally Vue.js
  - • Excellent communication and team-working skills
  - • A thorough understanding of the principles of Clean Code

Nice-to-have:

- - • Working with very large data-sets
  - • ElasticSearch (or other document-based database systems)
  - • Web-scraping technologies & strategies
  - • Docker
  - • Puppeteer
  - • Nginx / Apache / Linux administration
  - • AWS (including EC2, S3, RDS, ElasticBeanstalk)
  - • Other programming languages
  - • Foreign language skills – especially reading ability in Spanish & other European languages, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, or Japanese.

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Who we are

- - • Magpie Technology, part of the Stickee Technology group
  - • Approx 100 employees
  - • In business since 2012
  - • Offices in Solihull and Boston; operating in 30 countries worldwide
  - • We build innovative software products for big-name clients

What we offer

- - • Competitive salary commensurate with your experience…
  - • …plus generous annual profit share scheme
  - • Freedom to work remotely, or in the office, or a balance to suit you
  - • Flexible hours
  - • Challenging and stimulating work, with great opportunities for career advancement…
  - • …including opportunities to initiate your own projects and build teams around them
  - • 25 days annual leave, plus one more each year, plus the ability to “buy” or “sell” extra days
  - • Close knit & friendly dev team, with a strong learning/teaching/mentoring ethos
  - • Chance to work closely with some of the world’s leading companies
  - • A rare opportunity to work in an “entrepreneurial dev” environment
  - • Company pension scheme
  - • Gym / sports / extra-curricular-activity membership
  - • Training budget

What you will be responsible for

- - • Leading the design & development of new and existing software products
  - • Delivery of high-quality code
  - • Helping the team build, test and release cool things faster, better and smarter.
  - • Communicating clearly and constructively with dev team colleagues and project stakeholders
  - • Peer-reviewing your fellow developers’ work
  - • Contributing to the evolution of our tech stack

People who thrive at Magpie usually have:

- - • A can-do, problem-solving attitude
  - • An entrepreneurial approach
  - • An instinct for seeing software from the end-user’s perspective
  - • A desire to get deep inside the industries we work in
  - • A love of the “craft” of software development
  - • A passion for staying up-to-date with current development trends
  - • A reasonably good sense of humour
  - • To apply for this role, please contact edward.genochio@magpiehq.com

Highlights

- - • Opportunity to play a leading role in the development of exciting new web applications
  - • A-list global enterprise clients
  - • Freedom to work remotely, or in our office in Solihull, or a balance to suit you
  - • Flexible working hours
  - • Competitive salary commensurate with your experience
  - • Plus profit-share, plus generous benefits

Skills & Experience

Must-have:

- - • At least 2 years commercial experience in a PHP/Laravel/MySQL environment
  - • Proven ability to develop complex web applications
  - • Strong git skills
  - • Some knowledge of front-end JS frameworks, ideally Vue.js
  - • Excellent communication and team-working skills
  - • A good understanding of the principles of Clean Code

Nice-to-have:

- - • Working with very large data-sets
  - • ElasticSearch (or other document-based database systems)
  - • Web-scraping technologies & strategies
  - • Docker
  - • Puppeteer
  - • Nginx / Apache / Linux administration
  - • AWS (including EC2, S3, RDS, ElasticBeanstalk)
  - • Other programming languages
  - • Foreign language skills – especially reading ability in Spanish & other European languages, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, or Japanese.

Back to top

Who we are

- - • Magpie Technology, part of the Stickee Technology group
  - • Approx 100 employees
  - • In business since 2012
  - • Offices in Solihull and Boston; operating in 30 countries worldwide
  - • We build innovative software products for big-name clients

What we offer

- - • Competitive salary commensurate with your experience…
  - • …plus generous annual profit share scheme
  - • Freedom to work remotely, or in the office, or a balance to suit you
  - • Flexible hours
  - • Challenging and stimulating work, with great opportunities for career advancement
  - • 25 days annual leave, plus one more each year, plus the ability to “buy” or “sell” extra days
  - • Close knit & friendly dev team, with a strong learning/teaching/mentoring ethos
  - • Chance to work closely with some of the world’s leading companies
  - • A rare opportunity to work in an “entrepreneurial dev” environment
  - • Company pension scheme
  - • Gym / sports / extra-curricular-activity membership
  - • Training budget

What you will be responsible for

- - • Developing and maintaining new and existing software products
  - • Delivery of high-quality code
  - • Helping the team build, test and release cool things faster, better and smarter.
  - • Communicating clearly and constructively with dev team colleagues and project stakeholders

People who thrive at Magpie usually have:

- - • A can-do, problem-solving attitude
  - • An entrepreneurial approach
  - • An instinct for seeing software from the end-user’s perspective
  - • A desire to get deep inside the industries we work in
  - • A love of the “craft” of software development
  - • A passion for staying up-to-date with current development trends
  - • A reasonably good sense of humour

To apply for this role, please contact edward.genochio@magpiehq.com

Your job will require you to verify data from a number of different sources, checking it for completeness and accuracy.

You will need to make quick and well-judged decisions about the validity of the data, and communicate your findings clearly and concisely to other team members.

Highlights

- • Get involved in the delivery of exciting products for “A-list” enterprise clients
- • Freedom to work remotely, or (when we re-open) in our office in Solihull, or a balance to suit you
- • Flexible working hours
- • Competitive salary commensurate with your experience
- • Plus profit-share, plus generous benefits

Skills & Experience

Must-have:

- - • Strong attention to detail and accuracy
  - • Fast, advanced Googling and web-browser skills
  - • Highly numerate!
  - • Fast-learning
  - • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in written and spoken English

Some experience of any of the following will be an advantage:

- - • Foreign languages – especially reading ability in Spanish & other European languages, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, or Japanese.
  - • Online retail / e-commerce
  - • Mobile phone industry
  - • Basic understanding of software development / coding
  - • Project management tools like Trello, Jira or Clubhouse

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Who we are

- - • Magpie Technology, part of the Stickee Technology group
  - • Approx 100 employees
  - • In business since 2012
  - • Offices in Solihull and Boston; operating in 30 countries worldwide
  - • We build innovative software products for big-name clients

What we offer

- - • Competitive salary commensurate with your experience…
  - • …plus generous annual profit share scheme
  - • Freedom to work remotely, or in the office, or a balance to suit you
  - • Flexible hours
  - • Challenging and stimulating work, with great opportunities for career advancement
  - • 25 days annual leave, plus one more each year, plus the ability to “buy” or “sell” extra days
  - • Close knit & friendly team, with a strong learning/teaching/mentoring ethos
  - • Chance to work closely with some of the world’s leading companies
  - • Company pension scheme
  - • Gym / sports / extra-curricular-activity membership

What you will be responsible for

- - • Verifying data for accuracy and completeness
  - • Reporting errors clearly to other team members
  - • Using web-based tools to categorise information
  - • Other data-validation tasks from time to time

People who thrive at Magpie usually have

- - • A can-do, problem-solving attitude
  - • An entrepreneurial approach
  - • An instinct for our products and services from the end-user’s perspective
  - • A desire to get deep inside the industries we work in
  - • A reasonably good sense of humour
  - • To apply for this role, please contact edward.genochio@magpiehq.com

Careers at Magpie

Recruiting round 2023

Senior PHP software developer

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Skills & Experience

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Nice-to-have:

Who we are

What we offer

What you will be responsible for

People who thrive at Magpie usually have:

Mid-level PHP software developer

Highlights

Skills & Experience

Must-have:

Nice-to-have:

Who we are

What we offer

What you will be responsible for

People who thrive at Magpie usually have:

Data Quality Analyst

Highlights

Skills & Experience

Must-have:

Some experience of any of the following will be an advantage:

Who we are

What we offer

What you will be responsible for

People who thrive at Magpie usually have