Senior Back End Developer - Johannesburg
Salary Negotiable
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Johannesburg,
Gauteng
more than 14 days ago
28-03-2014 4:09:15 PM
25-04-2014 4:09:15 PM
Our Client offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced, ambitious developer to join their team. They are looking for a smart, driven and passionate candidate to provide best solutions to Clients.
Responsibilities:- Develop the long term digital strategy of the agency, including development of internal CMS and code library
- Deliver back end functionality and frameworks of varying complexity alongside experienced UX Directors, front end designers and developers
- Deliver outstanding digital user experiences on desktop, mobile and emerging platforms
- Debug existing code projects and improve upon them where possible and/or needed
- Develop new database driven PHP applications from start to finish
- Simplify data flow within applications
Qualifications & Experience:- Minimum 5 years’ web development experience; 2 years in a senior role
- Proven experience in PHP, MySQL, GIT, CVS or SVN
- Experience in web database admin tools such as PHPMyAdmin
- Experience in web hosting environments and related technologies
- Experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle
- Excellent knowledge of methodologies such as SCRUM, Agile development, Waterfall model, and other work-flow patterns and methodologies
- Excellent knowledge of different MAMP, WAMP and LAMP stacks
- Experience in OOP development principles
- Experience in web hosting environments and related technologies
Requirements:- Proven interpersonal and organisation abilities
- Ability to work in a varied, fast paced environment
- Willingness to work longer hours if required
- Must be a team-player, who is driven and can take initiative
- Ability to find solutions, follow trends and industry developments
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven exceptional quality of work
- Willingness to travel occasionally
- Own transport
Experience that will be an advantage:- Good understanding of JSON, XML and/or SOAP/REST
- Wordpress, Drupal / other CMS experience
- Apache2 server configuration
- Linux experience
- JavaScript MVC frameworks such as , Angular
- HTML5, CSS 3 and other front-end technologies
- Experience in ASP.Net and ASP Classic, DNN and SharePoint
- CodeIgniter, Laravel and/or othe Experience in integrating 3rd party systems such as Pastel or web services r PHP MVC frameworks experience