PHP Developer at Smartflow Technologies Limited

Location: Ikeja, Lagos

Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Refactor, optimize and improve the existing codebase for maintenance and scale
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development team and project manager
• Write all object-oriented PHP and SQL in a clean and fast manner.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related discipline.
• 3+ years PHP development experience
• Good experience of Laravel PHP Framework.
• User authentication and authorisation between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Excellent relational database skills with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL etc.
• Experience with building restful API web services
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Good experience with Agile Development Methodologies
• Great hands-on front-end development utilising HTML, CSS (or SCSS/SASS/LESS), client-side JavaScript framework (VueJS, ReactJS)
• Understanding data accessibility and security compliance
• Strong knowledge of the NGINX web server management
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience with queues/workers in a distributed workload system (e.g.RabbitMQ, Redis, Amazon SQS) is a plus
• Good experience with AWS Cloud Services and DevOps is a good plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.