Senior PHP Developer at Zercom Systems Nigeria Limited

Zercom Systems is an innovative Tech Company, utilizing state of the art technology to improve efficiency and productivity in organizations. Our Cutting Edge Technology solutions enable our clients to lower costs and deliver better value to their customers.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior PHP Developer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for a Senior Backend PHP Developer with experience in building complex platforms and APIs; who can adapt and help us stay on top of expanding technologies and engineering trends.
• A Senior Backend PHP Developer, under limited supervision, is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions to address complex business issues.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for application design, code development, testing and deployment, and maintenance
• Write well designed and optimized code
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Implement new features and maintain the existing codebase
• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product and database to ensure strong optimization and functionality.
• Develop solutions based on queries given by clients.
• Create and run ad hoc reports written in SQL and iterating through large datasets in PHP
• Tune database (indexes and schema organization).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• +3 years’ experience building full-stack web projects with a significant focus on backend code and business logic
• Recent versions of PHP (7.0 preferred or later)
• Relational database setup and use (MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle)
• Hands-on front-end development utilizing HTML, Bootstrap, CSS (or SCSS/SASS/LESS), client-side JavaScript and jQuery
• Git version control knowledge and experience
• Experience with RESTful API usage and implementation
• Server and site performance optimization experience is a plus.

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Laravel 8.0 framework (Knowledge of CodeIgniter is a plus)
• Knowledge and use of Single Page Application design and implementation, including use of front-end tools such as React JS
• Experience with Composer, NPM or other tools in the build pipeline
• Troubleshoot issues with a web server, database, security, network, and web technologies
• Customize, compile, install, configure, monitor and debug server instances, especially on NGINX and IIS
• Reporting, maintenance, and test automation tools in PHP (e.g. PHP Unit)
• Create and enhance in-house tools for website operations, support hardware & software issues.

Application Closing Date
25th January, 2022.