Responsibilities

• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms

• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team

• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications

• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API

• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support

• Use test driven development and acceptance tests to ensure feature quality

• Interface with customer and internal teams to gather requirements and develop software solutions

• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues

• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components

• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager

• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks 

• Understanding of MVC design patterns

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming

• Understanding accessibility and security compliance 

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds

• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git