PHP Developer at Africa Prudential Registrars Plc

Africa Prudential Registrars Plc ("APR") is a technology-driven Capital Market Investment Mediator [CMIM]. The company was a fully owned subsidiary of United Bank for Africa Plc. We are a standard-delivery service provider for corporate organizations in the primary and secondary sectors of the capital market. Our pedigree makes us unique. APR is a thoroughbred in share registration business in Nigeria. We have over 30 years of share registration experience in the Nigerian Capital Market.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: PHP Developer

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

About the Job

• The PHP Developer will be responsible for overseeing back-end services and data transfer between the server and users.
• The ideal candidate will be responsible for the development of the server-side logic, the establishment and upkeep of the central database, as well as guaranteeing high speed and quick response to front-end requests.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by other developers into the application.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including product, devOps, customer success, UX/UI design and senior leaders to optimize performance and customer experience.
• Develop, test, integrate and refine website/software/application/program code.
• Lead and manage the development team to ensure deadlines are met with quality deliveries.
• Ensure high levels of performance and security for company and user information.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with Service-oriented architecture (SOA), microservices, and REST APIs
• Experience with PHP
• Meaningful web development experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/Typescript
• Comfortable working on small, cross-functional, fast paced teams
• Excellent communication skills.

Skills and Abilities:
The ideal candidate for this role should be able to demonstrate:

• 3-5 Years knowledge of PHP web frameworks including Yii, Laravel, and CodeIgniter. Laravel experience is mandatory for this particular role.
• 3-5 years’ Microservice experience.
• 3-5 years' experience developing REST APIs with Laravel framework
• Proven track record of building batch processing application using PHP/Laravel.
• Advanced SQL experience, most notably MySql, Postgress or MS SQL Server.
• Ability to build CLI applications with PHP.
• Experience in deploying into cloud native environments particularly Kubernetes.
• Experience with scripting environments such as bash scripts on LINUX.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient in sprint planning, estimation, time management, and communicating status.
• Ability to project manage.
• Good problem-solving skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@africaprudential.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.