Mid-level PHP Developer

AECOR OVERVIEW

At Aecor, we accelerate the development of digital capabilities. In practice, that means helping ambitious organisations to build products and processes they need to close the digital skills gap within their organisation today, so that they thrive tomorrow. Our clients, who operate in a diverse range of vertical markets, rely on our experience, agility and skills to help them address some of the toughest challenges facing their businesses. We bring aboard thinkers, passionate developers and inspiring technologists to help us solve these challenges. Together, we're united by a sense of pragmatism, purpose and a deeply-held belief that digital products and technology alone won’t transform a business or save the world: its people that count. For more details, kindly visit our website: www.aecordigital.com  

PHP Developer

About the job:

As a Senior PHP Developer, you will design, architect and develop applications that delight our clients. You will work closely with Product Managers to understand the product roadmap, plan and estimate current priorities and future delivery for the project. You will own and run the day to day Scrum meetings and task management for the project development team and empower them to deliver high quality, secure and scalable products using Agile principles.

You will be leading other developers to form a project team therefore a commitment to collaborative problem solving, good leadership and good communication is essential for this role.

Responsibilities:

· Design, architect and build applications for in PHP

· Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

· Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

· Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

· Integration of data storage solutions

· Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

· Collaborate with the project team to define, design, and deliver new features

· Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

· Work to agile development methodologies delivering solid and clean code

· Delivering new functionalities, using the most appropriate tools and techniques

Skills:

· Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks such as Laravel, CakePHP

· Understand the fully synchronous behavior of PHP

· Understanding of MVC design patterns

· Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3,jQuery

· Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming

· Understanding accessibility and security compliance

· Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions

· Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

· User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

· Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

· Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds 

· Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

· Familiarity with MySQL, MongoDB

· Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

· Knowledge of CMS and e-commerce platforms like WordPress, WooCommerce,
· Drupal, Magento is not essential but preferable.