Intermediate: PHP Developer at MiWay Insurance Limited

What will make you successful in this role?

Minimum Qualification Required:

• Matric
• Relevant IT degree or diploma will get preference

Minimum Experience:

• 5+ years of development experience in software development
• Strong PHP background and expertise in related open-source technologies
• Working experience with PHP related projects with exposure to PHP 7.4 or greater
• Knowledge of MVC orientated PHP frameworks (with additional preference to Symfony 5 or greater)
• Good understanding and working experience with JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks and libraries (with additional preference to Vue.js, Nuxt.js and jQuery)
• Solid understanding of serving and consuming web services (SOAP/REST)
• Solid understanding of web application architecture
• Good understanding of software development design patterns
• Understanding of software tools used in the development process, namely, code versioning (Git), release management (Bitbucket) and issue tracking (JIRA)
• Knowledge and working experience with Agile Software Development Methodologies such as Scrum/Kanban

Deliverables include, but will not be limited to:

• Plan, design and develop solutions within a team
• Conduct or assist with code quality reviews of solutions
• Conduct or assist with troubleshooting and debugging of developed solutions in development and production environments
• Attend and provide input in team and stakeholder meetings relating to technical and architecture requirements
• Conduct internal knowledge sharing sessions on developed solutions and best practises
• Contribute towards well documented, quality, tested and reusable code, ensuring development is followed through to completion that is in accordance with team standards and the solution specification

Competencies Required:

• An intermediate developer should be comfortable working on, and completing tasks on their own
• Should understand and be comfortable asking for guidance, but needs to provide at least one or two possible solutions for a problem
• In-depth understanding of code quality, coding standards and maintainability
• Readiness to understand the system architecture
• Should understand (and try to implement) design patterns and principles (such as the SOLID principles)
• Ability to work on multiple projects (even if it takes you a while to get up to speed)
• Understand the need for, and write relevant tests for methods
• Willing to take accountability and ownership of parts of the system
• Should understand the processes followed by the team/business
• Should understand the business value (and be able to make suggestions) for a feature
• Ability to estimate the scope of a problem, with guidance from other developers if needed