Job Title: Senior Developer
Languages: PHP
Term: Contract
Location: London, some ad hoc travel to Haddenham
The company:
Defaqto is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of financial information solutions to providers, intermediaries and consumers. We pride ourselves on our independence, can-do attitude and integrity. We offer a dynamic working environment with emphasis on personal development.
Job purpose:
Reporting to the Head of Digital, the Senior Developer will act as a lead technical resource for all projects relating to the Defaqto web site. This is the perfect opportunity for a LAMP developer to play a key role in creating enabling technology for a successful online and offline marketing company.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and support online applications in a LAMP environment
- Provide PHP programming and functionality for a wide variety of consumer-related websites, intranets, extranets and web-based applications.
- Be comfortable working with team members at all levels and departments within the organisation
- Be willing to share opinions and insights with business leaders on a daily basis in order to affect rapid decision cycles and effective technical solutions to business requirements
- Ensure all code adheres to established quality standards
- Maintain existing site content, when required
- Maintaining an awareness of issues and developments within the industry by reading the industry and financial press and familiarizing yourself with product literature, guides and brochures
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or commensurate work experience
- 3+ years of PHP and MySQL development
- Knowledge of HTML, DHTML/CSS and Javascript
- Ability to translate business requirements into system design
- Ability to partner and work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment
- Strong debugging skills and the ability to easily and quickly read and modify existing code
- Drupal module development experience
The role requires knowledge of:
- PHP 5
- MySQL
- AJAX
- CSS
- XML
- Drupal
Recommended:
- OpenX
- Template engine experience
- JSON
- Tiered cache systems
- Flex
Contact:
Andras Kora, Sr. Developer
Defaqto ltd
Caledonia House
23 Pentonville Road
London N1 9NG
http://www.defaqto.com