Key words - PHP Developer, MVC, TDD, MySQL, Javascript, Agile, Automated Deployment.

I have an excellent opportunity for an experienced senior PHP developer to join one of London's leading agile development agencies. As a senior PHP developer your primary focus will be to architect, develop and support the PHP back‐end for sites and apps across a range of devices and platforms. Technical excellence in LAMP technologies supported by 5 years commercial experience is essential to the role. With your wealth of PHP experience you'll be an advocate for writing clean, readable, maintainable code in collaboration with other multi-disciplinary developers. In order to be considered for this Senior PHP developer role you must have a good understanding of Agile practices, be able to accurately scope and estimate the work of your team and identify and act
upon risks to projects.

Senior PHP Developer - Key Skills
* Mastery of object‐oriented PHP 5 within a MVC framework (CodeIgniter/Kohana experience preferred)
* MySQL Server with pure SQL and ORMs e.g. PHP ActiveRecord
* Linux and Apache sys‐admin skills, comfortable working in Terminal
* Deep understanding of architecture for scalable web applications, security, cloud based servers, load balancing etc.
* Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)
* Version control with Subversion and Git
* Automated deployment with Capistrano (or similar)
* JavaScript including JQuery and AJAX techniques
* Standards‐compliant XHTML and CSS (HTML 5 and CSS3 a bonus)
* Knowledge of W3C Accessibility standards, cross browser compliance and testing
* Recent experience developing with the Facebook platform e.g. Social Plugins, Apps, Open Graph
* Additional skills in the following areas a big plus: Ruby on Rails, Silverstripe CMS, NodeJS, Objective‐C foriOS or Java for Android

You will be joining one of the most awarded Agile development agencies in London with projects and a client list to die for. On a day to day basis you will be collaborating with outstanding PHP, Interface, IOS and Javascript development experts in a collaborative technically innovative environment.
Great career development, training and benefits will be heaped upon the successful Senior PHP developer so if you are interested in finding out more apply today to take your PHP career to the next level.

Please note that due to exceptionally high levels of response, we are only able to get back to those applicants who have been successful.