SENIOR PHP ENGINEER

Job Description

We require a self-motivated, result-focussed with a positive outlook and a clear focus on high-quality outcomes and customer satisfaction. Someone comfortable working under pressure and a strong planner who delivers within deadlines. Planning, designing and project management tasks include:
• Propose, design and evolve efficient, robust, high performing and secure technology solutions (Front-end, back-end or infrastructure work-related)
• Enhancements to our collection and use of data
• Produce reliable estimations to allow the team delivery on or before your proposed release dates
• Work with the management team to plan both medium-term strategies as well as day-to-day workload to ensure that the ambitious development targets are met within deadlines
• Work with the management team to plan how new functionality will work and how it will be integrated with the existing platform
• Implement testing cases using the chosen testing framework to find, prevent and fix any problems

Department

IT Support,Back Office

Location

United Kingdom

Core Skills (Should Have)

• A highly proficient software developer who can code in OO (JAVA, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript)
• Research and ensure third party applications are properly implemented and selected
• Use Peer-programming and pull request mechanisms to ensure bank-level data security and keep our software? secure
• Use the company’s current suite of tools including Bitbucket (GIT), JIRA (ticketing), Confluence (Wiki), PHP Storm (or similar software). Be prepared to use other tools in the future such as Jenkins and Agile development techniques.
• It is desirable to have a good understanding of system administration, server maintenance and infrastructure design
• Must have a positive outlook and consistently be able to find a solution, even when operating outside the comfort zone, for example learning new languages
• Capable of creating new functionality, platform upgrades, system maintenance and resolving issues

Core Skills (Nice to Have)

• Sys-admin skills including server maintenance and upgrades