PHP Web Developer

Job Overview

The Senior Web Developer will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of our web applications. Your role will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing projects, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and secure web solutions.

This is an incredibly exciting time to be joining their technical delivery team as they continue to invest heavily in the team and wider department, including an increased focus on both the accessibility and usability of our user experiences.

Requirements

• Commercial experience
• Experience of PHP MVC frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony or CodeIgniter
• Experience of using Test Driven Development in commercial projects;
• Demonstrable record of delivering high-quality object-oriented code and using SOLID principles;
• A strong grasp of MySQL with the ability to identify problematic or costly queries;
• Experience of React JS as well as other foundational front-end technologies e.g Vanilla Javascript/jQuery, HTML, CSS;
• Experience of Agile development methodologies e.g. Scrum
• Experience with REST APIs including less common HTTP Verbs

Accountabilities

• Implementing well crafted, scalable, and resilient solutions used both by internal / external customers.
• Ownership of the delivery of software into the business.
• Participate in sprint planning to deliver regular iterations, and retrospectives to improve our processes.
• Promote software development best practices.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to clarify ambiguous requirements and taking corrective action for issues in production.
• Perform exploratory work to investigate new technologies that we can leverage to solve business problems, as well as sizing changes to our existing platform.
• Reviewing colleagues’ code submissions, coaching enhancements, encouraging standards and identifying bugs.
• Collaborating with other teams to meet Company objectives.
• Using web content management systems.
• Reporting to Senior Managers & Key Stakeholders.
• Responding to reports of technical problems and working with the team to fix them quickly.
• Collecting and analysing data on website usage to improve performance.
• Any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as reasonably requested.

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