Graduate PHP Developer

Overview

We are looking for a motivated graduate to join our rapidly growing technical development team. You will be an enthusiastic coder who is keen to learn and willing to step in to help in any capacity in our platform development.

The Company

BraveNewTalent is a game changing technology start up with traction, blue chip clients and confirmed track for global scale. The platform brings together all social media content an employer has – jobs, tweets, blogs, news, pictures, videos and more – and intelligently connects talent to employers and opportunities based on a sophisticated recommendation engine. Current clients include blue chip brands such as Starbucks, IBM, L’Oréal, Tesco and McAfee.

In line with our current UK success, and following venture funding from Northzone and experienced Angels such as Cambridge Angels, Pierce Casey, Mike Bourne and Alex Hoye, BraveNewTalent has opened offices in the US and India.

We are located in central London in an office at the Silicon Roundabout, around Old Street and Shoreditch.

The Role

  • Working with a team and independently to come up with creative solutions to create and maintain a complex feature set
  • Coding, unit testing and integration testing
  • Troubleshooting technical issues
  • Helping develop the structure and operations of a growing and maturing engineering team

Personal Skills & Attributes

  • Mature and independent, yet receptive to team participation
  • Driven and committed to true excellence
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
  • Good understanding of software design principles
  • A focus on quality and attention to detail
  • Superb communicator, both oral and written

Your Core Skills

  • University graduate in Computer Science (2.1 or above) or related qualification with a significant degree of programming content
  • Min 3 years non professional software development experience
  • Strong Object Oriented PHP skills
  • Strong Understanding of HTML and JavaScript
  • Knowledge of ZEND framework (or any other MVC based framework)
  • Knowledge of using MySQL and knowledge of relational database design
  • Knowledge of version control (SVN/Git)
  • Knowledge of creating scalable web-apps and working with high-volume traffic

Your Extra Bonuses

  • Familiarity with the social networking space, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc
  • Familiarity with job boards and other recruitment channels (particularly social recruitment)
  • Strong knowledge of CSS
  • Knowledge of jQuery
  • Knowledge of PHPUnit, TDD
  • Knowledge of APIs: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc
  • Facebook application development skills would be a huge plus
  • Server administration skills would be a huge plus (LAMP stack, SVN/Git, CI & deployment software, backups, monitoring)

Is This Role For You?

Our environment is exciting, the pace of change is lightning fast and we have little or no red tape to slow us down. We all have a deep seated belief that we can really make things happen and if you are similarly energetic and prepared to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in, you will love the freedom and opportunity that this role will give you.

Salary

Based on experience (plus stock options)

How To Apply

If you think you’ve got what it takes to join a fast growing startup, send your CV to jobs@bravenewtalent.com

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