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Current Vacancies
Lead PHP Developer
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- Camden
- Salary
- Competitive dependant on experience and skills.
- Expires
- 17 Mar
Company: FourFour Online Limited
Position: Lead PHP Developer – dance / electronic music download store (DJDownload.com)
DJdownload.com, an innovative online dance music download retail platform is looking to recruit an experienced PHP programmer to fill a full time position in our London offices
Role description:
Lead technical web developer responsible for the development and enhancement of new and existing Web applications developed in OO PHP and MYSQL. We are looking for someone who is motivated, enthusiastic and innovative with a decent understanding of project management principles and disciplines.
Skills:
For your application to be considered, you will need to have at least 2 years commercial experience with the following:
- Object-oriented PHP
- MYSQL
- LINUX
- XML based API
- Smarty template engine
- HTML/CSS/Java Script
- Coding and maintaining a high traffic, scalable website.
- User oriented development
Experience:
As well as the core skills, we would require the individual to have a good deal of experience in the following key disciplines:
- Project / Team leadership
- Agile software development
- Ajax
- XHTML
- Flash
- Maintaining Linux servers
Desirable:
A knowledge of the following disciplines is not essential, but would be highly advantageous:
- Experience with SOLR / Lucene search.
- Facebook/Twitter Application Development
- Experience working on high-volume PHP websites
- Experience with MVC framework
- Subversion / Trac
- Memcached
- Web services and syndication
- CruiseControl/Ant builds
Education and qualifications:
Honours degree level education in relevant discipline or equivalent demonstrated knowledge.
This is a position where you will be able to contribute to the development of a rapidly expanding company and design and implement Web based systems from the ground up. Key to the role is the development of an entirely new version of our current retail offering. Although management have a very clear idea of what they would like the site to do, they will not be prescriptive as to how it should be done and therefore need a very creative, innovative and hard working individual who can get the job done. The initial redevelopment will require other junior developers so you will need to know how to manage a team of 2-3 developers. If you have the skills required, are a self-starter and are looking for a career boosting challenge then please do not delay in applying for this position.
A love of music is also an advantage!
Only candidates required for interview will be contacted.
- To apply
- Email jobs@djdownload.com
Lead PHP Developer based in Shoreditch
- Type
- full-time contract to perm
- Location
- Shoreditch, London
- Salary
- £30 - 40k
Shoreditch based web application company, Byng Systems, is looking for a Lead PHP Developer to take on a lead programming role on business and enterprise web application products. Candidates must be proficient in object-oriented and ORM PHP development with evidence of previous experience of working in team environment and experience in LAMP technologies.
- Read more and apply
- http://www.byng-systems.com/blog/2009/12/24/lead-php-developer-to-be-based-in-shoreditch
Developer
- Type
- full-time
- Location
- Clerkenwell
- Expires
- 17 Mar
Holler is a digital agency and have offices in London and Sydney. We enable brands to realise their ambitions through a digital entertainment strategy. We create and deliver engaging platforms and content and make brands famous by creating and inspiring a following. Our clients include BBC, Channel 4, Kickers, Lacoste, Red Bull, Sky One, and Virgin Television.
We're looking for a super bright spark to join our production team in London as a full-time, junior/mid-weight developer. Specifically, someone with a year or two's experience in two or more of the following technologies:
- Object Oriented PHP & MySQL
- Semantic (X)HTML & CSS
- Unobtrusive JavaScript, AJAX and DOM Scripting
- Adobe Flash
Any experience with the following tools and technology is desirable, but by no means essential:
- PHP Framework experience (one of Symfony, Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter)
- JavaScript Frameworks (one of MooTools, Prototype, jQuery)
- Webservice/API experience (e.g. Facebook, Google Maps)
- SCM with Subversion or CVS
Our ideal candidate:
- gets a kick out of seeking out and applying cool technology to great ideas
- has a head for solving problems, and thrives on it
- has an understanding of how digital production works in an agency environment
What's in it for you?
- A decent salary based on your skills and experience
- You get to work in one of the UK's leading digital creative agencies
- The chance to learn new stuff, produce work to be proud of, and fill in the gaps in your skill-set
- The opportunity make your own mark on award-winning ideas
- Send your CV to
- techjobs@holler.co.uk
- Reporting to
- Technical Director and Technical Lead
- Start date
- Immediate
- Interview format
- Initial interview and technical test, selected applicants called back for a second interview.
Web Developer
- Type
- full-time
- Location
- London
- Expires
- 17 Mar
TrustedPlaces Overview
TrustedPlaces is an award-winning local startup, based in London and Tel Aviv. Trustedplaces.com is a local review community site where users discover and recommend local businesses such as restaurants, bars, pubs, gyms, shops and much more. Since 2009 the company also offers an enterprise, white-label solution that enables publishers to enjoy the benefits of TrustedPlaces on their own platform. The company is venture backed by HOWZAT Media and a small number of business angels with strong technology and consumer web backgrounds.
The Role
We already have some amazing (or so we think) guys working on our core product. We’re now looking for a person to join the team in London and help with our growing commitments and ambitious product roadmap. Apart from technical skills, we’re looking for a person who enjoys taking ownership of his/her work and managing themselves; can communicate with our increasing number of enterprise clients, but above all someone who is fun to work with and who would relish the opportunity to join a small, passionate and dedicated team.
Here are some of the core technical skills we’re after:
- Experience with development of scalable web sites using PHP and advanced frameworks. Python, Java experience is a plus
- Relational database skills are a must and it’d be great if you have experience with enterprise level databases
- HTML, Javascript frameworks (JQuery)
- Sys admin skills are a plus. You don’t have to be a master, but knowing your way around Apache & Linux would help
- Experience with the iPhone SDK and Objective C is a plus
- Excellent software architecture skills and obsessive compulsion about clean, well structure code
Benefits
- Competitive, negotiable salary that matches your experience
- Equity options
- Relaxed, fun environment where the limits to the responsibilities and roles you can take on, are your ambition and drive
We don’t care if you’ve been in a working environment for 3-10 years or if you’ve just graduated from university. We’re more interested in attitude and a proven passion for the web. You’ve ideally demonstrated both of these in your previous work or side projects you’ve done.
- To apply
- If you believe you fit the role, please send an email to sokratis@trustedplaces.com and let us know why you’d be the ideal person for the job. No agencies please.
PHP developer
- Type
- Full time
- Salary
- £25 – £35k per annum depending on experience
- Location
- Putney, London
- Expires
- 17 Mar
About us
Zoombu is a multi-modal travel search engine that finds the best way to travel from your home to your destination. Our online search service finds thousands of routes across multiple modes of transportation and picks out the cheapest, quickest or most carbon friendly end-to-end route.
Our company is small, dynamic and is growing fast. We were a Seedcamp finalist in 2008, voted ‘Best Travel Start-up 2009’ at the Eye for Travel Summit and a winner of the Saïd Business School Venture Fund competition 2009.
Role and responsibilities
Our technical team is always working on very hard problems from optimizing search algorithms, to visualization and manipulation of results. We are looking for a full time developer to join our team and work on the web interface to the search engine. This will include, but not be limited to:
- Building new UI features (database right through to ajax)
- Implementation of new designs and layouts
- Optimization, debugging, and refactoring of existing front end code
- Support of SEO activities
Technical skills
Essential
- Excellent working knowledge of PHP/MySQL and web application development
- A minimum of 2 years commercial experience in PHP development
- High level of confidence in JS/CSS/HTML
- Strong academic record, a graduate in a science or technology subject
Advantageous
- Zend Framework
- PHP Unit
- jQuery
- Google Maps API
- MySQL: schema and query optimization
- SCRUM, TDD, and continuous integration
Personal attributes sought:
- High degree of independence and self-sufficiency
- Ability to ‘hit the ground running’
- Learns new technologies quickly
- Enjoys solving very hard technical problems
- Excellent communication and can work well within a small team
- Ability to plan time, and estimate duration of tasks
- Thorough and conscientious attitude to pieces of work
- To apply
- For more details and to submit an application (CV + brief covering note) please email careers@zoombu.co.uk. No recruitment agencies please.
