Senior Back End Developer

Overview

Specialist role Developer

Summary of the work 

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 the business critical application (case management system hosted on AWS) is iterated and improved via user first principles

Latest start date August 2016

Expected contract length 12 month initial contract length with the option for extension

Region East Midlands

Organisation the work is for Office of the Public Guardian

About the work

Who the specialist will work with 

Developer is expected to work with Product Manager, WebOps team, Front End Developers, User Researcher and UX Designer

What the specialist will work on 

OPG need a back-end developer 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 the business critical application (Sirius - a custom-built, open source case management system hosted on AWS) is iterated and improved via user first principles

Work setup

Address where the work will take place Nottingham at least 3 days a week

Working arrangements Expected to work onsite at least 3 days a week, with the option to work remotely for 2 days a week

Security clearance Baseline security clearance e.g. DBS or Disclosure Scotland National Security Clearance may also be required once onsite

Skills and experience

Essential skills and experience 

• 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
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
• Experience of Continuous integration (preferably with Jenkins)

Nice-to-have skills and experience 

• Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Experience of BDD and automated user acceptance testing using tools such as Cucumber, Behat and Webdriver
• Experience of Elasticsearch
• Experience of Docker
• Act as a “tech lead” on complex projects, providing support for product and delivery management and pragmatically weighing the complexities involved against the need to act
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage
• Experience of working with JavaScript libraries to produce data visualisations
• Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.