Job Openings at Cavalry Media

Job description

Cavalry Media is looking for a mid-level web developer to join our Johannesburg based team. We’re looking for someone who has a passion for creating exceptional online experiences and that wants to be part of an exceptional development team.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years web development experience
• Solid working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
• Strong responsive design knowledge
• Creating html that is SEO friendly
• Ability to author own JavaScript
• Experience of structuring a large JavaScript code base, modularisation and packaging
• Experience with JavaScript-based frameworks (jQuery, etc.)
• Solid knowledge of Bootstrap
• Understanding of PHP
• Development experience in system integration-driven projects and applications
• A track record of writing code that is clean, understandable and cross browser compatible
• Experience with a revision control systems such as Git
• An appreciation for the interplay of design and development (including responsive design principles)
• Experience with any of the following content management systems: ExpressionEngine, Drupal, Magento, WordPress
• Good communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Strong work ethic
• A sense of humour
• A strong portfolio of work applications without a portfolio will not be considered

Advantageous

• Advanced PHP experience
• Application development experience
• Relevant tertiary degree
• Project management experience
• Node.js or Angular.js experience
• Photoshop or Illustrator experience
• Salary is market related. No chancers

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Job description

• Are you an experienced full-stack web developer that enjoys building innovative web applications, websites and mobile apps, but also likes to manage a team and connect with clients?
• Do you want to work on rewarding and lively projects that make for entertaining days and require creative (and fun!) problem solving?
• Then you may be the all-rounder who joins our pioneering dev team in a room-to-grow management role.

What we require:

Someone with a minimum of five years’ dev experience who can comfortably pick up our tech stack, which largely involves Unix-based server technologies and API-rich environments.

A good communicator who’s presentable: We need you to write to, chat to, and see clients. Someone who’s tech-focused but also chatty and friendly: We need you to code but also manage team members and build relationships.

Server-side tech favourites:

• MySQL
• MSSQL
• PHP
• Node.js
• Zend and Laravel Framework experience a plus
• Client-side enjoyables:
• HTML
• CSS (including LESS and SASS)
• JavaScript (jQuery, Angular)
• Bootstrap framework familiar
• Other helpful skills:
• Experience with moulding FSD documents
• Guiding client thinking
• Able API integrator (web services, SOAP and REST-ful APIs)
• Experience with agile development frameworks (SCRUM, iterative development, JIRA)
• Code optimisation experience
• Graphic and UI optimisation experience
• Database optimisation and maintenance experience
• What do you get?
• The chance to use all your skills and traits and not be boxed into a same-thing-different-day tech environment
• The I-get-to-use-my-brain joys of working on and running projects that have depth and require imagination, learning and solution-finding
• A market-related salary, a relaxed working culture and the worthwhile experience of being part of a vibrant start-up