Web and App Developer

Web and App Developer

Location: Remote
Reports to: Senior Developer

WHO ARE WE?

Go Ape is the UKs number 1 adventure company with locations nationwide and multiple activities. We’ve been providing adventures since 2002 and have welcomed over 10 million customers, but we’re not done yet and have big ambitions for the future.

Go Ape is now Employee Owned that means every Go Ape employee whether full time, part time or a seasonal worker are now co-owners of the business. As a co-owner you will be empowered to voice your opinions and ideas through an elected Employee Council and have a real say in helping to shape the business.

About the Role

Join Go Ape's tech team to help shape our digital presence and work on our internal tools. You'll be at the forefront of maintaining and evolving our customer-facing website and aiding in the development of modern applications to replace legacy PowerApps systems. This is a hands-on role where you'll work across the full stack, from our Astro-powered public website to Laravel APIs and React web apps.

You'll be mentored by our Senior Developer with regular code review and pairing sessions, to help you develop your skills and grow your confidence.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll start with small, well-defined work and take on more as your confidence grows.

Website Development & Management

• Maintain and enhance goape.co.uk using our modern stack: Astro, React 19, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS 4
• Integrate with our headless CMS Dato and Laravel API
• Help make our site faster, more accessible and easier to find, keeping our outdoor adventures discoverable
• Learn to ship your own work through our Cloudflare Pages pipeline

Application Development & Modernisation

• Contribute to the new applications replacing our legacy PowerApps tools, built with Next.js, React and TypeScript
• Help connect those applications to the systems we already run
• Learn our practices for keeping data secure and compliant
• Support and improve what we've built, iteration by iteration

Collaboration & Technical Excellence

• Work with the IT team and the wider business to understand what people need and build it
• Write things down, learn our version control practices and add to our technical knowledge base
• Help troubleshoot issues across our digital estate
• Make the most of mentoring and code reviews to continue building your skills and craft quickly

What We're Looking For

Essential Skills

• You've written some code, in any language, and enjoyed it enough to carry on
• You understand roughly how a web page is put together with HTML and CSS
• You can break a task or a process down into clear steps and work out where it goes wrong
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and the persistence to stay with something that isn't working yet
• Clear communication, including with colleagues who aren't technical
• A genuine appetite for learning and the habit of picking things up under your own steam

Highly Desirable

• Experience with Astro or other static site generators
• Any experience with JavaScript, React or another component-based framework
• Familiarity with TypeScript, Git, or Tailwind CSS
• Anything you've built or automated to fix a real problem at work, including with PowerApps, Power Automate, Excel formulas or similar
• Comfort working with data: how records relate to each other, and how to filter, sort and check them
• Any backend experience, with Laravel, PHP or anything else
• Exposure to APIs, SEO, web performance or accessibility
• Something you've built that you can show us, however small or unfinished
• First-hand experience of how Go Ape operates on the ground

Haven't Built Anything Yet?

That's fine, and it's not a reason to sit this one out. If you're interested in being a developer apply and we can discuss your experience together.

Our Tech Stack

This is what you'll grow into. Nobody expects you to know it on day one, and most of it you'll pick up in your first year.

Frontend: Astro (islands architecture), React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4
Component Development: Storybook 9, Radix UI, class-variance-authority, Framer Motion
Backend & CMS: Laravel (PHP), DatoCMS (headless CMS)
Infrastructure: Digital Ocean, Laravel Forge, Cloudflare Pages
Tools & Services: Google Maps API, Lucide React icons

COMPANY ETHOS

Our Values

Keeping the adventure in adventure Encouraging ‘I can’t’ to become ‘I can’ Always seeking to be two steps better Zero risk equals zero development To challenge, surprise and excite Build in customer delight Be socially and environmentally responsible Create worthwhile, rewarding jobs Do the right thing

Our Mission

To be the best Adventure Leisure company on the planet (where you can be home in time for tea)

Our Vision

“Creating adventures; encouraging everyone to live life adventurously”

If you feel as strongly as we do about encouraging everyone to live life more adventurously then this could be the perfect environment for you to work in!

At Go Ape we are committed to our 'Working together to Safeguard Children' obligation for safeguarding and in this role you will be working in a position of trust.

Diversity, equity and inclusion matters at Go Ape. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our co-owners to thrive and achieve their full potential.

Our Glassdoor rating for Diversity & Inclusion is 4.8 out of 5, this is above the average for our industry and a company of our size.

As well as providing training, we issue a survey to our new co-owners at Go Ape to support us in monitoring equality, diversity and inclusion in the recruitment and onboarding process. We are pleased to hold a score of 4.88 out of 5 in response to the following question ‘On a scale of 1 – 5, how accurate would you say the following statement is ‘I feel welcome at Go Ape’ (5 being very accurate)’.

As the above illustrates, we are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We will consider reasonable adjustments for all our roles.

Please note that all offers are subject to acceptable Right to Work documents being provided.