Senior Back End Developer

Senior Back End Developer required to work with the existing team of PHP Zend Framework 2 devs to update and maintain existing functionality and produce new features to ensure that the business critical application (case management system hosted on AWS) is iterated and improved via user first principles.

Requirements

• 3+ Years acting as a senior developer in a strong Object Orientated PHP environment
• Experience building server-side web applications and detailed knowledge of PHP.
• Experience of Doctrine and Doctrine migrations.
• Knowledge of relational and nonrelational database systems (particularly PostgreSQL)
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, highly optimised and clear code.
• Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behaviour and performance.
• Working within an agile environment.
• Experience working on technical projects within a team.
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
• Knowledge of the Git version control system
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
• Experience of Continuous integration (preferably with Jenkins)

Benefits

• 12 month initial contract length with the option for extension
• Baseline security clearance e.g. DBS or Disclosure Scotland National Security Clearance may also be required once onsite