Senior PHP Software Engineer
Job Description.
As part of the Software
Engineering team, you will build software solutions across a multitude of
domains, ensuring that each project is done with scalability, maintainability,
performance, security and operational excellence in mind. You will also assist
in debugging and troubleshooting applications when issues arise in a timely
fashion. And continuously innovate: Search for a better solution. Then top it!
You will report to a
Software Engineering Manager who is on a mission to deliver high-value projects
built to world-class engineering standards. You must be based in one of these
countries Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, or Rwanda.
What you will be doing:
- Pick
up and solve more complex software development tasks.
- Contribute
to the continuous integration and delivery of applications.
- Write
clean and optimised code for primarily backend applications.
- Work
with SQL and non-relational database management systems.
- Demonstrate
strong ability to Interact or consume APIs and help design new API
services.
- Participate
in code reviews while supporting and guiding the team to deliver quality
code.
- Contribute
to client meetings and deliver the best service and technology solutions.
- Log
timesheets on Forecast.app for the billing of clients.
- Consistently
write high-quality production-ready code that is easily
testable, reusable, easily understood by other developers, and
accounts for edge cases and errors.
- Contribute
to documentation, functional specifications, and design documents when
required using the best engineering practices and leveraging the latest
technology.
- Lead
the implementation and maintenance of quality code practices including but
not limited to practising test-driven development by writing unit tests,
functional or UI tests.
What you must have:
- Excellent
knowledge of PHP, specifically PHP 7 & 8.
- Strong
knowledge of one or both more top PHP frameworks e.g. Laravel, Symfony etc.
- Extensive
knowledge of either Apache or Nginx.
- Strong
understanding of REST API design concepts & implementation in PHP.
- Good
understanding of object-oriented programming and associated concepts.
- Familiarity
with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server etc.
- Basic
understanding of potential security threats (e.g. SQL injection, XSS)
along with mitigation approaches.
- Knowledge
of cloud-native architecture.
- Good
written and verbal communication skills.
- Good
problem-solving and debugging skills.
- A
willingness to always improve
How to Apply
