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Middleweight Developer Role

Gloople, an e-commerce platform is looking for a middleweight developer to work on an important project to help push our all-in-one social shopping solution to the next level and enhance our already extensive feature list. You will be working in our lovely offices near the silicon roundabout in Shoreditch.

The role will initially involve working on an exciting development project to help deploy our e-commerce product to the end user via the subscription panel. You’ll be working on the full lifecycle of the project from planning to production, including hosting architecture. Following on from this, you’ll be leading the development of Gloople and making strategic decisions to help the product flourish into a global business.

Gloople is run by Warren Knight and digital agency Browser Creative - already boasting a highly prestigious portfolio of clients. You will be the senior developer at Gloople talking directly to Steven Jack (Our friendly technical director).

Roles and responsibilities

  • Develop the new management console for our e-commerce product.
  • Create the platform for setting up the infrastructure, and provisioning new sites for the end user.
  • Advise and help plan the hosting side of the project.
  • Take charge and manage other members of the team.
  • Innovate and push our e-commerce product to the forefront of the market.

Key Technical Skills

This is not an exhaustive list. However, Gloople would invite candidates with 3 years or more experience in the industry, and knowledge of these key skills to apply:

  • PHP 5.3.x
  • Experience and good knowledge of OOP
  • MySql and database design
  • Linux/Unix
  • Knowledge of frameworks (Zend, Symfony 1/2)
  • Agile development techniques
  • Source control – GIT
  • RESTFul API Development and Integration
  • Apache, Varnish, Memcached and MySql hosting setup (minimal required knowledge)

Additional skills

Although not essential, experience of the following would be highly beneficial:

  • Designing modules/extending WHMCS
  • A good understanding of valid XHTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Use of Symfony2 and Doctrine 2.1
  • A solid understanding of hosting architecture and scaling web apps

You Are

Ultimately we need someone who is keen, highly motivated, and extremely passionate about everything technical. You like a challenge, and aren’t afraid to put in the hard work to see the results; somebody who is able to take charge of a small team and lead a project from start to finish.

Location

Gloople, 151-153 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3QL

Salary

Depending on experience

Get in touch at julian@gloople.co.uk