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PHP Systems Developer at CatN

An exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing, innovative web hosting start-up as a PHP Systems Developer. You will work with the existing infrastructure and platform development teams to create innovative, disruptive software that will form the core of our customer facing offerings.

Are you enthusiastic, innovative, and passionate about working in a creative team? Do you have experience writing back end systems in PHP and MySQL?

About the Position

Your main tasks will focus on further development of the back-end system powering our hosting products: working to integrate existing user and payment systems, develop new products and product add-ons and enhance the range of functionality available to customers via our control panel.

This is an excellent chance to stamp your mark on a rapidly growing hosting company and to be involved in the development of exciting new products.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with the existing development team to design and build new features and products for our hosting systems.
• Iteratively improve the PHP system code of our hosting products.
• Work with the API to integrate partner offerings into our existing products.
• Develop and maintain the existing MySQL databases of user and product information.
• Day to day task and time management.
• Report to the Head of Platform Services, presenting completed objectives and future plans.
• Devising innovative solutions to problems reported by end users and customers.
• Supporting existing customers as they use and test our products.

Required Knowledge

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Excellent PHP & MySQL OOP programming ability.
• Experience of the Zend Framework.
• Intermediate LINUX systems engineering knowledge with strong knowledge of the UNIX shell.
• Good understanding of XML & AJAX, cURL and data mining techniques.
• Experience working in a LAMP stack with experience installing and configuring the LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) packages.
• Very strong problem solving skills.
• Able to work independently with excellent organisation and time management skills.
• Previous experience using the SCRUM methodology of working.
• Experience working in the web hosting industry.

The salary will normally be in the range of £25k – £30k depending upon skills and experience.

If you’re still reading and have a genuine interest in becoming an important member of a fast growing company (maybe you’re already in a similar position, but want more than developing things people will never see or appreciate), then you can begin our application process by taking the quick developer quiz.