Web Developer at Niiyo Ecommerce

Niiyo is an online market mall. We are well determined not only be the best and largest on-line market mall in Nigeria, but also to be most consumer friendly and offer best to our customers at best price ever. We are lunching with thousands of products, and 35 product categories. Our unbeatable prices, free shipping, secure, easy payment and buyer protection guarantee will surely encourage millions of buyers.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Web Developer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The Web Developer position is part of small focused team of talented developers.
• The team is responsible for estimating development effort, and then leading a development team to deliver quality product on time.
• The team is small and focused on building out the ecommerce and retail site structure in North America.
• Using Magento and Laravel 5.0 you get to work the best of ecommerce platforms and php frameworks.
• With the exciting fitness space there is never a lack of fresh ideas, or new development projects to jump in on.
• We have a small and very collaborative team.
• If you enjoy being involved in all facets of ideation, storyboarding, design ideas, and seeing projects through to deploy, this position is perfect for you.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership of web projects
• Architect and develop web-based application systems across many sites and brands
• Implement scalable systems that meet business requirements
• Participate in design of new products
• Coordinate with outside vendors, as needed, to accomplish goals
• Mentor and train junior developers and developers
• Enforce standards, review code, approve code for deployment
• Be a self-managing, full participant in cross-functional teams: define tasks and assignments and complete them by committed dates and timelines and help teammates do the same.
• Take the lead in setting up team meetings and coordinating with product owners.

Qualification

• Minimum of four-year degree Computer Science, Information Systems or related field OR equivalent experience.

Experience:

• 5+ years web development experience
• 3+ years of PHP experience
• 2+ years experience with e-commerce websites
• Experience writing custom web application and software required

Skills:

• Expertise with all aspects of a modern LAMP (Linux (Ubuntu 12.04), Apache, Nginx, Varnish, MySQL 5.6, PHP 5.3+) environment
• Experience with Laravel 5.0
• Expertise with Magento ecommerce platform, EAV data models, Magento API's
• Expertise with PHP 5.3 + object oriented code (Namespaces, SPL, Keywords, Magic Methods, Type Hinting)
• Expertise with SQL and relational databases with the ability to optimize queries and design schema's for large systems
• Fluency with Javascript and libraries such as jQuery and Backbone
• Experience with front-end build tools & workflows (Gulp, Bower)
• Experience with CSS frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap)
• Experience with working with source control tools: GIT, SVN.
• Experience with PHP frameworks (Symfony 2, Silex, CakePHP) and libraries (Composer, Doctrine2, Zend, PEAR)
• Working knowledge of Python and other server side scripting languages: Ruby, NodeJs, Perl, Bash a plus.
• Experience with architecture and scaling of websites, specifically e-commerce sites in the cloud (AWS, Linode, Rackspace Cloud)
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills
• Understanding and experience with agile development methods, specific experience with Scrum is an asset.
• Ability to assist non-technical staff to write requirements and develop plans
• Ability to self-organize and prioritize tasks with more than one ongoing project and see projects through to completion
• Ability to build and maintain AWS server structure. Including implementation of load balancers, elastic bean stalk, and other potential configuration.
• Implement and maintain DNS records and website security protocols.

Application Closing Date
29th May,2015

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications and CV's to: [email protected]