We're looking for talented PHP developers of varying experience to join our international digital consultancy in the centre of Manchester. Ideally, you’ll have commercial experience as a developer for a digital / web agency, but we value talent and passion as much as an impressive CV.
When you join Reading Room, you’ll be involved in work for charity, arts & culture, public sector and big brand business on all manner of projects from CMS implementation to ecommerce to custom development. You’ll be working closely with all team members and expected to apply your technical knowledge at all stages of a project – we don’t just hand you a brief and expect you to deliver it, rather give you the opportunity to input and guide from the very first stages of a project and be involved right up to delivery.
Essential experience is:
• Experience of PHP 5 (pref 5.3+)
• Solid grasp of Object Orientated principles
• Experience of source code management systems such as SVN
• Solid grasp of MySQL - SQL techniques , Views, Events, Triggers etc
• LAMP, WAMP, XAMPP
• XHTML
• XML
• CSS
• Web services (SOAP/REST)
Ideally, it wouldn’t hurt for you to have demonstrable experience in:
• CMS Experience – Wordpress, Drupal, Typo3, Terminal4, Joomla, etc
• Frameworks: Zend, Silex, Symphony2, Yii, CakePHP. etc
• Linux/apache administration/ linux command line
• Setting up cron jobs/scheduled tasks
• cURL
• Javascript/JQuery
• Experience with Build/Deployment Servers
• Search solutions (Google, Coveo, Lucene/Solr etc)
• SSH
We expect people to muck in with the team without needing to be asked, have good communication skills and be able to enjoy good relationships with colleagues and clients alike.
You will be:
- A team player, fun, irreverent, happy to muck in, ambitious, passionate, honest, energetic.
You will not be:
- Political, defensive, insular, egotistical.
Requirements:
• Genuine and demonstrable passion for web and digital
• Digital Interests or Experience.
• Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills, experience and aptitude in building and managing relationships.
• Persuasive and confident
• Good understanding of Digital Communication and how it can be used to deliver business value.
• Sense of humour!
• Digital agency or consultancy background (not required but beneficial)
We retain the feel of a smaller agency by operating as small teams comprised of staff with diverse interests but who are united in our passion for great digital design and strategy. We will offer you every opportunity to grow and develop your skills. We are looking for someone who takes great pride in their work, with the right attitude that will fit in to our highly skilled team and have the same passion and drive that we have for every project we work on. As this is an international agency there is the opportunity to travel to our Singapore or Australian offices.
Reading Room is an award-winning digital consultancy with over 200 staff in offices in London, Manchester, Australia and Singapore. We love the internet so we're always pushing ourselves to build better and smarter. Half-arsed isn't in our vocabulary, we don't do office politics and we have zero tolerance for excuses, egos, and narrow-mindedness. So if you've got a passion for producing the best work possible for clients and colleagues, and want to work in a place where honesty isn't a dirty word, we want you.
If you’ve read the description and think that you’d be a perfect match for our team, please send us your CV.
