Bionic Group
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