Senior PHP Developer

We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities:

Application development includes database migrations, seeding, stored procedures, and functions.

Unit testing as well along with automated PHP unit test cases.

Propose solutions to clients, implement solutions, and document them with comments in code as per standards.

Develop, record, and maintain cutting-edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms

Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team

Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications

Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools

Utilize backend data services and contribute to increasing existing data services API

Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post-launch support

Refactor, optimize and improve the existing codebase for maintenance and scale

Use test-driven development and acceptance tests to ensure feature quality

Interface with customer and internal teams to gather requirements and develop software solutions

Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, and schedules along with technical and process issues

Document the development process, architecture, and standard components

Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serve as a liaison between development staff and project manager

Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

Requirements:Must have:

Excellent OOP concept and design patterns

User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workaround

Proficient in PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery Expert, VueJS

Must have Laravel framework experience & angular

Excellent relational database skills with MySQL with hands-on stored procedures & functions.

Experience with building restful JSON web services

Knowledge of APIs, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google maps, Instagram, etc.

Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap

Nice to have:

Experience with other PHP MVC frameworks (Symfony, Kohana, CodeIgniter, Zend, etc.)

NodeJS, expressJS, WordPress, WordPress plugin development, socket.io, nosql (mongodb, graphSQL), reactJS

Previous working experience as a PHP Developer for 4-5 years

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar relevant field