PHP Developer – Contract recruitment

The Company

Bloomberg is the world's most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® 24-hour network delivers smart television to more than 240 million homes. BLOOMBERG RADIO® services broadcast via SIRIUS XM Radio and 1worldspaceTM satellite radio globally and on WBBR 1130AM in New York. The award-winning monthly BLOOMBERG MARKETS® magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine and the BLOOMBERG.COM® financial news and information Web site provide news and insight to businesses and investors.

The Role

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) requires a confident, enthusiastic developer to join our team. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and an entrepreneurial spirit allowing them to work directly with our business managers to specify, develop and deliver new functionality. This person will be working on the full software project lifecycle in an agile environment.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) is the world's leading provider of research to investors in renewable energy, biofuels, low-carbon technologies and the carbon markets. The company's research staff of 50 (based in London, Washington, New York, Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, Tel Aviv and Perth) tracks deal flow in venture capital, private equity, MA, public markets, asset finance and carbon credits around the world.

After five years of extremely rapid growth New Energy Finance was acquired by Bloomberg at the end of 2009. Bloomberg is one of the world's leading information providers whose pioneering use of technology and vibrant culture have delivered 20 years of explosive growth. We are extremely excited by the new opportunities offered by bringing New Energy Finance into Bloomberg and the next few years will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure.

Working in a global, corporate environment, you will be part of a team of experienced back-end PHP developers. You will be passionate about new technologies and software design methodologies and always looking for creative new ways to tackle problems. The exact skillset required for this role is reasonably flexible. The role will be split between maintenance of older sections, fixing bugs and inconsistencies and also in creating new sections and features for the website.

Essential

* Advanced OO PHP 5.3+

* Advanced PHP Design Patterns

* Advanced MySQL - Views, Procedures, InnoDB, Replication

* MVC Framework (Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, Symphony)

* Jquery

* JavaScript

* Test Driven Development using PHP Unit

* Competent at UNIX CLI usage

* SVN / GIT

* Able to manage own work load effectively

* Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues

Desirable but not essential

* Kanban / Agile

* Experience with CI - Jenkins / Hudson

* Experience with Selenium

* Experience with Messaging / Queuing Systems

* Apache Configuration

* Experience with working with distributed applications, replication and failover

* Experience working in a corporate / financial sector

Bloomberg is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other classification protected by law.