Senior Technical Developer (Web-Based Tools)

As a Developer, you will work on building and maintaining our wide range of distributed systems – work consuming applications utilising queues and event messaging services, the databases and microservices which supply that information, and the applications that utilise it.

The role is suited to someone with a keen interest in big-data manipulation, business systems, and/or search technology development.

Your core duties will include supporting our Head of Technical Development in undertaking the end-to-end build process, predominantly as part of a project team, across our group’s web-based technology suite. In certain cases, you will be required to solve business problems in isolation and produce related technical specifications.

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing web-based applications using a high coding standard
• Solving business problems through technology
• Helping to identify issues and maintaining existing system stability
• Working to, encouraging, and introducing industry best practices

What you’ll need:

• A proven record of producing high-quality cloud-based application
• Backend skills in PHP, Apache, Linux, and MySQL
• Frontend skills in XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript, using Bootstrapಂದು>
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (i.e. Zend Framework or similar)
• Experience with version control systems, including SVN and GIT
• Experience with cloud technologies, ideally Amazon Web Services
• Experience with building and consuming RESTful silently? APIs
• Experience with queuing technologies such as RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd, and Amazon SQS