Job Description
Julie Rose Recruitment is looking for a PHP Developer to join a market leader within the loans market, your focus will be on team goals, customer value and looking at the bigger picture.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am – 5pm (flexibility between 8am and 6pm by
Location: Dartford
Salary: £30,000 (up to £50,000 for the right candidate)
Benefits: Pension, insurances, Perkbox and annual/quarterly bonus
Holidays: 23 days (rising to 28 following 5 years’ service)
Duties for the PHP Developer:
- Helping to build functional requirements, technical design and implement application features
- Field questions and solve problems for user support and client services
- Participate in design and code reviews
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by the Website Developers, with server-side logic
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimisation of code for maximum speed and scalability
- Implementation of efficient, secure and scalable software
- Build and maintain functional apps for the business
- Building and modification of API’s to enable system integration
- Reporting on development releases monthly
- Solve complex scalability, platform and integration problems
- Be actively involved in company projects, to ensure the Development function is actively promoted
Personal Specification for the PHP Developer:
- Excellent communication skills (telephone and written)
- Candidates must be fully conversant in PHP development
- Must be conversant with both object orient and procedural coding
- Candidates must be fully conversant with MySQL database design, optimisation and development (not necessarily a full DBA skillset)
- Excellent knowledge of Integration and exchange protocols (ex. XML, Soap, Json etc.) essential
- A knowledge of application security is desirable (preferred experience with PCI DSS compliant systems)
- Basic Unix command line knowledge essential
- Excellent knowledge of html5, CSS and JavaScript (jQuery) essential
- Experience working with GIT