Senior PHP Developer – City London

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

Job summary

A leading e-commerce company in London seeks a Senior PHP Developer to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate will leverage over 8 years of experience with PHP and MySQL, contribute to development and planning, and enhance company projects through leadership and innovation. This role offers a significant opportunity to impact an advanced e-commerce platform.

Qualifications

• At least 8+ years of commercial experience with PHP and MySQL.
• Proven leadership ability over development teams.
• Strong understanding of database optimisation and caching technologies.

Responsibilities

• Development work and spec writing for high-end e-commerce platform.
• Lead team efforts, assist PMs with project planning and architecture overview.
• Address bottlenecks in collaboration with Tech Director.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

Database Optimisation

Caching Technologies

Linux

MVC

ORM

Unit Testing

HTML

CSS/XHTML

JQuery

Communication

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.

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