Senior Full Stack Developer

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Full Stack Web Developer with a passion for building scalable web applications. You will design, develop, test, and deploy features across the full stack, from backend APIs to modern front-end interfaces, ensuring high quality and performance.

The role requires hands-on experience with PHP frameworks and modern JS frameworks, plus strong collaboration with product and QA teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full stack development experience.
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks such as Symfony or Laravel.
• Experience with Agile practices (TDD, refactoring, CI).
• Familiar with Git and JS toolchains (Bower, Grunt, Gulp).

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 solutions review, validations and retrospective meetings.
• Utilise backend services and expand our architecture.

Skills

Full stack dev

Agile development

Tools

PHP

AngularJS

React

Node.js

Bower

Grunt

Gulp

Git

Symfony

Laravel

Job description

About the job Senior Full Stack Developer

Job purpose

We're looking to hire a hardworking, experienced Senior Full Stack Web Developer with a passion for building and scaling high-quality web applications. The role requires expertise in multiple languages, and the ability to see a project through its lifecycle from ideation to go-live. The successful candidate will need to operate on both a strategic and technical level your work will make a difference to our business, and you will play an integral role in how our product and company evolve.

Duties and 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• 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).