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.


Senior PHP software developer
Open for applications throughout 2023
Highlights
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- • 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
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Skills & Experience
Must-have:
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- • 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
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Nice-to-have:
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- • 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
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- • 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
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What we offer
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- • 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
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What you will be responsible for
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- • 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
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People who thrive at Magpie usually have:
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- • 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
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Mid-level PHP software developer
Open for applications throughout 2023
Highlights
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- • 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
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Skills & Experience
Must-have:
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- • 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:
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- • 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
- • 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
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What you will be responsible for
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- • 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:
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- • 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
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To apply for this role, please contact edward.genochio@magpiehq.com
Data Quality Analyst
Open for applications throughout 2023
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
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- • 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:
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- • 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
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Some experience of any of the following will be an advantage:
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- • 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
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What you will be responsible for
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- • 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
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People who thrive at Magpie usually have
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- • 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
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