PHP Developer - MVC - Symfony

PHP DEVELOPER - MVC - SYMFONY

PHP Developer required with 5+ years commercial development in implementing and supporting critical web applications, significantly using PHP5+ and related technologies. This role is to be based in London for the first 2-3 weeks and Watford from there onwards.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Experience:

- Excellent knowledge of Object Oriented development principles with PHP5+
- Test driven approach to development working with continuous integration platforms such as Jenkins
- Background in web application development using PHP MVC frameworks (eg Symfony2, Zend, Yii, Laravel or similar but experience with Symfony2 preferred)
- Proven expertise working in a Linux environment with related technologies including Nginx/Apache
- Relational database development experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL or similar)
- Confident working in a distributed development team with Git/SVN/Mercurial (preferably Git)
- Exposure to NoSQL data stores MongoDB/CouchDB and/or Redis/Memcached desirable
- Strong problem solving skills and a broad knowledge of web development techniques and principles.
- The ability to create technical specifications and solutions to meet client and agency requirements, whilst always balancing time and budget.
- The ability to act as a mentor to Developers, give team members day-to-day guidance and conduct regular and relevant team meetings.
- The ability to ensure that processes and procedures involving Developers are documented, kept up-to-date and are being followed appropriately.
- The ability to guide clients on technical and business requirements for a successful project

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

- Exposure to NoSQL data stores MongoDB/CouchDB and/or Redis/Memcached desirable
- Experience with Chef/Puppet/Ansible highly desirable, Performance tuning skills, including refactoring, code profiling and monitoring
- Release management and configuration management experience

ATTRIBUTES

- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
- Experience of working in client facing roles.
- The ability to take part in recruitment activities
- The ability to communicate clearly and succinctly.

Salmon is a global commerce service provider that defines and delivers market-changing commerce strategies and solutions for the world's leading brands.

We have a reputation for using our technical know-how to make things happen. But we are creative too and proud to consult on and deliver award winning solutions for our clients.

With Salmon, clients grow their online revenue and profit. We are trusted to run commerce solutions that generate more than £3 billion in sales each year.

Established in 1989, we have operations in London, New York, Sydney and Beijing. Our clients include
AkzoNobel, Argos, Audi UK, Halfords, TMobile, Ted Baker, Sainsbury's and Selfridges. Visit our website.