PHP Programmer

PHP programmer
We are a fast growing renewable energy information company with offices in UK and China. Our technical team consists of an IT manager and 2 PHP programmers - and the team has a very large backlog of work (hence the need for more manpower).
We need an experienced programmer to join us in China. Ideally we would like someone to stay for many years, but we can accept a 12-month fixed contract for an expert who doesn t want to be away from home for too long.
ENF has been operating for 4 years, and we now have 30 staff. Our company has the world € s most popular website for information about companies in the solar power industry (our website is in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese and Japanese), we have a team of people making market research reports profiling the companies in the industry and we have a trade team assisting Western companies to purchase from Chinese manufacturers.
The job is in a city called Wuhu, which has low pollution and has less crime than England.
Compensation
ENF will provide accommodation within a shared apartment with other employees. Salary will be low compared to UK but it will be around double the salary we pay to our Chinese staff and allows for a comfortable lifestyle in China. ENF will pay for your flight to and from China, and your visa application fees.
Although the salary is not competitive compared to UK jobs, this can be a very nice way to ride out the recession working in a completely new culture and helping to save the world at the same time (our free directory is the best in the world and helps the solar power industry be more profitable).
Key Skill Requirements
The candidate doesn € t need to be able to speak any Chinese as all employees are fluent in English.
We would like candidates with strong knowledge/abilities in:
- Javascript
- MySQL
We want someone with strong PHP skills that can work on fairly difficult programming tasks without needing assistance from the other programmers (we want a candidate with enough skills to be giving advice all the time, not needing to ask for advice).
Job Details
The job will be to work in ENF s IT department, developing our multi-language PV directory € making new advanced modules for the website and improving our custom-built back-end systems.
Further Information about Wuhu
It is important for us that our new staff are stable and happy, so we would like to point out a few potential negatives to potential candidates:
- There is little night life and bars in the city as Chinese people prefer to drink in restaurants. This means that people who like to go out drinking a lot will be disappointed with the social options.
- We are based in real China. Unlike Beijing and Shanghai, there are very few foreigners in Wuhu so if you just want to hang around with Europeans only there won t be much choice.
On the positive side the city is well developed and clean. There are some global supermarket chains in the city showing food labels in English, and large department stores which make shopping easy.
Although there is only one English-language TV channel, the company has a DVD library with over 1000 DVDs for the staff to borrow.
Note: We do not want any applications from Chinese nationals at this time. We will be recruiting new Chinese staff in Q4 2022, and Chinese nationals are invited to keep an eye on the famous job websites in China for these opportunities.
Please apply in English to: hr@enf.cn, using € PHP programmer € in the subject line.