Junior Developer

At Business Comparison (part of the Bionic group), we're making life easier for UK businesses by helping them find better deals on the products and services they need, from energy and broadband to finance and insurance. As part of the Bionic Group, we're combining the agility of a growing tech business with the support and investment of a larger organisation. 

We're looking for a Junior Developer who's passionate about technology, eager to learn, and ready to make an impact from day one. You'll join a close-knit team where your ideas matter, your development is supported, and your work goes live for real customers. 

The Role  

You'll become part of a team of four developers working across customer-facing comparison journeys, internal platforms and business-critical services. We use a modern tech stack with minimal legacy code, giving you the opportunity to work with technologies you'll continue to use and develop throughout your career. 

Working closely with experienced developers, you'll gain hands-on experience while following a structured development plan designed to support your growth. 

What you'll be doing: 

• Building and enhancing features across our Laravel applications 

• Developing customer-facing journeys, admin tools and internal services 

• Writing clean, maintainable and tested PHP code 

• Creating interactive user experiences using Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS 

• Working with MySQL databases and optimising queries 

• Troubleshooting issues, identifying root causes and delivering fixes 

• Participating in code reviews, sprint planning and team ceremonies 

• Supporting integrations with third-party APIs and providers #

The Candidate  

• Around 2 years' commercial experience in a PHP development role 

• Good knowledge of Laravel and its core components 

• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript 

• Experience working with relational databases and SQL 

• Confident using Git within a collaborative development environment 

• Strong communication skills and confidence working with both technical and non-technical colleagues 

• Curiosity, initiative and a willingness to learn 

Nice to haves: 

• Experience with Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS 

• Filament or similar admin tooling frameworks 

• Automated testing using PHPUnit or Pest 

• Experience with Laravel queues and scheduled tasks 

• Statamic CMS 

• AWS or other cloud platforms 

• Agile working practices and Jira 

About Bionic  

Bionic has over 600 colleagues working across five office locations and 6 businesses; Bionic - London, Bionic Outbound – Luton, Think Business Loans – Chelmsford, Business Comparison – Chester, Utility Bidder – Corby, and Smart – Field based agents.   

We have a high energy work environment wherever the location; you can feel the passion the moment you walk through our door! Our work environments are packed with amazing people and energy, hubs of collaboration.   

Benefits  

We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors, our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks.   

Enhance your health & wellbeing    

• Private healthcare cover   

• Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies   

• Eyecare scheme   

Taking time away from work ️   

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with tenure   

• 1 paid family & religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period   

• 1 paid charity volunteering day per year   

• Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year   

Family matters: for the special moments    

• Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave   

• 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service   

Financial wellbeing    

• Auto-enrolled salary sacrifices pension scheme    

• Life assurance   

• Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure   

• Cycle to work scheme   

 Recognition    

• Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success   

• Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition    

• Long service awards