PHP Web Developer Job Description

Job Title: Web Developer Based At: EMSL, Arden Press House Reports To: Technical Director, EMSL Salary: £22,000 to £28,000

Job Summary The Web Developer uses expertise and experience to produce development work on a wide variety of web projects. Working with confidence and professionalism, they will maintain high standards ensuring the quality of services delivered to our clients. With a responsibility for the quality of work they produce, they will be accountable for delivery of projects according to agreed timescales as well as ensuring code is well- constructed, secure and suitable for the specific application. A good understanding of web development technologies across numerous platforms is essential. The Web Developer is a key position in a small Web Development Team at our agency, so they should expect to be involved in technical decisions, sharing knowledge and maintaining excellent relationships with colleagues.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create website back-ends and web services using open-source technologies, particularly PHP.

• Integrate back-ends with existing front-ends, using HTML / CSS / AJAX as needed

• Participate in development process from specification and design through build to testing, release and maintenance.

• Break down problems into viable actionable chunks, and solve them with clarity and precision

• Deliver projects according to agreed timescales

• Some basic website-related administrative duties, e.g. SSL and DNS management

Qualifications, Skills, Experience:

Essential:

• Good foundation in programming skills, with strong skills in at least one language

• Experience of server-side programming for web

• Knowledge of PHP and ability to self-teach as required on the job, with support from the Technical Director

• Familiarity with configuration, in particular for Apache servers

• Analytical and methodical with strong problem-solving skills

• Enthusiastic, with a desire to learn and expand knowledge

• Self-starter able to make progress with minimal supervision, seeks help when required

Desirable:

• Related degree or other appropriate qualifications

• Experience with front-end web languages - HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Understanding of version control systems - preferably Git

• Knowledge of Object Oriented techniques and patterns (e.g. MVC)

• Experience working with Wordpress as well as other common CMSs

• Good communication skills – friendly, polite and approachable