Php Developer - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 17-10-2014 4:06:08 PM
14-11-2014 4:06:08 PM
About ALTU
Based in London with a new office in Cape Town, ALTU is building the next generation of cloud integration services. Combining identity management, cloud search and reporting, ALTU aims to give businesses all of the benefits of the cloud revolution with none of the integration headaches and security risks.

Our team has been delivering digital solutions for over ten years and is part of the Big Ideas Group Ltd, a collective of technology businesses with a turnover of over £20m, currently ranked number 33 in the Sunday Times Top 100 best companies to work for in the UK.

If you're the most enthusiastic, charming and downright brilliant web developer out there, we'll give you a career-changing job in a cool office, working with an incredibly talented team at a great tech start-up.

Package
  • R25k/month according to expertise and experience
  • Opportunity for further career development and personal growth
  • 22 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
  • Access to a medical insurance scheme and a range of other benefits including flexitime and working from home
  • Great offices in the Woodstock Exchange building in Cape Town
  • Free breakfast and snack food provided
  • Regular social events and activities 
  • Free Friday lunches
Job Description

Co-ordinate with other developers in the team to create a reliable, scalable and flexible web application, ensuring it is well tested and delivered according to the project schedule.

Assist in interpretation and understanding of project requirements and suggest technical solutions.

Be responsible for managing data and applications that are critical to our client’s business’. This requires a solid understanding of server configuration and database management.

Research and evaluate new technologies and maintain an understanding of industry best-practices with regards to application design, security and performance, database design and web development standards.

Key Experience Required
  • Must have at least two years experience of delivering PHP-based web applications
  • A solid understanding of the software development process, including use of version control and continuous integration systems.
  • Expertise in relational database design, optimisation and maintenance.
  • Excellent problem solving and extraordinary levels of common sense.
Specific Skills Preferred
  • Modern PHP MVC frameworks, ideally Zend Framework 1.
  • Doctrine ORM
  • Source code control using Git
  • Integrating web services using REST or SOAP APIs
  • Front-end and mobile web development skills including adaptive/responsive HTML5, CSS & JS
  • Development tools such as Composer, Grunt, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, LESS
  • Unit testing with PHPUnit
If you think this role sounds like you please apply asap by:
  • Hitting reply in this advert! 

Good luck and please bear in mind we receive a very high number of applications; we will endeavour to get back to all applicants, however, we thank you for understanding this is not always possible for unsuccessful applicants.

Recruiter: CompuJobs