PHP Developer
Dartford - Flexible working available
Salary: £ Neg
VR/02512R

We are looking for an experienced PHP Developer to join this vibrant and quickly expanding company based in Dartford. For this role our client can offer a flexible working week, i.e. week one: 3 days working in the office, the other 2 work from home; week two: 3 days from home and 2 days in the office.

As a PHP Developer, your main responsibility is for the production, modification and maintenance of back-end applications. This involves working closely with Website Developers and Designers to ensure the website and applications are built as specified.

The PHP Developer will also work closely with the UAT Coordinator to test your server-side code. Your focus will be on team goals, customer-value and looking at the bigger picture.

Benefits
Flexible working week - week one: 3 days working in the office, the other 2 work from home, week two: 3 days from home and 2 days in the office
Competitive salary
Annual/Quarterly Bonus
Pension Scheme
Private Medical & Dental Insurance
Life Assurance
23 days holiday (rising to 28 following 5 years of service)
Birthdays off and a day off for Christmas shopping
Wedding/Civil Partnership Leave
Perkbox Benefits
Cost co Card Membership
Gym Membership
Option to buy and sell holiday entitlement


Duties & responsibilities of 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 APIs 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 Profile of the PHP Developer
· Excellent customer service skills
· Excellent communication skills (telephone and written)
· Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
· Sound judgement
· Initiative
· Flexible
· Detail-oriented

Experience
· Fully conversant in PHP development
· Must be conversant with both object-oriented 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

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