Web Developer / Senior Web Developer

Key relationships:

•    Web Publishing

•    Product & Platform Group

•    Magazines & Researcher Services

•    UK/Germany development teams (when needed)

Key tasks:

•    Lead day-to-day development tasks on various internal and external web applications

•    Document current systems and business processes

•    Gather and summarize the needs of customers (internal or external) and produce technical specifications

•    Audit, re-factor, improve current systems

•    Must follow plans for successful release of websites (specifications, development, execution, etc.)

•    Monitor new technologies, propose innovations and decide best technologies to use for a given project

•    Manage other web developers in team

•    Manage 2-4 other developers (manage workload, assign tasks, code review and check merge request)

Skills/knowledge:

•    Strong MVC development skills

•    Expert in PHP (7+ years), Symfony, Zend Framework (or other PHP frameworks), UML, database design (EER)

•    Familiar with Python

•    Familiar with Cloud Foundry

•    Experience with Docker

•    Experience using AWS instances (EC2) or other cloud computing

•    Enterprise design patterns and excellent knowledge of the Object Oriented paradigm

•    Unit testing (PHP Unit), black/white box testing, enforce quality assurance

•    User acceptance test procedures

•    Master application/website life cycles

•    Version control systems (GIT)

•    Aware of security related guidelines (OWASP)

•    Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery

•    Project management for development projects

•    Strong organizational skills, able to work independently, able to handle pressure

•    Extensive support, problem identification and resolution experience

•    Experience with mobile app development (React Native)

Experience:

•     7+ years experience as a web developer

•    Science background is plus

Qualifications:

•    University degree