Really exciting opportunity for a PHP Developer to join a forward thinking award winning innovative software company.
My client is looking for a talented mid-weight PHP developer to join their team. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an ability to plan and structure their work from concept, through specification, coding and final testing - whilst considering the real-time needs of the business. Being flexible enough to react to the rapidly changing demands of our operation is essential, therefore the ideal developer will be able to think quickly, plan carefully and be able to rapidly deploy robust, well-tested solutions.
The Role for PHP Developer
Writing exceptional PHP with the Releasing open source bundles, like GoogleMapsBundle, gassetic Working with new technologies like RabbitMQ, Redis Harnessing the power of a distributed, scalable server environment. Thinking up new features for our rapidly growing user base. Being part of a small team in an agile environment with code reviews and discussions Leading the development team and practising BDD.
The Company itself
- Varied work within a diverse client base (from large UK corporates and SME in all industry sectors)
- An experienced and mature process driven development process (Sprints, Agile, Daily Stand-ups, User stories, Code Review)
- An ever-progressing technology stack, with projects that allow for innovative and new approaches to be implemented
- Small developer focused and friendly team
- Continued professional development opportunities including for paid attendance at conferences e.g. Lead Developer
- 32 days holiday including bank holidays
- Annual Training Allowance
- Regular Team Building and Social Events
- Free unlimited on-site parking
- Flexible working
- Option to purchase additional holiday
- Vitality Private HealthCare Scheme
- Company Pension
- Defined career progression pathway
- Fully funded socials
- European breaks
Requirements
Technical Skills Excellent knowledge of PHP and design patterns Doctrine2, PHPUnit, composer, git, Behat, PHPSpec Advanced knowledge of Symfony2 PHP (5.3+)
- MySQL
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- Database (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
- Web Servers (Apache/Nginx) Desired:
Desired
- A degree in computing science or a related subject is an advantage
- Additional Programming Languages (Ruby, Python, Java Script, Perl, NodeJS, C/++, C# etc.)
- Modern JS Framework (jQuery, Ember, Angular, React, ExtJS etc.)
- System Administration (CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows, OSX etc.)
- Framework experience (Zend, Symfony, Lithium, Laravel, Yii etc.)
- Application experience (WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Silverstripe etc.)