Junior PHP Developer

New opportunity not to be missed! Now Healthcare Group has a unique opportunity available for a Junior PHP Developer to join the team in Salford Quays, Manchester. The role is a full time, permanent position offering a competitive salary.

The Now Healthcare Group is a dynamic organisation that was founded with technology and medical knowledge in mind and aims to be at the forefront of cutting edge technology.

NHG is technological and innovative provider within the healthcare sector through the development of a groundbreaking health platform. NHG is looking for a Junior PHP Developer  to join their agile development team. You will be responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users.

Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

The successful Junior PHP Developer must have a proven track record of developing commercial multi-user systems using PHP. Health domain experience is not essential, but the role requires knowledge of PHP and related technologies. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential.

What are the responsibilities of the Junior PHP Developer?

- Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications

- Development of user-facing elements

- Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable PHP code

- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

What do we look for in a Junior PHP Developer?

Skills

- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks {{such as Laravel, CodeIgniter, Li3, etc}}

- Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP

- Understanding of MVC design patterns

- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

- Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming

- Understanding accessibility and security compliance

- Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions

- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

- Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds

- Established SQL database skills, particularly in the contexts of the business logic and data access application layers, and including the use of ORM tools such as Laravel

- Familiarity with RESTful API Frameworks

- Ability to write clean, readable PHP, HTML, Javascript code

- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Experience of the following would be an advantage:

- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

- Experience of HTML / XML, web services and web development

- Ability to evaluate and apply various design patterns (MVC / MVP / MVVM)

- Remote deployment and client update in a LAMP/WAMP domain environment

- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools {{such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial}}

- Familiarity with continuous integration

- Software localisation

The post is based at our office in Salford Quays, but occasional travel may be required. As part of the interview process, candidates will be presented with a number of technical tasks to test some of the key skills required for this position.

Why not click ‘apply’ today? Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join the world’s premier telehealth organisation as our Junior PHP Developer.

Only direct applications are accepted. Agencies will not be used