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Firmus Consulting
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2020-10-29T08:01:01Z
PHP Developer
Salary £40,000 – £55,000
Location M4 Corridor (However Remote working)
Exciting opportunity available for a PHP developer working for a very prestigious company.
Company runs multiple web based front-end and back-end IT systems that support high traffic ecommerce websites.
The back-end systems have modules to support every area of the business and are constantly being updated and improved using the latest open source technologies.
This role requires an experienced PHP Developer to deliver new projects and maintain existing systems whilst ensuring the highest standards are maintained within an exciting and fast paced development environment.
Responsibilities
• Develop and test software for internal applications
• Provide estimates on projects before and during projects
• Provide support in your area of expertise, assisting with relevant support desk issues
• Advise on technical aspects of projects when in planning stages
Key Characteristics
• Confident and comfortable at problem solving and finding viable solutions through researching evidence based best practice and offering constructive challenge to existing processes and practices.
• Is an advocate for working collaboratively and collectively in pursuit of joint goals across multiple functions.
• Has an appetite for and is confident at contributing towards a continual cycle of change.
• Comfortable with change, ambiguity and able to challenge stakeholders at all levels and prioritise conflicting and competing demands.
• Has the courage to challenge the status quo, what we do and why we do it and present solutions and ideas to make improvement to efficiencies and quality.
• Able to work independently, take the initiative, and contribute to new ideas required in a diverse, fast-paced, deadline-driven team.
Skills/Experience
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in commercial PHP development
• Proven track record for developing scalable web applications
• Strong experience writing clean code with the ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Experience with modern PHP 7 and Composer
• Experience with functional, unit and Selenium testing
• Able to code complex DDL and DML SQL from scratch. Optimize queries and modify existing SQL in a MySQL environment
• Experience with Javascript libraries such as jQuery, VueJS or Angular
• Experience developing cross-browser interfaces using HTML5, CSS, SASS and Bootstrap
• Experience with GIT version control systems, ideally Bitbucket
• Experience with Linux/Unix especially using basic command line tools
• Experience with AWS would be useful
