Senior API Developer Syfmony2
Location: GB, RIC, Teddington
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Not Applicable
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Consumer Services
Salary range: 40000-55000
Company profile: VouchedFor is a highly disruptive start up in the Financial Advice market. Created in 2011, we are an innovative start-up backed by investors whose previous successes include Zoopla, eBay, Lovefilm and Betfair. We connect consumers with Independent Financial Advisers and Mortgage Advisors that they can trust, based on customer reviews. We have exciting plans to do a whole lot more, makinggreat financial advice accessible and engaging to all.VouchedFor is the only UK digital platform that lets you find, rate and review Independent Advisors.We have successfully carved a place for ourselves in a commercial sector with revenues over £4.4 billion, and with nearly 2000 financial advisers now signed up, VouchedFor has created adviser capacity in excess of even the largest financial firms (e.g., St James Place, Barclays Wealth, Hargreaves Lansdown). The product and marketing opportunities this presents are endless, spanning investments, pensions, mortgages, annuities and more. This role is literally an opportunity to change the way the UK public goes about managing its wealth.
Description: #URL_c6e7f4ed22e82b57a29d7d1fa8d4fd9846364cb607bb49967a9a42d3cd79efe5# is a fast-growing startup that makes it easy to find well reviewed financial advisers, solicitors & soon accountants and more. We're backed by a top tier group of investors, with previous successes including Zoopla, Shazam, Betfair & LoveFilm. We are based in modern offices in SW London.We're looking for a senior API developer to join our growing team. Working on a new Symfony2 based project and coordinating all changes to our API. Delivery focused and working with our DevOps, API, Angular JS and Data developers to deliver regular high quality iterations to our site.Using a great stack of best of breed products including Puppet, Vagrant, Symfony2, Angular JS and more to develop new features and business requirements. Ideally a self starter with a great attitude, keen to use their extensive knowledge and skills to improve our technology and processes and deliver a fantastic experience for users of our software . The right candidate should have the potential to take on a more senior role in the team. 
Requirements: About you:An experienced engineer with a passion for technological innovation and improvement. You enjoy coding, solving problems efficiently and finding the right tools for the job.You have:• Significant experience of Symfony 2 or a similar MVC framework as well as PHP development• Proven expertise Developing Restful APIs• Skills in researching, discovering and evaluating existing bundles and technologies.• Used Unit Testing (PHP Unit or similar) and Continuous Build tools (Jenkins or similiar).• MySQL/Maria/Percona expertise, use of Doctrine or similar an advantage• Expert in Source Control and branching (Git, bitkbucket)• Agile Development methodologies (Scrum and Atlassian toolset)• Caching technologies (memcache, varnish, CDN's and similar)• Beneficial if you are an active opensource contributor with GitHub / Stackoverflow profile
Benefits: Competitive Salary Start-up culture - we have fun and your contributions are valued.Great working environment, coffee is key!High Spec workstation.No agencies or recruiters please.
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