Contract PHP Engineer

Spectrum IT's client are looking for a productive and focused Contract PHP Developer to join their development team, assisting the Development Manager and playing a leading, inventive role. As part of the team that designs, builds, tests, delivers and supports the clients ever growing web-based products and services. This is an OUTSIDE IR35 role, 6 month initial contract with opportunity to extend and hybrid working with the Clients office being based in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Main Duties:

* Bring a creative but practical approach to maintaining and enhancing the clients software based products.

* Deliver innovative new developments and additions to current systems and functionality

* Oversee the programming and technical development of the products and services

Essential Technical Attributes:

* In-depth knowledge and experience of programming PHP 5.0 or 7.0 (MVC)

* Experience of Object Oriented programming and design patterns

* Thorough understanding and experience in writing Unit Tests

* Experience of PHP Frameworks e.g. Zend, Codeigniter etc. (Not CMS, Drupal, WordPress etc)

* Hands-on knowledge of using either MYSQL or Microsoft SQL SERVER

* Knowledge of administrating Apache

* Experience of working in a Unix/Linux environment

Nice to have Technical Attributes:

* Experience of Test Driven Development (TDD)

* Worked in an Agile environment (e.g. SCRUM or Kanban)

* Knowledge of administrating Apache

* Experience of internet technologies (Java, Web Services, SOAP, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax)

* Relational database design

* Experience of GIT source control

* Experience of Jira/Stash/Confluence

* Secure coding experience

For more information and to submit your interest, please apply with an updated CV.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.