SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - PHP (SENIOR-LEVEL)

About Baobab Web Services (BWS)

Founded in August 2016, BWS is headquartered in Durbanville, Cape Town. Since its inception, BWS has been steadily growing, in staff complement, the number of customers, and the products offered. BWS offers customers a one-stop, ever-expanding, all-encompassing set of tools to empower small and medium businesses to succeed with their online presence and communication needs. BWS wants to remove the complexity of doing business online and have customers focus on their core business.

Currently, the company has four core focus areas:

• Bespoke platform development and consulting services.
• Cloud-based web hosting/server management (shared and custom server solutions).
• Web Communication - SMS and Email.
• Content delivery network (CDN).

At BWS, we are a team of technologists, passionate about earning the trust of our customers.

About the role

BWS is looking for a Senior PHP Developer to join their team on a full-time basis. The role is a development role with a strong focus on both back- and front-end PHP development work and related technologies. The successful candidate will work with some exciting and well-known brands.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Migrating, building, extending and maintaining platforms built in PHP – predominantly within the Laravel Framework.
• Mentoring of less experienced developers in the team.
• Development work aligned to the BWS coding methodology.
• Support of applications and environment.

Required Skills/Experience

• Have significant experience developing applications using PHP.
• Experience with PHP frameworks, such as Laravel will be advantageous.
• Understanding of SQL databases such as MySQL.
• Excellent understanding of core front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap).
• Experience and interest in JavaScript libraries such as jQuery.
• Familiarity with Version Control Systems such as Git, Bitbucket and AWS Code Commit.
• Comfortable with JavaScript and Exposure to ReactJS.
• Passionate about automating the deployment process and testing code.
• Prior working knowledge with Content Management Systems.
• Able to demonstrate an excellent understanding of Object-Oriented development methodologies.
• Have excellent communication and technical documentation skills.
• Familiar with Agile and Scrum methodologies and embracing their values and principles.
• Comfortable quickly adapting to dynamic timelines and requirement changes.

Skills/Experience not required, but beneficial

• Experience with AWS technologies will set the candidate up for success.
• Proficiency with Linux (i.e. Ubuntu, CentOS).
• Experience with NodeJS, React Native and React JS will be beneficial.
• Proficiency with Docker.

Experience and Education

• 6+ years of software development experience with PHP.
• Diploma in Information Technology, BTech (IT) or Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Degree a significant advantage.

Personal Characteristics

• Customer-first perceptive.
• Thinking at scale approach to challenges.
• A self-starter and should be self-driven.
• Must exhibit a passion for Technology.
• An excellent communicator that shares knowledge freely.
• A positive outlook on life.

If you want to join BWS on their exciting journey, send your CV to Recruitment@BWSCloud.tech. We look forward to hearing from you.