Jumia - Africa's leading internet group is recruiting to fill the vacancy below : 

POSITION : Senior PHP Developer  

Responsibilities

• Work across the entire product life cycle: concept, design, development, deployment, testing, release, support
• Write module, well-organized code.
• Be part of an agile team that develops smart logistics solutions on a service oriented architecture using state-of-the-art technologies
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team (Backend developers, DevOps, QA engineers, Product Owners) oriented to continuous delivery
• 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

 Qualifications

• 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

Skills:

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