Passionate and driven Back End Developer needed

Job ID: 33462904

Budget: $25 – $50 USD

1-grid.com is a fast-growing web hosting company in Cape Town with an established customer base, recently acquired by recognised leaders in the Internet services industry. We have the vision and resources to be the market leader in SA in the next 5 years; this vision is supported by an entrepreneurial culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, and top performance.

1-grid is looking to hire passionate and dedicated freelance, remote Back End PHP Developers.

Requirements
Previous working experience as a PHP Developer for (5+) year(s)
Knowledge of authentication and authorization patterns
Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
Familiarity with limitations of PHP, as well as workarounds
Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Symfony, Laravel, etc.)
Good relational database skills (e.g. MySQL, MariaDB)
Proven expertise in working with API services (REST and SOAP)
Knowledge of Agile development practices (TDD, refactoring, continuous integration)
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Comfortable collaborating with other team members and stakeholders
Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., git)
Strong preference for open-source solutions


Duties and Responsibilities
Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
Build and innovative well designed and well architected applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
Design, code and maintain applications using best practices
Utilize backend services, and expand our architecture
Refactor, optimize and improve the existing codebase
Use test driven development and acceptance tests to ensure feature quality
Engage other stakeholders around all tasks, evaluations, suggestions, schedules and technical and process issues
Document the components and architecture
Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
Knowledge sharing with rest of the team
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