Senior PHP Developer at Zercom Systems

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

Job Description

• We are looking for a Senior Backend PHP Developer with experience in building complex platforms and APIs; who can adapt and help us stay on top of expanding technologies and engineering trends.
• A Senior Backend PHP Developer, under limited supervision, is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions to address complex business issues.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for application design, code development, testing and deployment, and maintenance
• Write well designed and optimized code
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Implement new features and maintain the existing codebase
• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product and database to ensure strong optimization and functionality.
• Develop solutions based on queries given by clients.
• Create and run ad hoc reports written in SQL and iterating through large datasets in PHP
• Tune database (indexes and schema organization).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• +3 years’ experience building full-stack web projects with a significant focus on backend code and business logic
• Recent versions of PHP (7.0 preferred or later)
• Relational database setup and use (MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle)
• Hands-on front-end development utilizing HTML, Bootstrap, CSS (or SCSS/SASS/LESS), client-side JavaScript and jQuery
• Git version control knowledge and experience
• Experience with RESTful API usage and implementation
• Server and site performance optimization experience is a plus.

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Laravel 8.0 framework (Knowledge of CodeIgniter is a plus)
• Knowledge and use of Single Page Application design and implementation, including use of front-end tools such as React JS
• Experience with Composer, NPM or other tools in the build pipeline
• Troubleshoot issues with a web server, database, security, network, and web technologies
• Customize, compile, install, configure, monitor and debug server instances, especially on NGINX and IIS
• Reporting, maintenance, and test automation tools in PHP (e.g. PHP Unit)
• Create and enhance in-house tools for website operations, support hardware & software issues.