• Application Deadline:
• Position: PHP Engineer (Senior and Intermediate)


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 4 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Job Description

Who we are looking for...

• A PHP Engineer seeking an opportunity to develop and create cutting-edge solutions for our products and services, while being part of something extraordinary.

What You Will Do...

• Develop new web applications using customized, open-source, and off-the-shelf applications and components.


• Maintain and enhance existing web applications and all internal integrated systems.


• Deliver new functionality and change requests for existing applications.


• Participate in the ongoing development of applications that meet the needs of our customers.


• Design and implement user-driven templates, databases and interfaces (for ease of use).


• Develop database-driven web interfaces for rapid, real-time information sharing.


• Develop external web portals allowing users to input and retrieve accurate information.

Qualifications

What you bring?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related discipline.


• 4+ years PHP development experience


• Recent versions of PHP (7.x preferred)


• Relational database setup and use (MySQL 5.6 or later)


• Hands-on front-end development utilizing HTML, CSS (or SCSS/SASS/LESS), client-side JavaScript and jQuery


• Git version control knowledge and experience


• Experience with RESTful API usage and implementation; experience creating/documenting an API is a plus


• Experience with Redis (or other NoSQL key-value store) is a plus


• Server and site performance optimization experience is a plus


• Preferred full-stack developer, but willing to mentor on needed areas

Additional Preferred Skills

• Laravel 5.x framework (or other similar MVC)


• Knowledge and use of Single Page Application design and implementation, including use of front-end tools such as CanJS, Vue, Aurelia, or Angular JS


• Experience with queues/workers in a distributed workload system (e.g. Beanstalkd, RabbitMQ, Iron.io, Amazon SQS) is a plus


• Experience with Composer, NPM, Gulp, Grunt, or other tools in the build pipeline


• Troubleshoot issues with web server, database, security, network, and web technologies


• Customize, compile, install, configure, monitor and debug server instances, especially on NGINX


• Reporting, maintenance, and test automation tools in PHP (e.g. PHPUnit)


• Create and enhance in-house tools for website operations, support hardware & software issues


• Experience with customer & end-user support of online products; web, graphic and usability design