Intermediate Laravel Developer at TechAdvance Limited

TechAdvance is a payment application development company with a strategic focus in developing and deploying niche payment companies to serve the needs of large public and private sector organisations in Emerging markets.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Intermediate Laravel Developer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Virtual
Employment Type: Part Time
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

This role will be supporting one of our client. The incumbent will be responsible for developing, recording and maintaintng cutting edge web-based applications on portal plus premium service platforms,
He or she will build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the the entire dev team.

Responsibilities

Designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
Building and maintain high-performance APIs and backend systems
Write clean and maintainable code with good test coverage.
Implement new features in collaboration with our design team.
Optimize existing code with special attention to performance and maintainability.
Lead writing and maintaining the documentation of code and architecture.
Review other engineer’s code and guide architecture decisions.
Contribute creatively to the future product roadmap.
Working with engineers, product managers, designers to turn bring our product vision to life.

The Ideal Person
The Ideal candidate must have:

At least 3 years of experience building production applications with PHP / Laravel
At least 2 years of professional experience with Laravel 5 PHP Framework
Proficient understanding of object-oriented PHP and MVC design patterns
Proficient knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL/MS SQL/PostgreSQL), database designing and query optimisation techniques
Proficient understanding of RESTful API development and 3rd party integrations
Good core knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Bootstrap framework.
Competent in Version Control with Git,Bitbucket or GitHub
Solid understanding of the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
Experience in micro-services development is a plus.