Mid-Level PHP Developer

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Mid Level PHP Developer

SB Media Group is looking for a mid-level PHP developer to join our team, developing and improving our user-facing web applications and in-house reporting and management platforms. This role will require your assistance in all stages of the development process from design through to post-deployment, seeing immediate results.

Responsibilities/Job Roles

• Develop large scale web applications for desktop and mobile
• Write front- and back-end code and design databases
• Actively participate in the development process, from design to deployment and support
• Contribute to our in-house monitoring and reporting platforms
• Proactively seek to optimise our applications and web pages, improving bottlenecks and performance
• Review data and logs to debug problems and improve user experience
• Integrate third party API’s and expanding our own API library
• Support in house teams with MySQL report generation and tech solutions
• As we are a 24/7 business, you may be called upon, outside of office hours, to support critical issues, but this is not common

Personal Qualities and Skills

• Very strong communication
• Must be able to discuss projects and problems with non-technical teams, internally and externally
• Confidence to make decisions
• Working at this level means taking ideas and deciding the best way to implement them
• Keen and able to work individually, as well as part of a team
• Hybrid working requires the ability to work on your own initiative
• Self-sufficiency is key to being given more responsibilities as the role progresses
• Some projects require collaboration between both technical and non-technical teams

Required Experience, Knowledge, and Skills

• Minimum 3 professional experience as PHP web developer
• Strong Object-Oriented PHP 5 and 7
• Unit Testing
• ORM
• Strong MySQL
• Database design
• Complex queries
• Optimising queries
• HTML/CSS/Javascript
• Bootstrap, Sass
• Ajax
• JQuery
• Confidence in using the *nix console environment
• Tail, grep, awk, sed, vi
• Git
• Good internet technology background
• Desire to continue to learn, solve problems and find innovative solutions

Desired Experience, Knowledge, and Skills

- Templating engine experience, such as Blade, Twig, or Smarty - Experience in connecting with external API’s - Symfony, CodeIgniter - Test Driven Development

Office benefits include (in case of Hybrid Role):

- Friendly and welcoming office environment with relaxed dress code, fitted kitchen, Sage coffee machine, and Sonos throughout - Private, secure parking, right outside the office - Beautiful countryside location, ideal for lunchtime walks - Patio/garden area with BBQ for lunch and meetings in the sun - On site gym, fully equipped for cardio (Concept 2 Bike Erg and Rower) and weights (kettlebells, dumbbells, barbells, and squat rack)

SB Media Group is a performance marketing company that has been operating in this sector since 2012. As a leader in the field, we maintain, and continue to develop, a portfolio of web and mobile applications, as well as the marketing, tracking, and reporting platforms and tools to allow us to maintain our success and work towards our goals of expanding into new countries.