Senior Web Developer at Kerridge Commercial Systems South Africa

The innovative, diverse and motivated development Team at KCS is currently looking to welcome an experienced Senior PHP Web Developer to create and implement client-side solutions on top of the KCS Ecommerce Products.

Exciting new projects and client experiences have meant that, we are looking to grow the team and our incredible footprint. As a market leader in developing and delivering fully integrated ecommerce solutions, our mission is simple: to design, implement and support high performance systems that enable our customers to sell their products online, as well as giving their customers access to their account. Essentially creating and innovating the customer experience.

As a Senior Web Developer in this fast paced, creative team, you will create and implement client-side solutions on top of the KCS Ecommerce Products.

Main Duties And Responsibilities Of This Role Include

• Using PHP to produce user-friendly HTML web solutions.
• Collaboration with other members of the team to improve usability on existing and new projects.
• Working with the front-end developers with coding and investigation of issues.
• Working with colleagues in other KCS teams with integration into ERP systems
• Ensuring high-quality and efficient/optimized source code to maximize response times, and a slick user experience.
• Maintain existing projects.
• Liaising with clients where necessary.

Key Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Qualities

• Experience in the following technologies
• PHP
• JQuery
• HTML
• Less/CSS/Flexbox
• Apache
• MySQL/MariaDB
• Linux (maintaining local website distributions)
• Git
• Proven work experience in a Web Developer role
• Experience in browser testing and debugging (e.g. Chrome Console)
• Knowledge of SEO and its implementation
• Knowledge of eCommerce
• Experience of mentoring and supervising developers
• Writing technical specifications

Ideal Experience & Knowledge

• Twig templating
• Zend Framework/Laminas
• MVC
• Composer
• Bower
• Bootsrap
• JIRA
• Automated release procedures
• Agile
• JSON-LD rich snippets
• Full stack development
• Photoshop/Gimp
• Mobile and desktop design practices
• Web Services - SOAP/Restful/JSON/XML
• A/B Testing
• ASP.NET / C# / SQL Server /

Skills & Qualities

• The ability to communicate ideas clearly, both verbally and via documentation.
• The ability to work alone and collaborate remotely.
• The ability to adapt to changing priorities.
• The ability to learn new/existing technologies.
• Have experience of working in Linux environment and servers.
• Please provide URL links to eCommerce websites that you have worked on.