Description
A dynamic Senior PHP Developer is required ASAP to work for one of our Public Sector/Central Government Client in Nottingham
Job Title: Senior PHP Developer
Location: Nottingham
Employment Type: Contract
Responsibilities
- Senior PHP Developer required to work with existing team of PHP Symfony 2 devs to update and maintain existing functionality and produce new features to ensure that a digital, public-facing service is iterated and improved via user first principles.
Essential skills and experience -
- 4+ Years acting as a senior developer in a strong Object Orientated PHP environment
- Experience building Server Side web applications and detailed knowledge of at least PHP and/or detailed understanding and experience of Front End web development (HTML/CSS/JS)
- Outstanding ability to develop efficient, highly optimised and clear code
- Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behaviour and performance
- An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Experience working on technical projects within a team
- Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
- Knowledge of the git version control system
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and tech
Nice-to-have skills and experience -
- Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity
- Act as a tech lead on complex projects, providing support for product and delivery management and pragmatically weighing the complexities involved against the need to act
- Experience mentoring or helping colleagues optimise their code
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
- System administration and configuration management skills
- Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences
- Understanding of the use of Responsive Web Design
- Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage
- Experience of working with JavaScript libraries to produce data visualisations
- Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs
- Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage
- Experience of Continuous integration (preferably with Jenkins)
If you think this role is right for you. Don't waste time, apply today!