You love coding and building new things. You’re smart, you’re fast, and most importantly, you always get it done. Admit it, you’re a rockstar.
Mobicom Africa is looking for an experienced, energetic PHP Developer. The ideal candidate for this position has worked with high-load, high-availability websites previously and must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
About Mobicom Africa
Mobicom is a software development house that works on its own applications as well as selected EXCITING applications from other EXCITING companies.
Responsibilities:
- Work in a fast paced and highly collaborative development environment tasked with engineering improvements to our site’s features, performance and interface using PHP
- Build new features and enhancements as we scale our systems with growth.
- Prototype and implement optimization techniques and participate in design and code reviews
- Continuously improve Mobicom’s products, usability and user experience
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- At least 4+ years development experience using PHP. Experience with at least 1 PHP framework.
- Must have expertise in Object Oriented Programming, MySQL, and Web Services.
- Knowledge AJAX, HTML, JavaScript.
- Experience in developing joomla plugins, modules, components etc
- Configuration and deployment of web applications in Apache.
- Experience with full lifecycle of web development projects.
- Expertise in Internet standards (e.g. HTTP, XML, SOAP, CSS).
- Extensive experience in relational database (MySQL and query optimization).
- Experience in IT infrastructure issues (web and application server setup, load-balancing, firewalls, etc.).
- Leader and independent worker.
- Technical innovator and thought leader.
- Strong consultative skills.
- Collaborative relationship with clients and team members.
- Strong technical documentation skills.
- Excellent communication skills; written, verbal and presentation.
