Senior Back-End Developer

Posted 17 June 2022
SalaryHourly rate
LocationAuckland
Job type Temporary
Reference545910

Job description

About the Company
You’ll work in a meritocratic culture, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn and grow within a creative and technically advanced team and have access to ongoing personal and professional development. We are committed to both your career growth and your work/life balance, with the option of fully remote working.

About the Role
As a Senior back-end Developer, you will build award-winning projects and creatively solve business problems through technology. You must be adept at using a number of back-end technologies including excellent understanding of front-end integrations, have an appetite to always explore options and use them to meet our high standards. We want you to help shape our creativity too, understanding user/business needs and adding your experiences into concept meetings with a technology-focused edge.

Key Responsibilities
  • You will be responsible for developing and maintaining responsive web applications, website pages based on Silverstripe CMS on SS Cloud for our clients.
  • You will partner with developers, producers, QA and UX/UI specialists to deliver a range of best-in-class digital projects.
  • To provide clear and accurate specifications for your work and associated accurate estimates of effort.
  • Be able to input on decisions of the right technology for client’s challenges and work with a broad range of other disciplines to help shape projects.
  • Developing back-end code to be standards compliant and neat, following best practice at all times.
  • You will take ownership of your code and ensure, with our QA resources, that it meets our high expectations and standards.
Key Requirements
  • Minimum 7 years' development experience in a digital agency, consultancy or a product team with similar capabilities to ours.
  • Expert in PHP and associated MVC frameworks (SilverStripe required, additional associated technologies)
  • Strong experience with relational databases (MySQL / and NoSQL)
  • Solid understanding of Object Orientated Design
  • Development of complex API’s and web services
  • Capability to run and maintain platforms on SS Cloud, including deployments and necessary workflows such as testing tools
  • Knowledge and experience with modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks, tools and plugins
  • Create and design architecture that can be efficiently integrated with various systems and technologies.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with other disciplines and the project management team for client communication.

If you'd like to find out more about the role, please contact Scott at shallaway@brightspark.io or please apply and await to hear from us!