PHP Developer  to start ASAP on a 3 MONTH CONTRACT! AWESOME company, Woodstock Exchange location.

About LittleBird
Based in London with a new office in Cape Town, LittleBird offers great deals on the best things for families to do and see together. The website and mobile application list hand-picked, personalised content including places, events, products, experiences and offers that can be purchased directly in the app.
Our team has been delivering digital solutions for over ten years and is part of the Big Ideas Group Ltd, a collective of technology businesses with a turnover of over £20m, currently ranked in the Sunday Times Top 100 best companies to work for in the UK.

If you're the most enthusiastic, charming and downright brilliant web developer out there, we'll give you a career-changing job in a cool office, working with an incredibly talented team at a great tech start-up.

Job Description
Co-ordinate with other developers in the team to create reliable, scalable and flexible web and mobile applications, ensuring they are well tested and delivered according to the project schedule.
Assist in interpretation and understanding of project requirements and suggest technical solutions.
Be responsible for managing data and applications that are critical to the business. This requires a solid understanding of server configuration and database management.
Research and evaluate new technologies and maintain an understanding of industry best-practices with regards to application design, security and performance, database design and web development standards.

Package:

• R25k/month according to expertise and experience
• Opportunity for further career development and personal growth.
• 22 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays.
• Access to a medical insurance scheme and a range of other benefits including flexitime and working from home.
• Great offices in the Woodstock Exchange building in Cape Town.
• Free breakfast and snack food provided. 
• Regular social events and activities. 
• Free Friday lunches. 

Key Experience Required

• Must have at least two years experience of delivering PHP-based web applications with Symfony2 experience 
• A solid understanding of the software development process, including use of version control and continuous integration systems.
• Expertise in relational database design, optimisation and maintenance.
• Excellent problem solving and extraordinary levels of common sense.

Specific Skills Preferred

• Modern PHP MVC frameworks, ideally Doctrine ORM
• Source code control using Git
• Integrating web services using REST APIs
• Front-end and mobile web development skills including adaptive/responsive HTML5, CSS & JS, ideally AngularJS
• Development tools such as Composer, Bower, Gulp, Twitter Bootstrap, LESS
• Unit testing with PHPUnit

If you think this role sounds like you please apply asap by:

• Hitting reply in this advert
• Or even better logging on to and applying online!

Good luck and please bear in mind we receive a very high number of applications; we will endeavour to get back to all applicants, however, we thank you for understanding this is not always possible for unsuccessful applicants.