[Full-time] Senior PHP developer at M&G Online Job

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Location: Johannesburg
URL: http://mg.co.za

Description:
Responsibilities:

• The development and maintenance of one of South Africa’s top newssites (including related sites)
• Development of special projects and offerings
• Augmentation and implementation of new and existing CMS technologies
• Architecture & planning
• System administration and optimisation

Skills & requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science
• At least 6 years experience in web development
• At least 6 years experience in system administration on LAMP stacks
• A portfolio of (live) sites and/or web applications

Core development skills (expert level):

• PHP 5 (and earlier)
• MySQL
• Javascript (including Jquery and/or general AJAX skills)
• HTML / XHTML
• CSS
• XML
• MVC framework
• Cross browser compatibility and optimization
• Strict W3C coding standards

System administration & back office skills:

• Apache web server
• Linux OSes (Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora)
• SVN

Highly advantageous: (Experience with)

• CMS development
• high availability architecture
• CodeIgniter framework
• Wordpress
• CDN technologies
• SEO knowledge
• Scrum and / or agile methodologies

Characteristics & competencies:

• Self motivated & passionate with a deep love of good code
• Attention to detail
• Works well under pressure
• A team player
• A willingness to both learn and teach
• A generalist with a big picture view on technology
• Flexible about approach, but inflexible about quality
• A love of great content would be an asset

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