Job description

Jellyfish is looking for a senior PHP e-commerce developer to work within our Umhlanga office. If you enjoy coding, sharing ideas and love being part of a collaborative team within a growing international agency, then this is the role for you.

Jellyfish is a diverse digital marketing agency which means you’ll work on anything from simple content managed websites to advanced mobile apps and lead generation projects. 

Day to day you’ll be working with our dedicated project management team and internal studio at our head office in Reigate. You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining different applications and sites for our external clients and several Jellyfish-owned products and services. We add to these all the time so there’ll always be new challenges to work with.

Day to day responsibilities 

• 80% development, 20% senior duties such as scoping and mentoring
• Be willing to take ownership of projects and to present your proposed solutions to the wider team to non-technical staff
• Ability to perform effectively to tight deadlines, work well both independently and as part of a team
• A proactive attitude to problem solving and an understanding of the role of development in a creative environment
• Mentor junior and mid-weight developers and ensure they become good team members with good communication and that they follow code standards
• Effectively conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers and ensure they track their time correctly
• Maintain a good standard of coding and adhere to the same conventions as the rest of the team
• Leave code better than you found it (and fully commented)
• Test your code, be it client or server-side
• Jellyfish developers tend to work in a DevOps capacity and you will be expected to reach a degree of competency in maintaining your own development server and migrating work in progress to UAT/testing servers
• Be willing to work in a research capacity – to find and test and critically review open-source frameworks and technologies
• Open, honest and direct, is comfortable in giving and receiving constructive feedback

Requirements

• Five years’ experience of PHP (knowledge of PSR standards is a bonus)
• Experience with back end ecommerce frameworks such as:
  • Magento 1
  • PrestaShop
  • WooCommerce
  • Opencart
  • You will be expected to be proactive in educating yourself in those you may not already know
• Beneficial: Experience with back-end frameworks and/or content management systems such as:
  • Laravel/Lumen
  • WordPress
  • Drupal
  • Joomla
  • Magento 2
  • PrestaShop
  • Zend Framework
• Prior management experience a bonus
• Ability to scope a project based on a technical brief and provide a detailed project plan including:
  • Data flow diagrams for process flow
  • Database schemas and normalisation
  • Recommended software/plugins/architecture
  • Scalable environment architecture suggestions
  • Hosting, storage, load balancing, and caching suggestions
  • Security considerations
  • QA plan
  • Assumptions and exclusions
  • MoSCoW analysis
  • A complete and accurate estimate for the project
• Experience creating modules for CMS/frameworks
• Prior experience in mentoring small teams and providing technical documentation
• Experience with JavaScript (APIs/jQuery)
  • AngularJS a bonus
• An understanding of socket based communication is a bonus
• Robust experience with Linux command line, bash scripting, configuration, installation, maintenance and monitoring
• Experience with Git/GitHub
• Robust experience with databases or key-value stores (MySQL/MariaDB/MongoDB) including command line usage
  • Good experience in database normalisation
  • Experience with multiple Key value stores
  • Experience with queue software a bonus
• Good experience of parsing data formats such as XML/JSON and using third party APIs
  • Experience with Curl/similar
• Experience of programmatic generation of documents/data
• Experience creating importers/validators/exporters
• Good communication skills for client interaction
• A working understanding of Apache/Nginx configuration and virtual hosts
• Experience with Jenkins or other continuous integration tools a bonus
• Experience with Puppet or other server automation tools a bonus
• Knowledge of additional programming languages a bonus
• Front-end process and tool understanding is a bonus
  • Sass and CSS
  • BEM
  • Bootstrap/Foundation
• A good standard of front end development is expected

Personal skills

• Strong verbal and communication skills
• Good time management skills
• Proactive and self-motivated with a sense of ownership
• Flexible, versatile, and copes well under pressure
• A team player with high energy
• Educated to degree level in computer science or equivalent
• A willingness to adopt Agile methodology
• A good understanding of the change request process

Posted on 10 Jul 15:00