PHP Developer - Backend
2017-04-27 12:13:48
2018-01-01 00:00:00
- Brighton, East Sussex
- £40,000 YEAR
- 1st Jan ’18
- Closed
The Company
My client has a leading nightlife listings app focused on the student market. They offer users a comprehensive going-out guide, ticketing platform and drinks and entry discounts.
The Role
Based in Brighton the successful candidate will join our close-knit and passionate team, working in conjunction with our app developers and part-time CTO.
This is primarily a PHP development role, involving extensive interaction with third party services and partners, so knowledge of creating RESTful (JSON) APIs is advantageous.
You will:
- Work directly with the other developers to build components for the platform.
- Control the platform in object-oriented PHP.
- Build appropriate unit tests, integration tests and deployment scripts.
- Provide maintenance to the platform and high-level support for its users.
- Contribute to the improvement of the platform - suggest improvements to code, technology, architecture and workflow.
- Assist triage and resolution for production issues as they arise.
Requirements
You will be highly ambitious and eager to match your personal development to keep pace with the growth of the business.
An analytical mind-set, coupled with the ability to think laterally is a must for this role, but you will also be an excellent communicator with a proactive and creative approach. You should also be keen to contribute to directing the broader strategy of the business.
You should have the following skills and experience:
Essential:
- Degree level education or relevant equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with Object Oriented PHP, common design patterns and modern frameworks (including Wordpress) on both server and client sides.
- Experience in deploying and using AWS
Preferred:
- Experience in team leadership.
- Ability to build standards compliant HTML5 and CSS3 front end code.
- Understanding of native JavaScript and common JavaScript libraries and frameworks - specifically jQuery, Handlebars.js
- Front End Technology skills (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery)
- Unit testing experience.
- Knowledge and experience of the following product languages: MySQL
- Experience with implementing third party web services and tools - in particular Amazon Web Services, Google Analytics, Bing Ads and Google Adwords APIs and WordPress.