We are now looking for a senior developer to help drive the development of the new version of our software suite that will drive our communities to work from out Amersham office.

The successful candidate must be able to work as part of a team and independently, have the ability to work with an analytical, problem solving approach, show ability to deliver projects within specified timeframes and have 5-10 years experience.

Essential areas of skills/experience

• PHP 5 programming experience, both in structured and object oriented development styles.
• Experienced writing/maintaining jQuery / javascript / MooTools / Prototype UI scripts, using AJAX
• Confident writing SQL for MySQL 5 / PostgreSQL 8 platforms, via mysql and psql client command line tools.
• Experience writing/maintaining plugins/components/modules for Joomla (or similar CMS's such as Drupal, Xoops, Wordpress, MT)
• Experienced using source revision control system such as GIT, to work on an application with multiple concurrent branches.
• Experienced developing in a LAMP environment, (Linux, Preferably RHEL or Centos / Apache 2 / MySQL 5 / MemCache)

Preferably (coding experience with):

• PostgreSQL
• An understanding of frontend development using CSS/XHTML and template engines such as Warp & Smarty
• Linux Command Line tools; bash, patch, diff, tofrodos, ViM, git
• Familiar coding a multi-layered application with Client/Server layers, communicating with XMLRPC, Soap or similar
• MediaWiki, vBulletin, experience would be an asset
• Shell scripting experience would be useful

Nice to haves are familiarity with the following tools

• A common development environment such as Eclipse / Net Beans / ViM
• Zen or similar PHP development/debugging tool
• MySQL Enterprise tools
• VmWare

Candidates must have experience delivering high profile projects on ‘Internet’ timescales and must be able to point to Web 2.0 projects (preferably Social Media) where he/she has had significant input on its design and development.  We are a fast growing company and are, ideally, looking for an experienced developer who would like to grow into team leadership/development management.

Besides through interviews prospective candidates will be tested on the skills listed here in, particularly PHP Syntax, ability to follow a spec and ability to understand, bug fix and extend existing code.

We are now looking for a senior developer to help drive the development of the new version of our software suite that will drive our communities to work from out Amersham office.

The successful candidate must be able to work as part of a team and independently, have the ability to work with an analytical, problem solving approach, show ability to deliver projects within specified timeframes and have 3-5 years experience.

Essential areas of skills/experience

• PHP 5 programming experience, both in structured and object oriented development styles.
• Experienced writing/maintaining jQuery / javascript / MooTools / Prototype UI scripts, using AJAX
• Confident writing SQL for MySQL 5 / PostgreSQL 8 platforms, via mysql and psql client command line tools.
• Experience writing/maintaining plugins/components/modules for Joomla (or similar CMS's such as Drupal, Xoops, Wordpress, MT)
• Experienced using source revision control system such as GIT, to work on an application with multiple concurrent branches.
• Experienced developing in a LAMP environment, (Linux, Preferably RHEL or Centos / Apache 2 / MySQL 5 / MemCache)

Preferably (coding experience with):

• PostgreSQL
• An understanding of frontend development using CSS/XHTML and template engines such as Warp & Smarty
• Linux Command Line tools; bash, patch, diff, tofrodos, ViM, git
• Familiar coding a multi-layered application with Client/Server layers, communicating with XMLRPC, Soap or similar
• MediaWiki, vBulletin, experience would be an asset
• Shell scripting experience would be useful

Nice to haves are familiarity with the following tools

• A common development environment such as Eclipse / Net Beans / ViM
• Zen or similar PHP development/debugging tool
• MySQL Enterprise tools
• VmWare

Candidates must have experience delivering high profile projects on ‘Internet’ timescales and must be able to point to Web 2.0 projects (preferably Social Media) where he/she has had significant input on its design and development.

Besides through interviews prospective candidates will be tested on the skills listed here in, particularly PHP Syntax, ability to follow a spec and ability to understand, bug fix and extend existing code.