Back-End Developer at 234Buzz Media

We are looking for a back-end web developer with excellent programming skills to join our team. We need a person who, as part of a team, can create highly scalable web apps that thousands of users interact with daily. The ideal candidate has experience building real products for the web and should be able to present examples of their work.

Responsibilities:

• Offs of different approaches, including estimating how long each will take to build
• Advanced understanding of emerging web technologies
• Maintain, contribute and adhere to our programming best practices and guidelines
• Work with a team of UI designers, programmers, and server admins, to bring brand new concepts to market
• Maintain confidentiality on all of the above, given the sensitive nature of some projects

Basic Requirements:

• Ability to program confidently in a web language (PHP, python), ultimately programming exclusively in PHP
• Knowledge of MVC architectures
• Strong knowledge of WordPress
• Strong knowledge of these databases of MySQL, MSSQL, Mongodb
• Strong knowledge of OOP concept.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Job Description

• Enthusiasm for innovation in the tech industry, including continuous learning and improvement
• Understands the technologies and languages which power the web such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Has experience with Git or another version control system

The following would be an added advantage:

• Experience with any MVC framework already
• Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs
• Experience working within Agile development environments