Back End Web Developer

Affinity apps have quickly become some of the most well respected professional creative apps available, winning multiple awards including an Apple Design Award and App of the Year, as well as thousands of 5-star customer reviews from around the world.

Now, an exciting opportunity has become available to join the web team at Serif. The role will involve working on both existing and new projects primarily involving Serif’s e-commerce store including writing and consuming supporting API’s which help facilitate various functionality across the site.

Framework experience as well as knowledge of plain OOP PHP is essential along with a real world understanding of common design patterns and principles. The right candidate will be able to explain or demonstrate practical applications of these principles along with their limitations and trade-offs. Knowledge of relational database design is also required, you must understand the practical implications of software design when it comes to database design, indexing and caching. You should be comfortable writing raw queries in MySQL, including joins and aggregate functions on a regular basis.

As a middleweight, you will be expected to take ownership and responsibility of tasks that are assigned to you and see them through to completion to a high standard and to the quoted time.