Senior PHP Backend Developer

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 520,000 - 740,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Cape Town seeks a Senior PHP Backend Developer to join our development team. The role focuses on troubleshooting, testing, and maintaining core product software and databases while collaborating with UX to build scalable, well-architected applications.

You will work across the development lifecycle, apply TDD, refine the codebase, and contribute to architecture with REST and SOAP API services in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a PHP Developer.
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks such as Symfony or Laravel.
• Experience with API services (REST and SOAP).
• Familiarity with Agile development practices (TDD, refactoring, CI).

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases.
• Learn the business domain and participate in the requirements gathering process.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Build innovative, well-designed applications in collaboration with the UX team.
• Design, develop, document, test, and debug software systems and components.
• Participate in the Agile software development life cycle including reviews and retrospectives.
• 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 stakeholders around tasks, evaluations and schedules.
• Keep abreast of new trends and share knowledge with the team.

Skills

PHP

Laravel/Symfony

REST/SOAP APIs

TDD

Agile development

Open-source

Linux environments

Tools

Git

Job description

About the job Senior PHP Backend Developer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality.
• Learn the business domain and participate in the requirements gathering process.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Build innovative, well-designed, and well-architected applications in collaboration with the UX team.
• Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing software systems, applications and/or components.
• Participate in the agile software development life cycle, including but not limited to solutions review, validations and retrospective meetings.
• Utilise backend services, and expand our architecture.
• Refactor, optimise and improve our 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 share knowledge with the rest of the team.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years experience as a PHP Developer
• Working knowledge of authentication and authorisation patterns
• Integrating data from multiple sources and databases
• Knowing the limitations of PHP and how to work around them
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (e.g. Symfony, Laravel)
• Proven expertise in working with API services (REST and SOAP)
• Experience with Agile development practices (TDD, refactoring, continuous integration)
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g. Git)
• Strong preference for or deep understanding of open-source solutions
• Experience in automation and linux environments advatageous.