PHP Engineer (Senior and Intermediate) at Cavista

Cavista is a global technology company creating cloud-based software solutions for clients. With operations around the world, we globalize, standardize and localize our processes, while at the same time remaining sensitive to specific needs in different regions. Our mission is to empower organizations with the world’s best technology solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: PHP Engineer (Senior and Intermediate)

Locations: Ilupeju, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
Who we are looking for:

• A PHP Engineer seeking an opportunity to develop and create cutting-edge solutions for our products and services, while being part of something extraordinary.

What You Will Do

• Develop new web applications using customized, open-source, and off-the-shelf applications and components.
• Maintain and enhance existing web applications and all internal integrated systems.
• Deliver new functionality and change requests for existing applications.
• Participate in the ongoing development of applications that meet the needs of our customers.
• Design and implement user-driven templates, databases and interfaces (for ease of use).
• Develop database-driven web interfaces for rapid, real-time information sharing.
• Develop external web portals allowing users to input and retrieve accurate information.

Qualifications
What you bring?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related discipline.
• 4+ years PHP development experience
• Recent versions of PHP (7.x preferred)
• Relational database setup and use (MySQL 5.6 or later)
• Hands-on front-end development utilizing HTML, CSS (or SCSS/SASS/LESS), client-side JavaScript and jQuery
• Git version control knowledge and experience
• Experience with RESTful API usage and implementation; experience creating/documenting an API is a plus
• Experience with Redis (or other NoSQL key-value store) is a plus
• Server and site performance optimization experience is a plus
• Preferred full-stack developer, but willing to mentor on needed areas

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Laravel 5.x framework (or other similar MVC)
• Knowledge and use of Single Page Application design and implementation, including use of front-end tools such as CanJS, Vue, Aurelia, or Angular JS
• Experience with queues/workers in a distributed workload system (e.g. Beanstalkd, RabbitMQ, Iron.io, Amazon SQS) is a plus
• Experience with Composer, NPM, Gulp, Grunt, or other tools in the build pipeline
• Troubleshoot issues with web server, database, security, network, and web technologies
• Customize, compile, install, configure, monitor and debug server instances, especially on NGINX
• Reporting, maintenance, and test automation tools in PHP (e.g. PHPUnit)
• Create and enhance in-house tools for website operations, support hardware & software issues
• Experience with customer & end-user support of online products; web, graphic and usability design

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.