PHP Developer - 3-Month Contract - Cloud-Based Retail Software - Brist

PHP DEVELOPER - 3-MONTH CONTRACT - CLOUD-BASED RETAIL SOFTWARE - BRISTOL, SOUTH WEST

Salary: Maximum £350 per day

Location: Bristol, South West (Gloucestershire and Somerset)

THE COMPANY AND SITUATION:

A very exciting and one of the fastest-growing providers of an innovative, unique, cloud-based software offering to the retail sector are seeking a sociable PHP Developer to join a very friendly multi-skilled Agile development team!

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

The following experience and attributes are essential for this role:

- A minimum of 5 years of software development experience in PHP version 5
- A relevant degree class 2:1 or above (but if you're really good at PHP, we'll let you off with a 2:2!)
- Experience of a unit testing framework
- RDBMS experience (MySQL is favourite here, but any RBD is fine)
- SQL experience
- Linux experience

Please note the above criteria are essential - you require all of the above points to be eligible for this role.

Desirable, but not essential is experience in any of the following:

Integrating with RESTful web services layer
Agile (Scrum or XP)
Modern web technologies and frameworks such as Zend 1, Spring or jQuery
Distributed/grid data layers such as Hazelcast
Queuing technologies such as ActiveMQ
Integrating with third-parties over API (for example eBay, Amazon, Magento, Shopify)

THE OPPORTUNITY:

For those who really excel in this role, there is a genuine prospect of the role reverting to a permanent position, if that is something you are seeking. If so, this is one of fastest-growing cloud software companies in Europe, therefore the career potential here is huge, with a culture of promoting from within.

Existing contractors here have found the projects very interesting and have liked the teams they are working with!

For technical staff, the attraction here is the technology they use in-house. Because they are a relatively new and growing company, they are getting to use a lot of the newest and latest software before other companies generally do. Some examples of this are Zend; connectors for eBay, Amazon, Magento and Shopify; Hazelcast with ActiveMQ and RESTful web services. Consequently, there is also still scope to change and mould the way the technology team grows: They are not yet set in their ways as can be the case in other long-established companies.

Additionally, this is an opportunity to work with a great bunch of sociable people - this is not your typical tech company! It's important that you're sociable because they want people who will join in with their regular social activities, at least once a week and often more!

As their VP of sales put it: We have the San Francisco-style, fast-paced, tech start-up culture in sunny Bristol!