Full Stack Senior Developer

NJI is a wildly creative and strategically disciplined agency with offices in London, Washington, D.C., and Singapore. We work seamlessly across teams and time zones to align and deliver for our clients.

We seek an experienced and versatile senior web developer to join our London office with at least 4+ years of experience who enjoys a broad range of both front-end and back-end development responsibilities. The ideal candidate is able to quickly, independently, and precisely build a PHP-driven website from design assets and functional documentation. Maintenance and updates to existing sites also factors heavily into the responsibilities of this position. PHP experience is a must – we frequently build on proven and popular content management systems like Drupal and WordPress. 

We hope to find a developer that can build a site from Sketch/Adobe XD into WordPress and be able to use WPVIP PHPCS standard.

Skills

Please examine the many skills we look for in a candidate. The right technical experience and skill will get you an interview, attitude and professionalism will get you the job.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL SKILL

• Attention to Detail – You must be naturally precise, and you must take genuine, personal pride in being meticulous about your craft.
• Communication – Our operational style emphasizes flexibility and encourages autonomy. As a result, uncommonly good common sense, and exceptional communication skills are absolutely indispensable for every team member.
• Time Management – We know that nothing is ever ‘done’. The proven ability to manage your time sensibly and proportionately with project priorities is critical.

FRONT-END EXPERIENCE

• HTML – Demonstrated correct and semantic application of markup, including headers, lists, forms, etc, ability to distinguish HTML 5 from XHTML 1, HTML 4.01, etc.
• CSS – Mastery of clean and organized styling techniques, including responsive techniques. Knowledge of graceful degradation/progressive enhancement approaches to browser support
• Javascript – Strong knowledge of syntax, variables, and operators. Experience using basic features of consoles and other debugging tools
• jQuery – Capable of leveraging jQuery to modify existing UI behaviors and interactions and to create brand new interactions from scratch
• Sketch/Adobe XD – Strong knowledge on creating a site from Sketch and AD files

BACK-END EXPERIENCE:

• WordPress – Demonstrated experience installing and developing quality sites in WordPress 5+
• PHP5 – Very strong with PHP syntax and features. Understand variables, constants, arrays, loops, internal functions, php configurations, error logging/reporting, and OOP principles
• Linux – Basic familiarity working from shell or terminal in Mac or Linux
• Apache – Background with Apache web server, knowledge of basic configuration, optimization and authentication techniques
• MySQL – Knowledge of schemas, tables, users and privileges, principles of relational databases, and SQL commands. Able to migrate legacy data from unlike management systems
• Analytics – Familiar with implementing and evaluating results from metric gathering technologies such as Google Analytics
• SSL – Experience requesting and installing certificates, directing traffic through secure ports, and encrypting protected data
• MVC – Good grasp of the MVC architectural pattern
• APIs and Web Services – Experience working with APIs, and creating and consuming web services, using SOAP and REST protocols
• JSON – Familiar with JSON syntax, asynchronous Javascript, and encoding/decoding JSON data in PHP
• Git – Familiar with Git commands including branching, merging and fixing merge conflicts
• GitHub: Familiar with PR and Merging
• PHPCS – have built site using the PHPCS code standards
• XML – Understand how to properly structure and use XML for transferring data

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

These are not required, but would be considered plusses:

• Sass, SCSS
• Gulp/Grunt, Bower package manager
• RegEx skills
• Other technologies such as NGINX, PHP–FPM, APC, Memcache, Varnish, and CDN
• Worked locally using Lando or Vagrant
• Drupal 7/8
  

THANKS, BUT…

Oh, and thanks for reading this all the way through. To be clear, we’re not interested in hearing from recruiters, recruiters who claim not to be “recruiters,” headhunters, or staffing companies.

To Apply:

To apply, please send your resume and a few paragraphs explaining why you have what it takes to work@njimedia.com. Please include a link to a website, writing sample or other online profile you’re particularly proud of. Also, please include “UK Developer” in your subject line.