Lead PHP Developer

Creative & Development

Lead PHP Developer

Reigate, UK

Salary: £Competitive

The Role

Jellyfish is looking for a Lead PHP Developer to work within our UK office. If you enjoy coding, sharing ideas and love being part of a collaborative team within a growing international agency, then this is the role for you.

Jellyfish is a diverse digital marketing agency which means you’ll work on anything from simple content managed websites to advanced mobile apps and lead generation projects.

Day to day you’ll be working with our dedicated Project Management team and internal studio at our head office here in Reigate. You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining different applications and sites for our external clients and several Jellyfish-owned products and services. We add to these all the time so there’ll always be new challenges to work with.

Like the sound of us? And are you someone who can bring fresh ideas, fizzing energy and a hands-on can-do attitude to where we work (and how we work?)

If so, we should be talking.

Before we do, take a look at the key skills we’re looking for. If it still sounds like the role is made for you, then get in touch today.

Responsibilities

Maintain a good standard of coding and adhere to the same conventions as the rest of the team
Leave code better than you found it (and fully commented)
Test your code, be it client or server-side
Be willing to take ownership of projects and to present your proposed solutions to the wider team to non-technical staff
Jellyfish developers tend to work in a DevOps capacity and you will be expected to reach a degree of competency in maintaining your own development server and migrating work in progress to UAT/testing servers
Ability to perform effectively to tight deadlines, work well both independently and as part of a team
A proactive attitude to problem solving and an understanding of the role of development in a creative environment
Be willing to work in a research capacity – to find and test and critically review open-source frameworks and technologies
Open, honest and direct, is comfortable in giving and receiving constructive feedback
Mentor junior developers and ensure they become good team members with good communication and that they follow code standards
Effectively conduct meetings and code reviews and mentor developers
Conduct staff reviews and daily scrums
Ensure staff are tracking their time correctly and following employee guidelines

Experience Required

Skill Requirements

Substantial experience of PHP
Knowledge of PSR standards

Experience with back end frameworks and/or content management systems such as:

Laravel / Lumen
CodeIgniter
WordPress
Drupal
Joomla
Magento
Prior management experience

Ability to scope a project based on a technical brief and work with the DevOps team to provide a detailed project plan including:

Data Flow Diagrams for process flow
Database Schemas
Recommended software / architecture
Suggested tools / software
Scalable environment architecture suggestions
Load balancing / caching suggestions
Prior experience in mentoring small teams and providing technical documentation
Experience with JavaScript (APIs / jQuery / AngularJS) a bonus
Robust experience with Linux command line, configuration, installation, maintenance and monitoring.
Experience with Git / GitHub

Robust experience with Databases or Key-Value stores (MySQL / Maria DB / MongoDB) including command line usage