Senior PHP Developer – City London

Jas Gujral; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company in City of London seeks a Senior PHP Developer with over 8 years of experience in PHP and MySQL. The ideal candidate will engage in a variety of tasks including development, project planning, and leading a team. A competitive salary ranging from £60K to £65K is offered. Send your CV in Word format.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial experience with PHP and MySQL working on a Linux server.
• Ability to proactively lead development teams and provide technical direction.
• Experience with database optimisation and caching technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain PHP/MySQL applications on Linux.
• Engage in spec writing, assist PMs with project planning.
• Lead development initiatives and possibly a team.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

Database Optimisation

Caching Technologies

LAMP

Unit Testing

HTML

CSS/XHTML

JQuery

Leadership

Job description

Overview

Senior PHP Developer – City London

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain PHP/MySQL applications on Linux.
• Engage in spec writing, assist PMs with project planning, code reviews, architecture overview and implementation.
• Assist with the Company road map and help lead development initiatives.
• Possibly lead a development team (Lead Developer/Development Manager).

Qualifications

• 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 communicate ideas clearly in English (spoken and written)
• 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

Advantages (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.

Send your CV to us in Word format.