Senior Full Stack Developer

Minimum requirements:

• 5+ years previous experience as a Full Stack Developer.
• Experience in full-lifecycle product management.
• Strong understanding of PHP, AngularJS, React, and Node.js.
• Experience with JS-based tools including Bower, Grunt and Gulp.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g. Git).
• Strong preference for or deep understanding of open-source solutions.
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (e.g. Symfony, Laravel).
• Experience with Agile development practices (TDD, refactoring, continuous integration).

Key Competencies

• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to work unsupervised, or with a team as required, and to collaborate effectively with other team members and stakeholders.
• An almost unhealthy level of enthusiasm for good documentation.
• Organised, flexible, and a self-starter.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• No ego a willingness to pitch in and get the job done.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing software systems, applications and components.
• Learn the business domain and participate in the requirements gathering process.
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimisation and functionality.
• Participate in the agile software development lifecycle, including but not limited to solutions review, validations and retrospective meetings.
• Utilise backend services, and expand our architecture.
• Refactor, optimise 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.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development, and engage in knowledge sharing with the team.