Senior PHP Developer

Nexus Jobs Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexus Jobs Limited in City of London is seeking a Senior PHP Developer with a minimum of 8 years' commercial PHP and MySQL experience on Linux to help optimise and scale our high‑end e-commerce platform.

You'll work closely with our in‑house developer team, assist with spec writing, project planning, code reviews, architecture overview and implementation, and help drive the company roadmap.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial PHP/MySQL experience on Linux.
• PHP, MySQL including database optimisation.
• LAMP stack on Linux.
• MVC and ORM knowledge.
• Unit testing experience.
• HTML/CSS and jQuery.
• Caching technologies (MemCached, Redis, Varnish).
• Excellent written and spoken English communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the e-commerce platform with PHP/MySQL on Linux.
• Contribute to spec writing and project planning.
• Assist PMs with planning, code reviews, and architecture overview.

Skills

PHP & MySQL

Linux

LAMP

MVC

ORM

Unit Testing

HTML/CSS

jQuery

Caching

English

Leadership

Architecture

Job description

Senior PHP Developer

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 8 years commercial experience with PHP and MySQL working on a Linux server with good experience of Database Optimisation and Caching Technologies. You will sit just below the Tech Director and help perform some of the task that he does which are causing bottlenecks.

You will be working hand in hand with our passionate in-house developer team helping improve and grow, our high-end, scalable e-commerce platform. You will be expected to do development work, along with getting involved in spec writing, assisting PMs with project planning, code reviews, architecture overview and implementation and assisting with the Company road map.

You could either already be a Lead Developer/Development Manager etc. with full leadership over a development team.

Required Skills

• At Least 8+ years of Commercial Experience and Knowledge of:
• PHP
• MySQL, including database optimisation
• LAMP
• Linux
• MVC, ORM
• Unit Testing
• HTML
• CSS/XHTML
• JQuery
• Caching Technologies, such as MemCached, Redis or Varnish
• Ability to share and communicate ideas clearly, both orally and writing in impeccable English language
• Must have the ability to proactively lead development teams and provide technical direction
• Capacity to work independently or as part of a team and operate to tight deadlines

Advantageous But Not Essential

• Great knowledge of Apache, specifically Mod Rewrite
• Good working knowledge of Linux, including command line
• Server administration experience
• Ecommerce experience
• Smarty

Salary will be £60K - £65K.