Salary: R 50,000 to R 65,000 per month (Neg - Subject Experience)
Location: Johannesburg

Outline

We’re looking to recruit a senior backend developer to support our business with the development of new features, optimisation of existing codebases and refactoring of existing systems and websites.

Candidate

We’re looking for someone with 5+ years of working experience in the web- or backend development role who have a passion for growth in the field. The ideal candidate will be self-driven, knowledgeable and able to run with projects assigned to them. We need the candidate to be able to deliver scalable, industry-standard solutions that are easily maintained and well documented. The candidate needs to have pride in the quality of the work they deliver and be passionate about good coding standards and development practices.

Requirements

A sound, practical understanding of the following development technologies are a must:

• PHP 5.4+
• MySQL5 / MariaDB / PostgreSQL
• Apache WebServer 2.2+ configuration and .htaccess directives
• Linux Server Environments
• CLI (Linux/Mac)
• API Technologies
o REST
o SOAP / XML
o JSON
• DNS & HTTP/S

A sound, practical understanding of the following development practises and methodologies are a must:
• Modern Object Oriented Programming architecture and design
• Sound Object Oriented Database Design Patterns
• MVC systems architecture
The following experience and/or skills would be advantageous for the candidate to possess:
• Git / Git-flow / Github
• PHP MVC frameworks – We use Slim, but any experience will help.
• MicroService server architecture
• Modern PHP Coding Standards
• Experience with native JavaScript
• Amazon Web Services
• Working on a Mac
• An above-average understanding of the vehicle rental industry

Specifically note:
• PHP skills must be native. If they say "PHP Laravel” you must ask if they can code native PHP without any framework and bonus to anyone who has worked with the SLIM framework 3.
• Apache setup and configuration (Virtual hosts, SSL on Apache, Experience with proxies advantageous)
• Databases admin (MySQL, Querying databases, stored procedures, custom views)
• SOAP, XML (Must be familiar with querying XML using SOAP calls)
• Creating Restful JSON API’s with PHP
• Micro service architecture (They must explain what it is and why it's important in terms of rRestful API's)
• AWS and if so which features they is familiar with eg: (Elastic beanstalk, SES, SQS, EC2)