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Senior Backend Developer

Location: York

Salary: £40,000

Castle IT division are looking for an experienced backend developer to help drive a varied of key projects for a large forward thinking company with an extensive IT division. We are looking for someone with a passion for technology, with a drive to create exciting, innovate products. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Designing and building new features and services
• Developing new REST APIs

• Writing unit tests to ensure high code coverage

• Reviewing team members code to ensure a high-standard

• Mentoring and supporting other team members

• Estimating time and planning for implementation

• Suggesting and investigating alternative technologies to solve business issues

• Monitoring traffic and reviewing server performance

• Ensuring documentation is correct and up-to-date

• Training and knowledge transfer to the team

• Leading the team to ensure standards and processes are met and followed

• Maintaining the database systems

• Developing the Continuous Integration system

• Create and maintain server configurations and provisioning

• Debugging and resolving bugs and performance issues

Skill and Experience 

We are looking for someone with a strong background in Backend development, with a minimum of 3-4 years commercial experiences with the following skill sets:

• Solid development experience in a commercial environment.
• Solid understanding of modern PHP development.

• Experience with PHP frameworks; preferably Symfony or Laravel

• Commercial experience with version control in a team environment

• Ability to approach existing code, grasp its purpose and make changes confidently

• Experience with writing unit & integration tests

• Knowledge of coding standards and their application

• Experience with LAMP stack architecture, particularly in a cloud environment

• Experience with Docker & Ansible

• Continuous integration

• Mentoring a team

• Security conscious approach to development

• Understanding of caching and cache strategies

Experience with any of these technologies would also be a bonus:

• Elasticsearch/Elastic Stack
• MongoDB

• RabbitMQ

• Redis

• AWS

• Git

• Jenkins

• SupervisorD

Benefits

There are varied of benefits including:

- 28 days holiday including bank holidays

- Flexitime package

- free on-site gym

- Incremental holiday bonus scheme - up to 5 days extra

- Staff discount scheme

- Free work wear provided

- Free staff nights out and events 

- On site creche available 

- Free hot drinks 

If you are interested in this role or would like more information please do call Castle on 01723 500643 or send your CV to sophie@castle-employment.co.uk