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Job title: PHP Developer

Location: Surrey

Salary: Up to £75k per annum plus bonus

My prestigious client services over 500 blue chip companies testing over 3 million web pages everyday!

They are on the lookout for an experienced PHP Developer with a passion for good development practices, new technology and the internet.

You’ll be working in a fun and challenging environment using the latest technologies working on a variety of exciting projects!

Required skills:

• Solid experience with PHP (procedural and OOP), JavaScript, JQuery (and/or other client-side frameworks)
• Good working knowledge and understanding of relational databases (MySQL preferred)
• Sound knowledge of open-source object-oriented development, design patterns and coding best practices
• Experience of writing unit tests and testing frameworks (e.g. PHPUnit)
• Good working knowledge of MVC frameworks
• Good working knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Experience of optimising performance (server- and/or client-side)
• Knowledge of Agile, Lean and XP development practices
• Good knowledge of Linux and Open Source technologies

Desirable skills

• Good working knowledge of at least one PHP framework (Zend, Symfony, Phalcon, Yii, etc.)
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive design
• Working knowledge of continuous integration, build and configuration management systems, especially Jenkins, Puppet/Chef, etc.
• Knowledge/experience of TDD and BDD
• Knowledge/experience of automated functional testing (e.g. Selenium)
• Experience of working with large data sets
• Experience of working with legacy codebases and dealing with technical debt

This is truly an opportunity not to be missed working for a market leader!

To progress an application, please apply with your CV instantly.