Intermediate Laravel Developer Job at TechAdvance

TechAdvance is a payment application development company with a strategic focus in developing and deploying niche payment companies to serve the needs of large public and private sector organisations in Emerging markets.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Position: Intermediate Laravel Developer

Job Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Virtual
Employment Type: Part Time
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

• This role will be supporting one of our client. The incumbent will be responsible for developing, recording and maintaining cutting edge web-based applications on portal plus premium service platforms,
• He or she will build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the entire dev team.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
• Review other engineer’s code and guide architecture decisions.
• Contribute creatively to the future product roadmap.
• Building and maintain high-performance APIs and backend systems
• Write clean and maintainable code with good test coverage.
• Implement new features in collaboration with our design team.
• Optimize existing code with special attention to performance and maintainability.
• Lead writing and maintaining the documentation of code and architecture.
• Working with engineers, product managers, designers to turn bring our product vision to life.

The Ideal Person
The Ideal candidate must have:

• At least 3 years of experience building production applications with PHP / Laravel
• At least 2 years of professional experience with Laravel 5 PHP Framework
• Proficient understanding of object-oriented PHP and MVC design patterns
• Proficient knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL/MS SQL/PostgreSQL), database designing and query optimisation techniques
• Proficient understanding of RESTful API development and 3rd party integrations
• Good core knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Bootstrap framework.
• Competent in Version Control with Git, Bitbucket or GitHub
• Solid understanding of the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
• Experience in micro-services development is a plus.