PHP Expert is wanted for a position with a well-established company in the Johannesburg North area. The client is looking for a self-motivated candidate who is a great communicator and who is well organised and who has a GREAT personality.

*No applications will be considered after 15 July 2015

Qualifications & Experience:
• BSc degree in relevant field

Skills & knowledge:
• Reporting to the development team lead
• Form part of the core aggregation team
• Take product designs into system designs and implement
• Implement new API/Service functionality
• Implement/assist with new device implementations
• Perform high level system operations tasks (code deployments, updates, etc.)
• Join the final tier support roster for operational incidents
• Required to review peer code and provide insight and ideas where applicable
• PHP (Expert, 4+ Years) including frameworks
• MySQL (Advanced, 3+ Years) including large datasets (100GB+ to TB+ datasets)
• HTML/CSS (Intermediate, 3+ Years)
• JavaScript (Intermediate, 3+ Years)
• Linux competency with scripting experience (Advanced 2+ Years)
• Networking and DNS (Intermediate)
• Version control systems – CVS/SVN/Git (Intermediate)
• Must have experience using web services (REST, SOAP, etc.)
• Good communication skills
• Self-starter
• Passion for technology

Beneficial Competencies
• CakePHP experience is preferred
• Large scale multi-server MySQL replication / cluster experience
• C / C++ experience
• Python experience
• Kannel and SMPP experience
• Any networking qualifications
• iOS (Objective C) experience
• Android (Java) experience
• Windows Mobile (.NET) experience
• BlackBerry (Java) experience

*Please send through recent payslip with your application and your skills matrix
*This position closes on the 15 July 2015