Senior PHP Developer – City London

Free-Work; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Free-Work in London is seeking a Senior PHP Developer with 8+ years of commercial PHP/MySQL experience on Linux to work near the Tech Director and help remove bottlenecks.

You'll collaborate with in-house devs on a high-end, scalable e-commerce platform, write specs, assist PMs with planning, conduct code reviews, and shape the architecture and road map.

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the e-commerce platform on Linux servers.
• Assist with spec writing and project planning with PMs.
• Conduct code reviews, architecture overview and implementation tasks.
• Provide technical direction and lead development teams to meet deadlines.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

LAMP

Linux

MVC

ORM

Unit Testing

HTML

CSS/XHTML

JQuery

English communication

Caching Technologies

Tools

MemCached

Redis

Varnish

Job description

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.

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.