On behalf of employer: Whitespace Interactive
Great opportunity to join a growing company.
Whitespace Interactive are a highly successful digital team and part of Whitespace Communications Ltd. We are located in air conditioned offices two minutes from the M1, Junction 37. We work with blue chip clients such as Iceland, Jacuzzi, DWP and Barclays on exciting high profile projects.
We are looking for a talented Senior LAMP developer with a history of commercial web application design and exposure to the full project life cycle to work as part of a team supporting our technical manager. Must have a working knowledge of software design patterns, a clear understanding of web and system security issues and designing for best application performance.
They will be at home in a Unix shell such as Bash and have a good working knowledge of Unix command line tools such as tar, sed, grep, awk and find.
Essential requirements
Commercial website application design and development
Preparing tech specs and database schemas when required
Outstanding Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris, Apache, MySQL and PHP skills
Clean sheet relational database design together with very good SQL skills
Must have experience of importing and manipulating data with SQL scripts
HTML and CSS experience
Experience of payment gateways
Good working knowledge of e-mail, FTP
Thorough knowledge of website accessibility guidelines and data protection practices
Excellent communication skills
Attention to detail and accuracy
Ability to work quickly and to tight deadlines
Fluent in English if English is not primary language
Sense of humour
Experience of the following would be a distinct advantage
Java Script, AJAX and dynamic HTML
Subversion
Ruby on Rails
Perl or Bash scripting
PostgreSQL
DNS and Bind
In-depth TCP/IP and firewalls
Java, JSP, Spring, Hibernate or iBatis
ASP.Net/C#
Want to know more?
Download a job spec from our website. Salary negotiable and depends on qualifications and experience. Package also includes paid overtime, bonus scheme, 24 days holiday and use of company villa (when available).
To apply please send CV and covering email with indication of salary to nick.birch@white-space.co.uk
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