Senior Php Developer

• NielsenIQ Brandbank Software Engineers work collaboratively alongside other development team members, Product Owners & Engineering Managers to realise business goals.
• Working within a dedicated delivery team, the Senior Software Engineer - using an incremental delivery approach - is responsible for guiding the team in developing new and existing products by understanding and translating backlog items into solutions

Job Responsibilities:

• Approach work from an Agile mindset applying practices and principles wherever possible
• Attend and participate in all Sprint events to achieve desired outcomes, taking a leading role where required to ensure events have a good outcome
• Collaborates closely with all team members to take a shared responsibility for the sprint backlog and their success
• Maintain broader code quality through peer code reviews
• Identify improvement opportunities and agree on actionable improvements
• Be available, on a best endeavors basis, to support the resolution of Severity 1 and 2 incidents for applications owned by your team between 7am and 10pm local time on local working days as well as providing retrospective feedback

Qualifications:

Role Requirements E=essential, P=preferred

E - Demonstrable experience of mentoring other more junior Engineers

E - Bachelors Degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent professional qualification or experience

E - Strong hands on technical skills across some or all of the Microsoft Stack and other key technologies:

• PHP
• MS Azure
• Javascript / Typescript (React preferable)
• MySQL
• PHPUnit
• Elasticsearch
• GIT
• XML, JSON

E - Excited by technology, with up to date understanding of latest technologies

E -  Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly

E - Familiarity and good experience with Agile development methodologies and the complete product lifecycle from inception to delivery

E - Good understanding of software architecture, issues and design

E -Good understanding of data and databases

E - Proven track record or working as part of a team to deliver software solutions to meet customer needs

E - Thorough and detailed approach with the ability to identify appropriate user/business solutions

E - Some experience of code reviews and coding standards

E - Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal

E - An analytical mind

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)