As a Developer, you will work on building and maintaining our wide range of distributed systems – work consuming applications utilising queues and event messaging services, the databases and microservices which supply that information, and the applications that utilise it.
The role is suited to someone with a keen interest in big-data manipulation, business systems, and/or search technology development.
Your core duties will include supporting our Head of Technical Development in undertaking the end-to-end build process, predominantly as part of a project team, across our group’s web-based technology suite. In certain cases, you will be required to solve business problems in isolation and produce related technical specifications.
What you’ll be doing:
– Developing web-based applications using a high coding standard
– Solving business problems through technology
– Helping to identify issues and maintaining existing system stability
– Working to, encouraging, and introducing industry best practices
What you’ll need:
– A proven record of producing high-quality cloud-based application
– Backend skills in PHP, Apache, Linux, and MySQL
– Frontend skills in XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript, using Bootstrap
– Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (i.e. Zend Framework or similar)
– Experience with version control systems, including SVN and GIT
– Experience with cloud technologies, ideally Amazon Web Services
– Experience with building and consuming RESTful APIs
– Experience with queuing technologies such as RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd, and Amazon SQS
– An understanding of using full-text search engines i.e. Elasticsearch
– A proactive approach to work and ability work well within a team
– A keen interest in search marketing, systems development and data
Beneficial areas of knowledge:
– Microservice architecture and large dataset manipulation
– Additional language skills such as Node.JS and Go
– Caching technologies, such as Redis and Memcache
– Non-relational databases, such as CouchDB and DynamoDB
– Container virtualisation technologies such as Docker
– Atlassian’s JIRA, Stash, and Bamboo technologies
– A basic understanding of Microsoft Excel is advantageous
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