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
Skills Required
- Around 2 years of 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 use of Git in a collaborative development environment
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical colleagues
- Curiosity, initiative, and willingness to learn
- Experience with Livewire, Alpine.js, and Tailwind CSS
- Experience with Filament or similar admin tooling frameworks
- Automated testing using PHPUnit or Pest
- Experience with Laravel queues and scheduled tasks
- Experience with Statamic CMS
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with Agile working practices and Jira
What We Do
Bionic is an expert comparison service for SMEs. Our experts compare trusted UK business suppliers and talk customers through the results on their screens. We’re the UK market leader, established for over a decade, with more than 200,000 UK businesses helped. Rated Excellent on Trustpilot. Bionic is 7th in the Sunday Times ‘best companies to work for’. Our amazing people and high-performance culture are a key part of our business strategy. We’re part of something bigger than any one of us, and our energy and passion is striking. Sign-up to The Backbone, our newsletter for anyone who owns, runs or works at a SME: https://thebackbone.substack.com/p/coming-soon
