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We at Sankara are delighted to be helping them find their latest hire.

 

Using your existing knowledge of PHP and core Object Oriented fundamentals you will collaborate with our existing development and design teams to build highly functional web applications using WordPress, and support our product development. You will have 3 years + experience in programming, be familiar with popular patterns and practices such as MVC and have worked with web services to achieve integration with 3rd party systems. You will also be proficient in JavaScript and JQuery with any HTML + CSS knowledge considered a bonus.

Role Requirements
General programming development responsibilities will consist of

• Working with PHP to develop custom components for Wordpress web sites
• Use Source control tools to manage versions (GitHub)
• Working with existing web applications to build additional functionality.
• Configure and work with MySQL Databases.
• Ability to configure development environments (install MySQL, Apache etc).

Advantageous Skills/Knowledge includes:

• Knowledge of popular OO design patterns and practices
• Strong exposure to MVC frameworks.
• Experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel or CodeIgniter.
• Experience with JavaScript and JQuery.
• Experience with HTML + CSS.
• Familiarity with deploying to cloud hosting environments such as Windows Azure or AWS.

Personal Qualities

• Works well under pressure and can work to occasional tight deadlines.
• Fantastic communication skills, Friendly and approachable.
• Self-motivated and is genuinely excited by technology.
• A commitment to delivering high quality, bug free applications.
• Keen interest in increasing knowledge and skills around Application Development, associated technologies and general programming.
• A strong work ethic and ‘can-do’ problem solving attitude

Minimum Skills Required

• 3+ years’ experience with the standard web development toolbox, including PHP, MySQL and WordPress.
• Experience in working on small to large web development projects.
• Experience with Source Control systems.
• Attention to detail and able to produce high quality work

So if you are prepared to join this exciting company where you will be working on massive content driven platforms and challenged with their bleeding edge technologies.

This role will also challenge and encourage you to use experimental development languages.

The majority of projects require PHP and JavaScript (JQuery), HTML and CSS and hopefully you will also be an active open source contributor or tech blogger.

 Solid object oriented principles
 MVC knowlegde
 JQuery
 HTML + CSS
 Comfortable in Linux environment
 Minimum 2 years industry experience

Desired requirements;
 Good understanding of load balancing

 GIT/SVN vesion control
 Other scripting languages (Python, Ruby, C#)
 Contributions to open source projects
 XML/REST/SOAP related technologies
 MySQL/MYSQL Cluster
 WAI, W3C
 

Send me your resume today for this marvellous technical development opportunity.