PHP Developer

Responsibilities:
Work with a team of web and application developers, for a company that is rapidly expanding in the area, to support websites and online applications for a government research institute.
Work quickly and carefully to complete work on both small and larger projects, collaborate with colleagues, and suggest new solutions to improve existing websites.
Meet daily with colleagues to discuss goals for the day and week, collaborate with colleagues when needed, work independently on web change edits and coding and review work by colleagues.
Communicate with customers, document work/time details in job tracking system, investigate and learn emerging technologies, and be flexible to change your priorities if the customer’s priorities change.

Qualifications:
3-4 years of working experience in PHP Web Development.
Knowledge of PHP programming language, experience building efficient, testable and reusable PHP modules.
Knowledge of PHP web frameworks including Yii, Laravel, and CodeIgniter.
Understanding of MVC design patterns and object-oriented PHP programming
Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
Experience with Front-end development frameworks ( VueJS would be nice to have) and web technologies; HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, and XML.
Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
Basic knowledge of usability & 508 compliances
Proficient understanding of standard coding tools e.g. Git, Jira, Gulp
Preferred to have Drupal site building experience and strong familiarity with both front- and back-end, particularly experience developing Drupal modules
Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science or related discipline. Will also consider equivalent experience.
Working knowledge of Atlassian products, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket.