PHP Developer

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PHP Developer

As a PHP Developer, your main responsibility is for the production, modification and maintenance of back end applications. This involves working closely with Website Developers and designers, to ensure the website and applications are built as specified.

You'll also work closely with Test team to test your server-side code. Your focus will be on team goals, customer value and looking at the bigger picture.

Duties & responsibilities:

Helping to build functional requirements, technical design and implement application features

Field questions and solve problems for user support and client services

Participate in design and code reviews

Integration of user-facing elements developed by the Website Developers, with server-side logic

Building reusable code and libraries for future use

Optimisation of code for maximum speed and scalability

Implementation of efficient, secure and scalable software

Build and maintain functional apps for the business

Building and modification of API's to enable system integration

Solve complex scalability, platform and integration problems

Be actively involved in company projects, to ensure the Development function is actively promoted

Personal Profile:

Excellent customer service skills

Excellent communication skills (telephone and written)

Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills

Sound judgement

Initiative

Flexible

Detail-oriented

 Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Experience:

Candidates must be fully conversant in PHP and specifically Laravel framework

Must be comfortable working withjs.

Must be conversant with both object orient and procedural coding

Candidates must be fully conversant with MySQL database design, optimisation and development (not necessarily a full DBA skillset)

Excellent knowledge of Integration and exchange protocols (ex. XML, Soap, Json etc.) essential

A knowledge of application security is desirable (preferred experience with PCI DSS compliant systems)

Basic Unix command line knowledge essential

Excellent knowledge of html5, CSS and JavaScript (jQuery) essential

Experience working with GIT

Other Information:

Reporting to: Systems & Development Manager

9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday (flexible between 8am and 6pm by agreement)

Office based