OPG-005 - Senior Back End Developers

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Summary of the work OPG need 2 back-end developers to work with existing team of PHP Symfony 2 devs to update and maintain existing functionality and produce new features to ensure that a digital, public-facing service is iterated and improved via user first principles. Suppliers must be willing to provide evidence of essential criteria Specialist role Developer Expected Contract Length initially 12 month contract Latest start date September Maximum Day Rate £575 Who Speclialist Work With Working alongside a product owner, user researcher, user interface expert and a senior front end developer, existing symfony 2 devs What Specialists Work On OPG need 2 back-end developers to work with the existing team of PHP Symfony 2 devs to update and maintain existing functionality and produce new features to ensure that a digital, public-facing service is iterated and improved via user first principles. This role is based primarily in Nottingham, but may involve some travel between Birmingham and London. Some colocation is required but flexible/home working options are available. Skills & Experience • 3+ Years acting as a senior developer in a strong Object Orientated PHP environment. • Experience building server-side web applications and detailed knowledge of PHP. • Good knowledge of Symfony 2 • Experience with PHPUnit tests and mocking objects • Experience of Doctrine 2 and Doctrine migrations. • Knowledge of relational databases systems (particularly PostgreSQL) • Outstanding ability to develop efficient, highly optimised and clear code. • Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behaviour and performance. • Working within an agile environment. • Knowledge of the Git version control system • Experience of Continuous integration (preferably with Jenkins) Nice to Haves • Experience of BDD and automated user acceptance testing Behat 3. • Experience of Docker used for local development and staging environment. • Act as a “tech lead” on complex projects, providing support for product and delivery management and pragmatically weighing the complexities involved against the need to act • Experience of mentoring or helping colleagues optimise their code • System administration and configuration management skills • Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage • Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs • Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage • Experience with Mockery mocking framework, JMS serialiser library Work Location This role is based primarily in Nottingham, but may involve some travel between Birmingham and London. Some colocation is required but flexible/home working options are available. Working Arrangments onsite a minimum of 3 days a week, preferably in the Nottingham office, but with flexibility to work from other locations for the rest of the week including home-working Security Clearance Baseline security clearance e.g. DBS or Disclosure Scotland will be required initially, but applicants must be willing to submit to National Security Clearance. For more information see: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance No. of Specialists to Evaluate 4 Cultural Fit Criteria Working within an agile environment. Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 5% Price 35% Questions from Suppliers 1. **Minor amendment** Please note that candidates who pass the shortlist will be evaluated through both work history and interview. 2. Dear Sirs, we note that the requirement states that developers should be eligible for SC - "Baseline security clearance e.g. DBS or Disclosure Scotland will be required initially, but applicants must be willing to submit to National Security Clearance." is this an essential requirement from day one, or will you accept staff at the early stage who only comply with DBS but who can then hand over if required to SC staff? Thank you for your question. I'm sorry, but we can only accept candidates that will be eligible for SC and available to submit to National Security Clearance from day one. With thanks,Andrew