PHP Developer

Bright Creations

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build test and deliver the core frontend and backend modules using Phalcon
• Collaborate with the business to define, design and ship new features
• Write clean, beautifully architected, reusable and maintainable code using robust software architectural patterns MVC, Repository Pattern, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) patterns as required in components
• Develop organized APIs and RESTful services for the main core application
• Integrate with other third party APIs to retrieve and manage third party data
• Store, retrieve and update data in the database using ORM on MySQL and MongoDB
• Write unit tests for all code developed before pushing to code repository and covers all cases
• Ensuring consistent code, error management and logging architecture between core services and the frontend applications
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Cache responses to improve performance using Redis and other caching solutions
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Continuously discover, evaluate and implement new libraries to maximize development efficiency
• Maintain and update DevOps scripts using GitLab Yaml

Engineering Requirements

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science
• 3+ years experience developing PHP applications
• 2+ years experience developing Phalcon applications
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Excellent understanding of software design patterns and how to write clean code
• Excellent knowledge and proficient in PHP and Phalcon
• Familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Excellent understanding of design patterns including MVC, Repository Pattern, DAO, Singleton, Mediator and more.
• Excellent understanding of Eloquent, Eloquent models and more
• Experience with caching using Redis
• Excellent understanding of writing code which fails gracefully and accommodates for proper error handling and logging mechanisms
• Experience developing RESTful APIs to connect frontend applications to back-end services as well as other third-party services
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• Experience of source control system using GIT
• Familiarity with continuous integration, Gitlab CI and YAML is a plus
• Aware and able to quickly find the right libraries and frameworks to achieve tasks quickly and easily without re-inventing the wheel