ABOUT US

Genie Shopping is into its next growth phase and being part of the Development team is at the core of delivering this.
As a part of Genie Ventures, Best Team in Performance Marketing 2025 and certified a Great Place to Work 2024-25, Genie Shopping is looking for our next Senior Symfony Developer to join us, bringing bigger and better results to our existing accounts.
The team works in a collaborative, distributed environment where we’re striving to be the best team in performance marketing, always.
Genie Shopping is one of Europe’s leading CSS’, running Google Shopping campaigns on a CPA basis through the Affiliate Channel. We currently partner with some of Europe’s leading retailers such as eBay, Currys, Boots, Lookfantastic, Samsung, Philips, B&Q and more.
Over the past 12 months, Genie Shopping has entered a new phase of growth, generating over £500million in sales, and growing 100% YoY in respect of Gross Profit.
While the team is distributed, we are flexible to meet in-person for client meetings, industry events, strategy days and team socials. There are requirements to travel to Cambridge once a month, with London (or other UK locations) once a month on average.

JOB OVERVIEW

We’re looking for a hands-on developer to join Genie Shopping, a fast-growing comparison shopping service business which is a certified Great Place to Work!

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Extensive coding experience in a commercial environment.
• Expert automated testing knowledge and experience.
• Excellent programming skills, including design patterns, optimisation, scaling and exactly-how-much to abstract.
• Expert knowledge of PHP and Symfony.
• Good knowledge of data stores and their trade-offs.
• Experience of delivering projects in a complex domain.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Strong educational background.
• Knowledge of our front-end technologies: Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, SASS.
• Knowledge of our DevOps technologies: AWS, Terraform, ECS, GitHub, Docker.

SKILLS

• You care about quality and still Get Things Done.
• You learn new things quickly.
• You have excellent problem-solving skills.
• You can communicate well with both technical and non-technical people.
• You’re friendly, approachable and like to work in a team.
• You’re open minded and flexible in your approach to working.
• You have good time management skills to juggle multiple tasks.

HOW YOU’LL DO IT

Most of our systems are built with PHP and Symfony. We place a high value on automated testing and Continuous Deployment, and can deploy multiple times each day.
We really care about code quality - we have team-owned code standards and all code is peer-reviewed. We see code reviews as a vital tool to help each other improve and spread knowledge throughout the team.
We have an agile approach to project management which currently has elements of Scrum and Kanban.
Some of the technologies we’re using are:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Deliver large projects which meet the user and business requirements set by the Product Owners, within the technical constraints of the development team guidelines.
• Write high-quality code, including automated tests, comments and following the team’s coding standards.
• Review other team members’ code as part of our code review process.
• Support the Product Owners through the projects’ acceptance phases.
• Contribute to the team discussions and overall project direction.
• Help the Product Owners with managing their backlogs and formulating new projects.
• Provide support for less experienced developers in the team