Lead Application Developer

We are looking for an experienced Back-end developer to join our IT team. You will be responsible for the server side of our web applications. If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. As a Back-end developer, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience. Ultimately, you should be able to develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet our company’s needs.

Responsibilities-

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and build efficient, scalable systems that are used by millions of people,
• Own what you build as you create, test, and refine what’s under the hood of our pages and services,
• Investigate production issues pertaining to customer features to determine root cause and implement solutions,
• Investigate existing queries and write new queries with performance optimization in mind,
• Build well-designed software in a way that is generic, reusable, and easily extensible, as well as solves the business needs and requirements,
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and software engineers to ensure design vision is maintained, the final markup is standards compliant, and UI deliverables are completed on time,
• Work with the real-time feedback from our users (external and internal) to make the products better,
• Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug. Repeat!

Requirements:

• 1-2 years of experience,
• Proficiency in web scripting programming with PHP,
• Experience with MySQL Databases,
• Top-notch programming skills in JavaScript and a strong understanding of web fundamentals,
• Design, build and maintain high performance, scalable and secure code,
• Experience with cloud services like AWS is plus,
• Experience with MVC architecture is a plus,
• Knowledge / experience in building an API,
• Solid understanding of the foundations of security and best practices,
• Good grasp of data structures and algorithms,
• Excellent problem-solving skills,
• Take ownership of the backend services, ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness, as well as maintaining code quality, organisation and testing/deployment,
• Passionate about technology and willing to develop expertise in an emerging field,
• Strong organisational and communication skills, team player.

Perquisites & Benefits:

• A competitive salary,
• Opportunity to be part of a diverse working environment, valuable social sector work experience,
• Fun, casual, relaxed, and flexible work environment.

You are required to possess good knowledge of PHP and experience in Laravel repository.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Work alongside a broader team with a focus on Design, UX, Optimization, Back End processes, DevOps Efficiency with the goal of delivering high-quality projects using the latest tech stack.
• A keen eye for detail, along with a passion to deliver quality, customer-focused solutions is absolutely essential.
• Championing Web Development: You will be responsible for handling web development from ideation to production.
• Collaboration with product manager and other developers, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
• Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing web products.

Key Skills:

PHP MVC Framework Laravel, API Integration and Development, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Version Control Systems, Repository Management, Basic understanding to work on AWS 

Required Experience and Qualifications:

Desired Profile:

• Great skills in PHP MVC framework Laravel.
• Extensive Experience in API integration and development is required.
• Experience in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript is required.
• Experienced with version control systems and repository management.
• Experience working and configuring AWS is a huge plus. but a basic understanding to work on AWS is required.
• Passionate about writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills and experience building consumer systems at scale.