Full Job Specification

19th June 2013

Company Profile:

Our client is a young, successful and rapidly-expanding agency at the cutting edge of dynamic performance marketing. They have quickly emerged as the undisputed leaders in their field of creation, management and distribution of high quality product feeds and as a result boast an incredibly enviably client list in the retail, travel and technology sectors; Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Nokia and Orange to name but a few.

The Role:

Our client is scaling up production and needs new developers to help deliver their products to clients and partners. This challenging role will require an intelligent candidate with strong web development skills, attention to detail and an eagerness to learn. Good communication skills are also a necessity!

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintaining our clients’ key products and making core updates
• Creation of web agents to extract product data from client site
• Deployment and bespoke customization of our client's products
• Planning, implementing, testing and documenting new features for key products
• Tracking bugs, issues and feature requests

Candidate Must-Haves:

• Degree in Computer Science / IT related subject or some solid, relevant work experience
• Excellent working knowledge of PHP5 and MySQL
• Excellent working knowldge of JavaScript (preferably including jQuery or another AJAX framework)
• Solid understanding of OOP and design patterns

Desirable Knowledge:

• XPath
• Bash Scripting
• Working with XML-based APIs e.g. SOAP
• At least one PHP framework e.g. CodeIgnitor, Zend, Symfony
• Flash/ActionScript
• Design and Front-End development skills
• Linux System administration
• Mozilla plugin development 
• Online marketing e.g. Affiliate, PPC, SEO, Comparison Shopping

Anchored within one of London's most successful web-development teams, the developers will receive first-class training and have access to a host of outstanding career progression opportunities.