Senior Back End Developers

TEaM Consulting ,
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Company Description Overview Specialist role Developer Summary of the work OPG need 2 back-end developers to work with existing team of PHP Symfony 2 devs to update and maintain existing functionality and produce new features to ensure that a digital, public-facing service is iterated and improved via user first principles. Suppliers must be willing to provide evidence of essential criteria Latest start date September Expected contract length initially 12 month contract Region East Midlands Organisation the work is for Office of the Public Guardian Job Description About the work Who the specialist will work with Working alongside a product owner, user researcher, user interface expert and a senior front end developer, existing symfony 2 devs What the specialist will work on OPG need 2 back-end developers to work with the existing team of PHP Symfony 2 devs to update and maintain existing functionality and produce new features to ensure that a digital, public-facing service is iterated and improved via user first principles. This role is based primarily in Nottingham, but may involve some travel between Birmingham and London. Some colocation is required but flexible/home working options are available. Work setup Address where the work will take place This role is based primarily in Nottingham, but may involve some travel between Birmingham and London. Some colocation is required but flexible/home working options are available. Working arrangements onsite a minimum of 3 days a week, preferably in the Nottingham office, but with flexibility to work from other locations for the rest of the week including home-working Security clearance Baseline security clearance e.g. DBS or Disclosure Scotland will be required initially, but applicants must be willing to submit to National Security Clearance. Qualifications Skills and experience Essential skills and experience * 3+ Years acting as a senior developer in a strong Object Orientated PHP environment. * Experience building server-side web applications and detailed knowledge of PHP. * Good knowledge of Symfony 2 * Experience with PHPUnit tests and mocking objects * Experience of Doctrine 2 and Doctrine migrations. * Knowledge of relational databases systems (particularly PostgreSQL) * Outstanding ability to develop efficient, highly optimised and clear code. * Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behaviour and performance. * Working within an agile environment. * Knowledge of the Git version control system * Experience of Continuous integration (preferably with Jenkins) Nice-to-have skills and experience * Experience of BDD and automated user acceptance testing Behat 3. * Experience of Docker used for local development and staging environment. * Act as a "tech lead" on complex projects, providing support for product and delivery management and pragmatically weighing the complexities involved against the need to act * Experience of mentoring or helping colleagues optimise their code * System administration and configuration management skills * Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage * Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs * Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage * Experience with Mockery mocking framework, JMS serialiser library Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Qualifications: Skills and experience Essential skills and experience 3+ Years acting as a senior developer in a strong Object Orientated PHP environment. Experience building server-side web applications and detailed knowledge of PHP. Good knowledge of Symfony 2 Experience with PHPUnit tests and mocking objects Experience of Doctrine 2 and Doctrine migrations. Knowledge of relational databases systems (particularly PostgreSQL) Outstanding ability to develop efficient, highly optimised and clear code. Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behaviour and performance. Working within an agile environment. Knowledge of the Git version control system Experience of Continuous integration (preferably with Jenkins) Nice-to-have skills and experience Experience of BDD and automated user acceptance testing Behat 3. Experience of Docker used for local development and staging environment. Act as a "tech lead" on complex projects, providing support for product and delivery management and pragmatically weighing the complexities involved against the need to act Experience of mentoring or helping colleagues optimise their code System administration and configuration management skills Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage Experience with Mockery mocking framework, JMS se

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