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Job Description
The PHP Team Leader will oversee multiple streams of concurrent PHP development in each sprint and will set up the app’s internal technical road map and ensure that all the team members are working towards the same goals.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinate the development efforts of multiple back-end members;
- Collaborate closely with Product Owner and design teams to create innovative user interfaces and features, optimised for mobile platforms;
- Continue improving the app quality of user experience on many devices;
- Stay up to date on back-end platform and ecosystem developments;
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
- 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
- Prepare and maintain all applications utilising standard development tools
- Utilise back-end 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
- Refactor, optimise and improve the existing code base for maintenance and scale
- 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
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs;
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization;
- Manage the department and provide guidance to the team members;
- Coach the team members on project handling and new technologies;
- Researching technologies;
- Development patterns and strategy;
- Code review for the completed tasks;
- Maintain documentation process for the tasks;
- Ensure a proper time logging of his team members;
- Evaluate the team;
- Estimation confirmation;
- Team planning;
- Maintain high KPIs for the team;
- Prepare a monthly report for the department and submit it to the Technical Director.
Job Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Has at least 2 years in a similar position.
- Expert-level knowledge of back-end with at least 5 years of experience developing, shipping, and maintaining PHP applications.
- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks {Laravel is a must}.
- Experience with some of the modern relational databases.
- Skilled at optimising large complicated SQL statements.
- Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational databases.
- Solid experience in Angular JS and Vue 2.0 web technologies is a must.
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
