• Understanding business requirements & developing solutions rather than just coding for specific feature(s).
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Writing clean, fast PHP to a high standard, in a timely and scalable way. Using coding standards and best practices to ensure quality.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary.
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps supervisor well informed of the status of development effort.

Desired Skills and Competencies:

• Proven software development experience in PHP.
• Good knowledge of PHP frameworks (CodeIgniter/ CakePHP/ YII/ Laravel). Knowledge of Laravel is an added advantage.
• Excellent communication skills. Ability to be a self-starter, prioritize your work, stay organized, and work well in a team.
• Understand the following concept practically - OOPS, MVC.
• Hands-on experience with GIT version control tool. Should understand various branching strategies, merge conflicts etc.
• Extensive knowledge of relational databases (MySQL) including complex SQL queries.
• Hands-on experience in Backend and REST-based API Development.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3