Senior PHP Developer (Freelance Contractor)

Title:                    Senior Developer (Full-Stack PHP)

Job Type:            Freelance (outside IR35)

Tenure:               Freelance contractor (3 months)

Location:            Remote

Education:         Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)

This is an outside IR35 short-term freelance contract opportunity, available to applicants in the UK and Europe (fluent business English is essential).

About us:

We invite you to come grow with us.

Research Partnership (part of Inizio Advisory) is one of the world's largest pharma market research and consulting agencies with over 250 researchers, consultants, project managers and support staff. Our teams are located across the globe, in Europe (London, Lyon), North America (New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco) and Asia (Singapore, India).

As individuals with diverse backgrounds, as a team with shared values, as professionals ready to reimagine health and life sciences—you can grow with us at a place that:

• Makes a difference to human health
• Shares values and celebrates progress
• Puts people at the centre of everything

About the team:

The Research Partnership is a leading global provider of healthcare market research. The Research Partnership team delivers custom longitudinal brand tracking for large pharmaceutical-sector clients, with client facing dashboards and custom reporting deliverables.

Your primary role:

We are looking for a senior Fullstack PHP Developer freelance contractor to assist an experienced development team to maintain and extend our Bespoke Online Market Tracking Platform. The platform includes client facing dashboards, database management warehouse, data collection portal, and administration portal.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic senior Fullstack PHP Developer to join our team to provide ongoing support, troubleshooting, maintenance and upgrades as well as assisting where relevant on developing the front-end web portal and the back-end database infrastructure.

About You…

The successful candidate must have good software development skills in the core technologies of our platform, with at least eight years commercial development experience, as well as excellent team facing communication skills, and an intuitive approach to bespoke development.

Your skills and experience:

We are looking for a motivated individual to contribute to an Enterprise software development environment, and keen to work as part of an experienced, flexible, and intuitive development team. The ideal candidate will be familiar with developing software in a commercial team environment, and be looking to further extend and develop their skills. The suitable candidate will have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Technology (or a related field)
• 8 years’ experience with PHP, PostgreSQL or any relational database, and Front-end and back-end technology experience in a commercial environment
• Innovative and pragmatic with the ability to find solutions to problems
• Motivated to extend and develop their skills into an Enterprise bespoke environment
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent spoken and written English

Core Technical/Development Skills:

• PHP 7.2+ (minimum 8 years commercial experience)
• PostgreSQL (minimum 8 years commercial experience)
• Javascript;
• AWS, Docker;
• PHPUnit and tests experience;
• Experience with code organization, commenting, and documentation
• Any modern MVC frameworks
• Dashboard development experience would be beneficial.

Ideal profile:

• You are proactive, dedicated and enthusiastic, with a ‘can do’ attitude and approach
• You demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, as well as strengths in organisation and prioritisation
• You are a collaborative team player who works well with colleagues
• You communicate ideas and issues in an effective, straightforward fashion
• You are highly motivated and want to seize opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career

Life at Research Partnership:

We love what we do and continuously strive for innovation and creativity. We believe everyone should continuously be learning and provide:

• A comprehensive training and development programme for all staff, from entry level apprentice to senior management
• Opportunities for international travel and collaboration
• A relaxed and friendly working environment

About Inizio Advisory:

Research Partnership is part of Inizio Advisory, a trusted advisor for health and life science companies that turns science into strategy, supporting execution at every stage of the product and patient journey from early commercialization to launch and beyond. Offering market research and insights; strategy; people and transformation consulting; and commercial benchmarking delivered through sector specific connected solutions and intelligence, Inizio Advisory helps create long-term value for clients and their patients.

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.