Think Publishing, one of the top 15 customer publishing houses in the UK is currently searching for a Creative Developer to join its family. We are looking for proactive hard workers with a spark of inspiration who are passionate and ready to integrate with a team of like-minded individuals.
You will have 1-2 years of agency experience.
The key day-to-day tasks include:
- Development resource for both design led front end and functionality led back end development
- Manage third party relationships with service providers & freelancers
- Creation of functional and systems analysis documentation pitched for multiple levels of understanding (business, tech, developer & design)
- Project cost estimation
- Image manipulation
- Production and analysis of web statistics
- Data architect (database modelling & design)
- Systems architecture (selection of products/tools/technologies for usage in projects)
- Technical architecture (selection of hardware and infrastructure for usage in projects)
- Information architecture (user journeys, use cases, reverse engineering)
- Analysis of SEO/SEM
- Keeping up with latest hardware, software, methodology, marketing and internet trends
Required Skills:
- LAMP based Content Management Systems experience (e.g. Drupal, Joomla, ExpressionEngine, Concrete5, WordPress)
- PHP (including knowledge of framework e.g. CakePHP, Symfony or Zend)
- MySQL
- XHTML and CSS
- JavaScript (including one of the major frameworks e.g. jQuery, Spry or MooTools)
- Reporting tools implementation and setup (Google Analytics)
- Apache server architecture
- Photoshop/Fireworks
Nice to Have:
- Windows Server Architecture
- ASP.NET/C#
- SQL Server
- Social media platforms
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- Twitter integration
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- Facebook (applications development)
- eCommerce experience (Magento, Ubercart, osCommerce)
- Smart phone platforms
- Ad Serving technologies (i.e. Google Adwords)
- Flash/ActionScript2/3