Vacancy for Senior PHP Developer at Jumia Nigeria

Jumia Nigeria  is seeking to employ suitable and qualified applicants to fill the position of Senior PHP Developer .

The Position is based in Nigeria.

Job Description

  • Be part of an agile team that develops smart logistics solutions on a service oriented architecture using state-of-the-art technologies
  • In particular you will:
  • Work closely with a multidisciplinary team (Backend developers, DevOps, QA engineers, Product Owners) oriented to continuous delivery
  • Work across the entire product life cycle: concept, design, development, deployment, testing, release, support
  • Write module, well-organized code.
  • Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications
  • Take ownership for your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews.
  • Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
  • Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
  • Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems

Professional Skills & Qualifications

  • Minimum 3 years experience in web development with Object Oriented Programming
  • Excellent knowledge of PHP5 or other OOP language
  • Proficient with MySQL or other leading RDBMS
  • Experienced in web server-side and client-side technologies
  • Working knowledge of MVC frameworks (Zend Framework, Yii, Symfony2 or similar)
  • Clear understanding of the Internet Protocol Suite
  • Experienced in Version Control technologies (GIT, SVN)
  • Aware of Performance and Security topics on web development

Required Skills:

  • Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
  • User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
  • Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
  • Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
  • Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team

We Offer

  • A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
  • The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
  • An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures

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