Senior PHP Developer

The Company:

A South African based travel and tourism platform is looking for a Senior PHP Developer. The organisation is a conservation and sustainable tourism first platform, servicing thousands of customers a year. Their team is made up of a diverse group who are passionate about sustainable tourism and creating a healthy environment so that natural landscapes are preserved and clients are not victimised by exorbitant prices. Candidates can expect their contributions to be valued and recognised.

The Role:

• Follow industry best practices to create clean, well designed code.
• Develop and maintain PHP applications that are web-based.
• Work on the existing codebase to improve its scalability.
• Maintain the existing codebase.
• Work with various stakeholders including Produce Management and the engineering team.
• Ensure performance and functionality of web based applications through troubleshooting, testing and maintenance.
• Peer review.
• Code review.
• Document the development process.
• Participate throughout the SDLC.
• Provide insights on how to improve the development process.

Experience:

• Relevant qualification benefical.
• 5 years or more PHP development experience.
• PHP.
• HTML5.
• JavaScript.
• JQuery.
• PHP MVC frameworks.
• MySQL.
• Git.
• JSON Web Services.
• Beneficial:
  • Symfony/Laravel based CMS.
  • Docker.
  • Core services of AWS.
  • Unix/Linux.
  • Apache and NGINX.
  • Salesforce programming languages.