Senior PHP Developer

About the role

A Senior PHP Developer position based in Accra, working alongside other developers to build applications that meet customer needs. The role covers turning business requirements into finished products, maintaining development and test environments, and researching advanced technologies.

Key responsibilities

• Work with other developers to produce applications that optimize customer needs
• Translate business requirements into designs and deliver finished products for release
• Maintain usable development and test environments with appropriate tools
• Research industry standards for advanced technology to use in design and development

Required profile

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a related field, with proven software development experience in PHP
• Expert development skills in the LAMP stack with Object Oriented PHP
• Experience debugging, tuning and optimizing web applications, and understanding of SQL queries and RDBMS models and tools
• Experience with web services and APIs, and with third-party APIs such as Google, Facebook and eBay
• Understanding of open source projects such as Joomla, Drupal, wikis and osCommerce

Required skills

• LAMP stack and Object Oriented PHP
• JavaScript and other JavaScript libraries, along with version control systems
• PHP frameworks
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX
• NoSQL databases

To apply, interested candidates send their CV and cover letter by email; the closing date is 22 February 2018.