PHP Developers Travelfusion

Zip Hustle; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel content aggregator in Greater London is looking for an experienced PHP Developer. The successful candidate will write clean, scalable code and support existing systems while collaborating effectively in an Agile environment. The role offers a generous salary, annual performance bonuses, flexible hybrid working options, and various other perks, including free lunches and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous base salary

Annual performance bonus

Flexible, hybrid working

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Free lunch Tuesday & Thursday

Stocked kitchen

Subsidised BUPA after 6 months

Pension scheme

Life Insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in writing clean, scalable, and readable code.
• Strong knowledge of PHP and front-end technologies.
• Ability to work in agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Support and advance existing systems.
• Use best development techniques for tasks.
• Provide accurate technical estimates for code components.
• Report status, risks, and issues to Development Lead.
• Assist in testing and developing automated test cases.

Skills

Clean code writing

PHP/XML/HTML/CSS/JavaScript

jQuery or similar frameworks

MVC frameworks

Basic Linux knowledge (Ubuntu)

Teamwork

Strong communication

Agile experience

KDE knowledge

Job description

Travelfusion is the world’s leading travel content aggregator. Our founding vision was to become the best in the business at managing and organising the maze of travel content available online. By pioneering an innovative aggregation model, our system connects directly (using our Direct Connect XML API system) to hundreds of air, hotel, car, rail, ferry, ground transport and tour operator suppliers’ websites and their reservation systems and provides structured access to the content via a single XML API interface. Travelfusion’s Direct Connect XML API system provides the core that powers all parts of its aggregation solutions. Designed with location-based journey planning foundations, our platform also includes flexible content aggregation modules. Our developers have created a host of special tools used to manage and automate the aggregation process. Using these tools, customers and users can easily access millions of daily routes, timetables, fares, hotel descriptions, holidays and deals that have been aggregated from hundreds of travel suppliers.

We are seeking an experienced PHP Developer who can write clean, fast code to a high standard, in a timely and scalable way that will help take our ideas from conception to reality.

Responsibilities

• Support and advance existing systems
• Use the best development techniques to get the job done
• Give accurate estimates of the technical requirements to produce code components, frameworks and deliver these
• Reporting status, risks and issues to the Development Lead
• Assisting with testing of software components and development of automated test cases

Desirable Skills

• Ability to write clean, scalable, readable code
• Strong PHP/XML/HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge
• Good practical knowledge of jQuery or similar frameworks
• Experience working with MVC frameworks
• Basic knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu)
• Ability to work as an individual or in a team environment
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Experience working within an Agile environment
• Knowledge of KDE (Eclypse etc.)

We offer

• Generous base salary
• Annual performance bonus
• Annual reviews
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible, hybrid working 2-3 days per week in office
• Free lunch Tuesday & Thursday
• Stocked kitchen for breakfast, snacks, fruit, teas and Nespresso coffee
• Subsidised BUPA after 6 months
• Pension scheme
• Life Insurance