Senior Back End Developer

at  Tbk Creative

APPLICANTS SHOULD HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience designing and implementing websites in the PHP scripting language.
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience designing and implementing WordPress themes and plugins.
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience writing, analyzing, and optimizing MySQL queries.
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience designing, architecting, and optimizing complex software systems.
• University degree or college diploma in engineering, programming, software development, software design, or web design.
• Strong understanding of design patterns, general web functions, and industry standards.
• Strong understanding and demonstrate use of AI tools for the purpose of planning, developing, documenting and testing code within digital products you deliver.
• Prior experience within a quality assurance (QA) role or QA process within a project. Knowledge of unit testing, continuous integration, and industry standards for coding styles.
• Deep functional knowledge or hands-on design experience with Web Services (REST, SOAP, etc.).Strong grasp of security principles and how they apply t
• e-commerce applications and the protection of sensitive information.
• Prior experience with Git source control management process within an agile structure.Working knowledge of PHP frameworks and their concepts. These include but aren’t limited t
• CodeIgniter, Symfony, Laravel, and Zend Framework/Laminas.

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Build, deliver and maintain innovative and leading-edge online software solutions for tbk’s clients. Drive their success with technology, performance and kindness.
• Write clean, and reusable PHP code within CMS platforms like WordPress and its themes and plugins. We deliver enterprise-ready marketing-technology solutions for our mid-market and enterprise clients.Adherence t
• tbk’s standards for code formatting, code quality and unit testing.Integrate systems via web services and APIs t
• support our client’s marketing needs, ensuring quality, robustness, and appropriate error proofing.Adherence t
• WCAG 2.0-2.2 guidelines when authoring and managing digital work products.
• Guide and advise on the early prototyping of new software solutions that solve business problems and improve tbk or our clients’ businesses.Write effective tests t
• support unit testing goals set within the department.Collaborate with UX specialists, designers and product owners tcomplete tasks related t
• our client’s marketing and technology needs.Provide mentorship t
• development team members in a way that supports their learning goals, improves them as professionals, and strengthens the quality of the solutions created at tbk.Solve technical problems and present solutions t
• other developers, product owners, UX specialists and graphic designers.Continually offer ways t
• improve development processes within your team and the larger tbk organization.Provide the Web Division with the technical assistance and resources that they need td
• their job excellently.Provide sound architectural guidance on the technology stack and software implementations required t
• deliver on internal and client projects.
• Exceed targets set for the development of software modules.Provide project status updates t
• the Scrum Master, applicable product owners, and leadership.Identify project risks and provide solutions t
• mitigate or avoid such risks.Attend and contribute t
• the daily Scrum Stand-up; listen and support the entire development team.
• Inform and improve all areas of the development process within the development team.