Senior PHP Software Developer – City London

Nexus Jobs Limited; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home working option

Competitive salary

Job summary

Nexus Jobs Limited is seeking a Senior PHP Software Developer in Central London to build a high-end, scalable e-commerce platform. You will leverage PHP/MySQL on Linux servers, optimise databases, and employ caching technologies to performance-tune systems.

The role requires 5+ years of commercial experience, with strong back-end logic and front-end collaboration using jQuery. Base location is City London with potential for hybrid/home-based work up to 3 days per week.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial experience with PHP and MySQL.
• Experience on Linux servers with database optimisation and caching technologies (Memcached, Redis, Varnish).
• Back-end business logic exposure with front-end development using jQuery.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

LAMP

Linux

MVC

ORM

HTML

CSS/XHTML

JQuery

Caching Technologies

Independent / Team

Humour

Job description

Senior PHP Software Developer – City London

The ideal candidate will have sound 5 to 10 years proven commercial experience with developing software with PHP and MySQL.

Must have experience of working on a Linux server with good experience of database optimisation and caching technologies, such as Memcached, Redis or Varnish.

Will also need to be comfortable working with back-end business logic and have experience of best-practice front-end development, using jQuery.

Based in Central London uou will be working on the development of a high-end, scalable e-commerce retail platform.

What You Need to bring to the table for this position:

At Least 5+ years of Commercial Experience and Knowledge of:

• PHP
• MySQL, including database optimization
• LAMP
• Linux
• MVC, ORM
• HTML
• CSS/XHTML
• JQuery
• Caching Technologies, such as Memcached, Redis or Varnish
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team and operate to tight deadlines
• Sense of humour please

Advantageous But Not a Must:

• Great knowledge of Apache, specifically Mod Rewrite
• Good working knowledge of Linux, including command line
• Server administration experience
• Ecommerce experience
• Smarty
• Competitive Salary
• Career Growth and Financial Stability
• Excellent Benefits: Opportunity to work up to 3 days a week from home

The salary for this role will be in the range £45K - £60K.