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 Bootstrap – 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 APIs – Experience with queuing technologies such as RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd, and Amazon SQS – An understanding of using full-text search engines i.e. Elasticsearch – A proactive approach to work and ability work well within a team – A keen interest in search marketing, systems development and data Beneficial areas of knowledge: – Microservice architecture and large dataset manipulation – Additional language skills such as Node.JS and Go – Caching technologies, such as Redis and Memcache – Non-relational databases, such as CouchDB and DynamoDB – Container virtualisation technologies such as Docker – Atlassian’s JIRA, Stash, and Bamboo technologies – A basic understanding of Microsoft Excel is advantageous #J-18808-Ljbffr