Senior PHP Web Developer - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 10-09-2014 11:28:49 AM
08-10-2014 11:28:49 AM
Senior PHP Web Developer

'Every so often an opportunity arises where one can be part of something that makes a real difference.
This is one of those. PriceCheck is a team of skilled individuals that have taken the basic ideas of online product search and made it so much more. Our solution now includes the most online stores and products, mobile e-commerce, services and more. Most things e-commerce can be found with PriceCheck. We have changed the shopping and product search to make it relevant, mobile, hyper local and current.
In the process we even got voted as the best mobile app worldwide, beating more than 100 000 other apps in the process.
We’re growing, and growing fast. And for this we’re looking for some really talented and driven individuals. If you have a desire to make a real impact with the work you do, program stuff that is ground breaking and make things happen that will have an international impact. We’re the place to be.
If this is a role that suits your skill set and you’re keen to get involved with a company that is making massive strides, apply now.'

You need to apply if any of the below excites you:
? a driven web application developer with a desire to make the bits in the back-end tick
? love finding ways to make things better, faster, stronger
? capable of finding the beauty in the GUI but prefer command line when it comes to getting things done
? comfortable using MVC but constantly dreaming up a better solution.
? keen on getting your hands dirty on a busy live production environment
? comfortable in sticking it out in the trenches with a small but dedicated team in a startup environment.
? familiar with the GOF.

Familiar tools in your toolbox probably include:
? Any Opensource orientated language as long as you have a willingness to learn and work with PHP on the LAMP stack
? Linux (you’ve done more than installing Ubuntu)
? Design patterns
? HTML5 + XHTML + JS
? XML
? JSON
? CSS2 & CSS3
? Databases
? Web Services
? Search technologies such as SOLR or Spinx

Your duties will involve but not limited to:
? Delivering next generation web applications
? Integration with 3rd party service providers
? Helping us build out our ground breaking API
? Optimising search and delivery of accurate data
? Develop and maintain existing systems to specification
? Managing and maintaining our infrastructure (we believe in dev ops, which means you know about grep)