Web / App Developer at Preston Associates for International Development (PAID)

Preston Associates for International Development (formerly Preston Healthcare Consulting) is a development sector research organization that was established in 2013. We specialize in offering technical support to our clients in the areas of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning across the development sector spectrum.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Web / App Developer

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and Responsibilities

• Establishing and guiding the organisation’s website and app architecture.
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS.
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and/or plugin.
• Build websites, prototypes and applications using the latest front- end and back-end technologies.
• Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites.
• Working closely with both the design and project resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception right through to delivery.
• Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice.
• Self-motivated, goal oriented and able to work in a team environment.
• Designing visual concepts using graphic design tools including design software

Required Skills and Experience

• Proficiency in the use of flutter.
• Proficiency in java script.
• Ability to incorporate APIs into the development of the apps as well as AI tools
• Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best practice & de-facto standard plugins.
• Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
• Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions as well as ability to customize WordPress to support specific functionality, create custom post types and create plugins/widgets written to conform with WordPress coding standards.
• Creation of clean, logical, well-documented and reusable code.
• Familiar with cPanel configuration and troubleshooting
• Experience creating multilingual websites.
• Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues.
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience designing and developing responsive design web sites
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wire-frames into working HTML pages
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Knowledge of different PHP frameworks, libraries, or any other technology relevant to WordPress Multisite
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.

Application Closing Date
4th August, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: gchrinfo@prestonassociate.com and copy: c.anowai@prestonassociate.com using "Web / App Developer" as the subject of the mail.