PHP developer

Join us as a PHP developer to build great websites and web applications for a wide variety of platforms and audiences. Our sites have previously won three Webby awards, and most recently we’re scored a best mobile site award from the Association of Online Publishers. You’ll be writing and working with PHP based web applications, using a variety of frameworks, both well known and home grown, to create the best solutions we can.

This page describes the web developer role specifically. For general recruitment information and a guide to what working at FT Labs is like, or for details of our other jobs, please see our main jobs page.

Responsibilities:

Software development in PHP
Integrating with associated technologies: databases, caches, message queues, APIs, SMS and Email, test frameworks, and much more.
Templates and some user interface development, working with UX engineers on larger projects
Testing, debugging and troubleshooting
Client liaison and training

Required skills

PHP 5
MySQL 5 (to expert level, including sub queries, unions, and optimising for multi-million row record sets)
HTML5 and CSS
Knowledge of a variety of software design patterns
Working knowledge of Linux command line tools and version control concepts
Excellent quality of written and spoken English

Desirable skills

JavaScript
Experience with jQuery
Usability and user experience design
Knowledge of a variety of PHP frameworks (ie. more than one).
Knowledge of the Baazar VCS

Unnecessary/undesirable skills

Adobe flash
.net or any other Microsoft technology
Specialism in any one specific PHP framework

Salary

We offer salaries of £25,000 – £50,000 for developer roles

Application

Application for developer roles is via our online application form, where we will test the skills outlined above in an online skills assessment. Recruiters: please see our recruiters policy, and as much as we know you love the telephone, if you phone us, we will blacklist you immediately.