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PHP Developer

Rebellion Developments, a leading independent media and games company, are seeking motivated PHP Web Developers at all levels of experience. You will be expected to contribute to design processes, share ideas with the team, produce high quality code and maintain existing and legacy code.

For this Experienced role, we are looking for a minimum 2 years of professional experience and strong performance in our pre-interview test (if you have some experience but much less than 2 years then do check out our Junior PHP Developer role instead).

A strong academic background is also preferred, with a degree in computing, science, mathematics or similar or equivalent industry experience. Games industry experience is not required as this is not a games-development role.

This role is full-time, based in-house at our Oxford headquarters. We can consider permanent or in-house contract employment but not freelance or agencies. You must be able to legally work in the UK.

You will be joining an existing internal web development team to:

• Participate in the design and implementation of PHP websites, applications and services
• Maintain and improve legacy code
• Create and maintain new reusable company code libraries
• Work to deadlines whilst maintaining a high quality of coding, adhering to company coding standards and guidelines
• Communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders

Requirements

Essential:

• Excellent PHP, MySQL and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge and experience of OOP and MVC frameworks (ideally Laravel)
• High self-motivation and initiative- taking
• Good knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript (including jQuery)
• Good communication and team-working skills
• Familiarity with use of IDEs, debugging, logging, automated testing (PHPUnit, TDD), and version control systems (Git, Perforce, SVN)
• Basic knowledge of linux OS and command line tools

• Good knowledge of network protocols
• Linux server administration experience
• Experience of Agile development methods (Scrum, Kanban, DSDM)
• Experience working with and implementing 3rd party APIs (eg. Facebook)
• Front-end design flair

Benefits

• Holidays: 25 days paid annual leave plus all bank holidays (33 days total)
• Relocation: reasonable pre-agreed costs eg belongings, transport, non-refundable agency fees, etc
• Pension: contributory pension scheme where company matches 4%, salary sacrifice so saves on tax & NI
• Cycle Scheme: spread bike payments over 12 months, salary sacrifice so saves on tax & NI
• Eye Test Vouchers: free eye tests and additional discounts on glasses/contact lenses
• Introduction bonus: £2k for internal staff referrals that lead to hires
• Loans: Up to £1k interest free personal loans
• Free Stuff: fresh fruit, Rebellion Steam titles, GDC Vault access, digital 2000AD/Solaris/Abaddon/Ravenstone copies, game and film library
• Discounts: 50% off most 2000AD merchandise, discounted membership at The Athlete Centre gym 200 metres from Oxford studio
• Culture: friendly, creative and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and recognition of the importance of work-life balance
• Social: annual company events (Summer BBQ & Christmas Party), various ad-hoc events and out-of-hours social groups such as photography, board games, football, baking, etc

• Oxford Location: local pub, M&S and Waitrose, 5 minute walk to train station and 15 minute walk to city centre
• Hours: flexible start and finish times (core hours 10am-4pm with 7.5 working hours overall plus 1 hour for lunch