PHP Developer

• Past experience working with clients to sell ideas, capture requirements and lead them through complex processes
• Experience working with creatives and concepting projects
• Experience in the practical application of a range of software development methodologies
• Excellent PHP5, MVC, OO Experience, LAMP, HTML5, Javascript, XML and SASS experience
• Excellent MVC web applications experience
• Strong Enterprise Architecture experience
• A thorough, broad, innovative knowledge and understanding of the internet and emerging technologies and standards
• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support
• Refactor, optimize and improve the existing codebase for maintenance and scale
• Use test driven development and acceptance tests to ensure feature quality
• Interface with customer and internal teams to gather requirements and develop software solutions
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
• Experience in Linux Server environment
• Experience of Agile Management System eg Jira & Confluence
• Attention to detail and able to work to deadlines
• Confidence to present ideas to both colleagues and clients
• Ability to work on several projects at one time and manage workflow
• Work as part of a team but also unrepentantly
• Documenting functional and non-functional technical requirements
• Keep up-to-date with latest trends, innovations, cultures and new technical developments/changes within the industry

PHP Developer requirements and qualifications

• Previous working experience as a PHP Developer for 1 year
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar relevant field
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Proficient in PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery Expert
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Symfony, Kohana, CodeIgniter, Phalcon Zend, etc)
• Extensive experience with Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Hands on Angular, couchDB and/or MongoDB
• Excellent relational database skills with MySQL
• Experience with building restful JSON web services
• Knowledge of API's, such as twitter, Facebook, Google maps, Instagram, etc
• Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap