Ref: PTR13/887
Location: Hull
Description: Enthusiastic and experienced OO design and development professional required for applications creation and support team.
Salary: to £35k neg dep exp
Our client specialise in a vast array of world class engineering solutions for the most diverse selection of engineering and technical market leaders and infrastructure solution providers, and as a result of continued success and an ongoing program of continuous improvement, they are now looking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic and highly self motivated software developer to complement their established and highly successful team. Based near Hull, the successful candidate will demonstrate a keen interest in web based applications to help develop a range of in house applications and associated systems.
You will be tasked with initially undertaking an in house training program that will focus on the skills and techniques required to develop bespoke web based applications before joining the development team on core business application development projects.
These will include developing new modules and being involved in the full development cycle, becoming an expert in OO PHP 5.4 with a good grounding in OO Design Principles and Patterns and the use of advanced PHP frameworks such as the Zend Framework and Symfony 2. Additionally you will help to introduce programming techniques such as Behaviour driven development (BDD) and Test Driven Development TDD), using advanced Javascript and the Dojo framework on a daily basis and designing database structures and writing optimised queries for MySQL.
With the future inevitably moving towards application development for Android and iOS devices, experience of creating mark-up with XHTML/HTML5 and styling with CSS3, Sass, Compass and Zurb’s Foundation Framework will prove distinctly advantageous, as would previous exposure to using Git to manage your code and Linux, Solr or other technologies already utilised by the existing team.
To be considered for this varied and challenging role, you will essentially demonstrate an in depth understanding of object oriented programming and the ability to program as such. Excellent communication skills and a general understanding of up to date programming techniques and IT practice are also required. You will ESSENTIALLY have attained a Computer Science related degree or equivalent and will possess a reasonable level of basic education including A-C grade GCSE’s or equivalent in Mathematics and English.
Contact the Software Team at Premier Technical Recruitment on 01827 68400 or email your CV in the strictest confidence to
