PHP Developer (Bristol) – POSITION NOW FILLED
Wired Media are a Bristol based digital agency with a good reputation for technical development who work with a diverse client base on many exciting projects.
We offer a casual working environment but are of course highly professional. We have been building websites for nearly ten years and we are really good at it.
We are also growing and need more people!
So if you are an experienced, ‘switched on’ individual with good development and communication skills, a genuine interest in the web and are able to think for yourself then read on.
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Wired Media are looking for a developer with at least 2 years of commercial, ideally agency based, experience to join our team based in Bristol, UK.
The role would touch on all aspects of the design/development process from meeting clients to discuss specifications, designing systems and of course implementing them. As one of the more experienced members of the team, you would also be expected to spend time assisting other developers with problems, helping manage servers, taking the technical lead on others’ projects as well as actively developing your own.
We work on a wide range of projects – we look after several web-based business/management information systems, several totally bespoke websites/applications, a number of decent sized ecommerce sites based on our internal ecommerce system, and as with any digital agency, the usual helping of content managed websites. Additionally, we’ve got some really interesting projects on the horizon for the next 3-6 months too!
We develop primarily with PHP (5.3) and MySQL and host on Linux with Apache etc, on both dedicated and cloud-based servers.
We have significant projects developed with both the CakePHP and Symfony frameworks, with a preference at present for the latter, and have used a number of pieces of the Zend Framework as well. We’ve recently re-launched an ecommerce system on Magento ecommerce and are currently evaluating it for future use against the alternative of developing our own solution. We have our own in-house CMS system that we continue to use for most of our CMS driven work, but are considering moving to one of the open source systems over the next 12 months.
In addition to websites, we’ve recently worked on some mobile apps, on the iOS, Android and BlackBerry platforms.
Thats a bit about us – now some information about what we are looking for from you.
Candidates should have experience in:
Required Skills/Experience:
PHP 5. We may also consider candidates proficient with another scripting language provided there is some PHP5 knowledge.
At least one relational database, ideally MySQL.
Be competent working with and managing linux based servers.
Subversion, Git or a similar version control system.
XHTML/HTML/CSS
Javascript.
Candidates should also be educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally in a relevant field.
Good communication is vital! Candidates should be able to discuss technical issues in a simple and clear manner, be able to communicate with and understand clients wishes and be confident enough to ask questions and suggest alternatives where something is not possible or clearly wrong. They should pay attention to detail and take care in their work whilst being able to deliver projects efficiently.
Other Useful Skills
Experience with an MVC framework – ideally one of the ones we use! (CakePHP, Symfony)
Any other web programming languages.
Knowledge of other RDBMS’s
jQuery
Windows sysadmin.
Photoshop/Adobe Creative Suite
If you fit this description, you are excited by what we are up to, and you like the sound of working at Wired Media, please apply! Be sure to let us know what your aims and expectations are from work over the next 12-24 months
Interview process
Initially we will sift through CVs and then call candidates for a quick chat
We are really looking for the right person to join us and help us grow. Whilst commercial experience is vital if you don’t match all of the above but still want to do so then you are welcome and we will consider you. But please point out the bits you are not so good at so there are no surprises.
Salary: Negotiable. It really is negotiable. We don’t want to narrow the field by saying 25k or 30k or 35k. We really want to cast the net wide and find the right person and then pay them a salary to suit.
Interested?
Send your CV to jobs@wiredmedia.co.uk