Our client, a renowned Broadcasting Giant is recruiting for a Senior Agile PHP/Javascript Developerfor an initial 6 month contract based in Osterley.
You will join a team of PHP/Javascript developers who deliver high quality software following an agile development process. The ideal candidate will be good at "getting things done", and likes the idea of team owned code; well maintained, and refactored where appropriate. You test drive the writing of your code, and are comfortable pairing with others. You follow best practice in PHP development and care about the code you write.
Responsibilities
- Designing and implementing a new web app to serve business and retail clients.
- Helping to establish best development practice in the team.
- Identifying bottlenecks in, and profiling of the application codebase.
Essential
- Extensive experience with object-oriented PHP.
- Independent problem solving skills, ability to write code that scales well.
- Understanding of how the web works, from HTML to HTTP.
- Flexibility: we're a small team, but we move quickly.
- Embrace agile software engineering practices; TDD, Continuous Integration...
- Experienced crafting semantically correct HTML, quality structured CSS and tested, OO JavaScript.
- Experience of MVC web frameworks such as Symfony.
- Comfortable writing xPath expressions.
- Experience of use of JQuery and/or Prototype JavaScript Libraries.
- Experience with functional testing tools such as Selenium.
- Solid understanding of cross-browser technology issues and how these can be addressed in development.
- A practiced philosophy of Test Driven Development.
- Commercial experience scaling and tuning PHP web applications.
- Experience working on high-volume websites.
- Bachelors' degree or equivalent industry experience.
Desirable
- Use of OO/MVC Javascript Frameworks such as backbone.js, spine.js, quint, underscore
- Zend Certification advantageous.
- Web services and syndication.
Position: Senior Agile PHP/Javascript Developer
Contract duration: 6 Months initially
Start date: ASAP
Pay rate: £450 per day
Location: Osterley
Suitable candidates should submit their CV's at the first instance, please note that only suitable candidates will be contacted directly.
