Manchester, UK. Skylab: <a href="http://www.studioskylab.com/" > - Senior Developer &amp; developers.
We develop innovative and exciting web projects for both clients and ourselves.
We're looking for people who take pride in their work and get excited by the industry they work in, people who work well with others, people with a good eye for detail.
We work with technologies such as:
- HTML 5
- CSS 3 and SASS
- Responsive design
- Amazon Web Services
- Git
- Symfony 2
- Puppet
- Auto-scaling server infrastructures
Why you might want to work here:
Training — Dedicated time set aside to training; whether that’s self-teaching, online courses or attending conferences.
Collaboration — Fortnightly get-togethers to discuss new technologies and how we can push things forward; everyone’s opinion is important.
Money — We offer competitive salaries.
Apples — Everyone gets an iMac or MacBook Pro.
Apples — We provide free fruit for the team.
Roles available:
--- Senior developer ---
What you'll be doing:
The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects, mentoring the team, code reviews, helping set standards and getting involved in writing technical documents and proposals.
What we're looking for:
Experience
- Development of commercial projects
- Mentoring and training of other team members
- Use of development patterns and processes such as MVC, dependency injection and TDD - Writing client-friendly technical documents
Technical skills
In addition to the skills listed in the introduction:
PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, LAMP server administration, Continuous integration (Jenkins or similar), Automated deployments (Puppet or similar), Architecting scalable web infrastructures, WordPress and ExpressionEngine.
Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.
--- Developer ---
What you'll be doing:
The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects.
What we're looking for:
Experience: Development of commercial projects
Technical skills:
In addition to the skills listed in the introduction -
PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, WordPress and ExpressionEngine.
Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.
We would love to hear from you so please contact us at careers[at]studioskylab.com
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