Senior PHP Developer (Remote) at Datafin Recruitment

DUTIES:

Software Development & Improvement 

• Development of new product features, according to business requirements.
• Correct and thorough understanding and implementation of business specifications.
• Raise any specification flaws or possible improvements.
• Effectively determine the technical tasks required to implement the requirement. i.e., DB changes affected components.
• Create detailed subtasks in Jira to describe actions.
• Analyse product performance and recommend and implement improvements.
• Periodically investigate and remedy unexpected application exceptions.
• Create technical documentation for significant product/product feature implementations.
• Perform continuous research of new technologies that might benefit the architecture.
• Participation in design reviews and providing input on requirements, product design, and potential problems.
• Identify possible risks posed by implementing software requirements.
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software along with the databases to ensure strong functionality and optimization.
• Perform bug fixes.

Code Quality

• Produce clean, efficient code based on expected standards.
• Ensure that code adheres to best practices, and non-deprecated methods for most up to date solutions and robust implementation of tasks.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and technology developments and teach other Developers how to incorporate new trends.
• Conduct code reviews for other Developers.

Data scripts and imports

• Create and manage RTM data scripts.
• Import new data sources from scratch.
• End-to-end management of new data sources.
• Create client CMD.
• Innovative contribution and troubleshooting to improve processes and efficiencies through ongoing development.

Data extraction 

• Develop new extracts with complete understanding of code formulations.
• Develop extracts from scratch.
• System cleaning and stopping extracts that slow the software.

Client brand code mapping

• Setup and manage clients to expand on.
• Create and manage attributes for customer brands and locations.

Data Ingestion 

• Clean data that is sent to suppliers’ global portals for internal analytics.
• Perform the recurring client extracts.

Dashboards and SFA 

• Build dashboard according to scoping document.
• Responsible for Front and Back-end Development.
• Build data hygiene reports and dashboards.
• Build data mapping reports and dashboards.
• Implement brand and location search filters.
• Design, create and implement reporting templates.
• Manage any SFA development request that the company receive from the client.
• Maintain the SFA Dashboards and data.
• Build and create new SFA Dashboards.
• Manage database and incoming stream of incoming data.

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications 

• BSc. Computer Science or similar.

Experience/Skills 

• 8+ Years in creating PHP software from scratch.
• 8+ Years working with big databases.
• Tech Stack: PHP, MySQL or MariaDB, CodeIgniter or Laravel, CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, Linux systems.
• Understanding of Agile / Scrum ways of work.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.