18 August 2008

Senior Software Engineer - workhound.co.uk

Workhound. http://www.workhound.co.uk and http://www.salarytrack.co.uk The site offers an aggregated vertical search of more than 700,000 UK job listings sourced from job boards, employment services and company job postings. Workhound.co.uk is the UKs largest search engine for jobs. Around this platform, Workdigital Ltd. is building a robust toolset helping the job seeker and browsers improve and manage their employment search.


JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Software Engineer will be a key member of the technical team responsible for architecting, developing and maintaining the workhound.co.uk product which is been constructed using the WAMP(Windows/Apache/PHP/Mysql ) stack.

RESPONSIBILITIES


** Develop and maintain LAMP based web applications
** Optimize SQL queries and understand object oriented programming
** Manipulate data and log files to provide extensive statistical reporting
** Create and maintain PHP framework
** Work on applications with high volume of users
** Develop and maintain modules
** Develop SEO techniques and coding standards.

REQUIREMENTS

** Candidate must be PHP expert with at least 5+ years experience
** Design, develop, maintain and optimize secure and scalable multi-tier web applications.
** Strong knowledge of PHP, Perl, Javascript, UNIX shell, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML.
** Comfortable with both object oriented and procedural programming methodologies.
** Experience with PHP5 and MySQL5 preferable.
** Nice to have experience with C, C++, Java, Python, and other languages a plus.
** Knowledge installing, configuring and maintaining Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP packages.
** Strong knowledge of stored procedures, triggers, indexes, table normalization and database design.
** Knowledge of AJAX development a plus.
** Strong understanding of software development life-cycle and best practices.
** Proficiency in working and developing on Linux (any flavor - debian, redhat, ubuntu, slackware etc.

PREFERRED

o Experience at consumer facing web properties software development.
o BA/BS degree