Senior Developers and Developers - Manchester

Skylab is hiring!

Skylab has an awesomely talented team, a great culture, great clients, creates world class work and has digital innovation at its core.

• We care greatly about the quality and craft of our work.
• We have regular developer meetings to promote discussion and improvement about the way we work.
• We have dedicated ‘development time’ to focus on best practice and explore innovation and new ways of working.
• Every coder has monthly personal development time to improve their individual skills in areas they choose.
• We have regular stand-ups, code reviews by peers and workshops to share knowledge across the team.
• We place a lot of emphasis on getting the right processes agreed and in place, so that projects are delivered on time and to schedule… reducing stress!
• We have a studio budget for office fruit, treats and Skylab outings!
• …and we also invest in great kit for you to work on.

We are looking for experienced senior developers / developers with sys admin experience to join the team and play a leading role in developing both the coding team and our clients’ multi-platform projects for websites, apps, social media, cloud-based infrastructure and future innovation. This role will be a mix of:

• Architecting solutions
• Hands-on development
• Mentoring the team and setting standards and processes

The senior developer will understand the concepts of service-oriented architecture, dependency injection and will have ideally used this in a commercial application. Additionally, practical experience of test driven development will be beneficial.

Experience of using an MVC framework is critical, as we use the Symfony PHP framework, both 1.x and 2.x.

Experience of Wordpress and ExpressionEngine will also be useful (but not critical), as we use these CMSs to drive some of our clients’ websites.

All developers will be expected to show experience in and around the following topics:

• Development cycle, processes and tools
• Quality assurance
• Security
• Performance
• Standardisation
• Software architecture

Core skills will include:

• PHP 5
• OOP
• MySQL
• Javascript – particularly jQuery and Backbone.js
• HTML 5
• CSS 3
• Git

Highly desirable skills include:

• Symfony 1.x and 2.x
• Doctrine 2
• Propel
• Wordpress
• ExpressionEngine

System administration, particularly of cloud infrastructure is highly advantageous:

• Experience configuring and maintaining LAMP servers (particularly Ubuntu)
• The ability to design infrastructure solutions on AWS:
• EC2
• RDS
• ELB
• S3
• Cloud Front
• SES
• Route 53
• The ability to maintain infrastructure
• An understanding of Continuous Integration
• Puppet
• Phing
• Jenkins

Competitive salary, depending on experience.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We will happily talk to you about your natural strengths and also the areas that you are keen to improve. Skylab is a wonderful journey and we are here to help you every step of the way.

Please send your application and CV to [email protected].

Good luck….. and no agencies please.