Web Developer - Manchester

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Position: Web Developer

Location: Central Manchester

Salary: 25,000 to 27,500 (Per annum)

Job type: Permanent

Client is a research and technology company.

About the Role

Client manages and delivers a range of bespoke development projects for a diverse and expanding range of high profile charities and public service delivery agencies that are focused on assessing the impact of their work and helping to improve its effectiveness.

Successful candidates will work on a range of different projects including enhancing and maintaining our own in house applications as well as other commissioned developments and research projects for our various clients.

The successful candidates will work in close collaboration with other members of the development team as well as senior members of the research and consultancy team in order to develop fresh solutions to client needs.

Responsibilities

The successful candidates will be expected to:

Produce clean, semantic, object-oriented code, with the ability to adopt existing coding styles as appropriate in a range of languages such as PHP or JavaScript

Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure optimization and functionality

Plan and develop core functionality and new features to our flagship system.

Participate in peer code reviews

Give technical assistance to front line support

Work with other team members to enhance and evolve existing and new products

Design and document code so other developers can understand and contribute to it

Identify scope, key requirements, specification, creative approach and development methodology for projects

Developing front and back-end systems

Researching and incorporating 3rd Party products, frameworks and services to enhance our own applications

Take part in Hackathons

Client is a small, fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans. Everyone in the team works flexibly and has the opportunity to take on responsibilities outside of their role to support the business and the team

Essential experience

Programming Languages: PHP5/7, Native JavaScript

Knowledge of object orientation and design patterns

Ability to consider the impact of code updates to existing systems

HTML/CSS/JS/AJAX - Knowledge of web standards and browser compatibility issues, tableless layout and design

Databases MySQL/MariaDB

Frameworks/libraries jQuery, Bootstrap

Apache and Linux

Version Control Systems such as Subversion and Git

Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills

BSc Hons. Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent qualification / experience

Flow Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams

A strong interest and desire to stay up to date with new trends and advancements in web development / technology

Ability to manage a complex range of tasks and meet deadlines

A logical approach to problem solving

At least 2 years experience in developing web applications

Desirable Skills

Release processes such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Agile

Familiarity with PHP Frameworks i.e. (Zend, Laravel, CodeIgniter)

Programming Languages Java, LINUX/UNIX BASH and PERL

Understanding of backend linux systems admin

Databases MongoDB, Postgres, SQLite

Web Server Platforms Node.js, Tomcat

Website CMS Frameworks WordPress, Drupal

Web Services REST/SOAP

Knowledge of SSO / OAuth

Micro-services fundamentals

Database design, development, and optimization

Mobile App development, Android, iOS, PhoneGap

Familiarity with AWS and Cloud Servers

JavaScript Frameworks such as Angular-js

Experience with Cloud Computing

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Working hours: 9-5

Benefits:

Salary sacrifice schemes

Pension

Looking into possible gym membership

Client is able to refer candidates to healthcare schemes, but dont offer private healthcare.

Theres a little bit of flexibility on the top end of salary, but only for a superstar candidate.

1st of September start at the latest, the earlier the better.

Technical test required before interview

KEY SKILLS:

PHP5/7, Native JavaScript

If you have further inquiries about this role, please dont hesitate to contact our office at: 020 3371 7671