PHP Developer - Assanka (recently acquired by FT)

PHP Developer - Assanka (recently acquired by FT)

Location: West London (W12) , West London View map Salary: Attractive Basic + Benefits + bonus Date posted: 31/03/2012 16:01 Job type:Permanent Company: Financial Times Contact: Michelle Flynn Ref: Totaljobs/APHP Job ID: 53200703

About us:-

Assanka builds award winning web applications, with new ideas for delivering the very best the internet can offer.

Were a software company that surprises our clients all the time.

We are the first software company in the UK to achieve Zend-certification for all our PHP developers. This gives you the confidence of knowing that our skills have been independently verified by Zend, the company that created PHP. We continue to have an active certification programme.

The role:-

Join us as a PHP developer to build great websites and web applications for a wid e variety of platforms and audiences. Our sites have previously won three Webby awards, and most recently were scored a best mobile site award from the Association of Online Publishers. Youll be writing and working with PHP based web applications, using a variety of frameworks, both well known and home grown, to create the best solutions we can.

Responsibilities:

Software development in PHP

Integrating with associated technologies: databases, caches, message queues, APIs, SMS and Email, test frameworks, and much more.

Templates and some user interface development, working with UX engineers on larger projects

Testing, debugging and troubleshooting

Client liaison and training

Required skills

PHP 5

MySQL 5 (to expert level, including sub queries, unions, and optimising for multi-million row record sets)

HTML5 and CSS

Knowledge of a variety of software design patterns

Working knowledge of Linux command line tools and version control concepts

Excellent quality of written and spoken English

Desirable skills

JavaScript

Experience with jQuery

Usability and user experience design

Knowledge of a variety of PHP frameworks (ie. more than one).

Knowledge of the Baazar VCS

Unnecessary/undesirable skills

Adobe flash

.net or any other Microsoft technology

Specialism in any one specific PHP framework

***You MUST be eligible to live and work in the UK to be considered for this position

You should also be able to attend interview in london within the next couple of weeks***