Senior PHP Developer

Senior PHP Developer
Exeter
£30k+ DOE

Due to the success of 2013 our client is seeking Senior and Graduate PHP developers to join their creative team. Great pay and a fun atmosphere awaits the ideal candidates for this position. Reporting to the Studio Manager, you would be responsible for the development of small/medium and large scale Internet web sites. Our client evaluates, design, select and implement pragmatic, cost effective technologies, to support their various clients’ business models.

Our client’s ideal “Senior” candidate:
• Proven team building and leadership experience in a web development environment
• Staff training and team development skills and experience
• Strong written/verbal communication skills
• Experienced in estimating effort and elapsed time required to complete project deliverables.
• Skilled in both Object Oriented and Non-Object Oriented Design and programming techniques.
• Several years of skill in PHP and at least one other object oriented language
• Experience in SOAP & REST
• Experience designing with large scale distributed databases
• Strong business and technical analytical ability so as to create robust technical design documentation from business requirements documentation
• Proven ability to define success criteria to meet and measure quality expectations
• Knowledge of frameworks including Zend and Code Ignitor

Responsibilities:
• Motivating and leading a small team of developers
• Provide feedback on business requirements documentation to ensure resolution of any apparent ambiguity or contradictions
• Functional Breakdown, Design, Programming, testing and maintaining web site applications to support the business requirements
• Perform impact analysis for design modification
• Participation in the selection and implementation of third party software to support design where it is practicable
• Communicating with several third party billing processors to setup and maintain robust ecommerce billing solutions
• Appropriate documentation for each development step – including functional, design, and testing specifications
• Developing and documenting workload estimates (ie: Creation of workload breakdown plan to define and track software development efforts)
• Selection, implementation and/or modification of web development practices and methodologies to support continuous improvement efforts
• Provide assistance to junior programmers to generate Low Level Design documentation for new or modified functionality
• Conduct documentation and code reviews for their team members to ensure standards compliance
• Communicate issues and status information to Studio Manager
• Liaison with Studio Manager to resolve scheduling conflict and project dependencies
• Update system data and prepare conversion requirement as necessary for new implementation and production rollout
• Participate in project status review meetings
Technical Expectations:
• 5-6+ years of Commerical PHP 4/5 design/coding/testing/implementing using Open Source approach
• 4+ years of Object Orientation design and development experience for large scale distributed web applications
• Linux, Mac O/SX, MySQL, PHP, Apache/Light HTTP technologies experience
• Computer Science trained graduate or equivalent work experience

Salary: 30k+ DOE

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