Junior Back-End Developer - remote

About the Job

Job Summary:

We are looking for someone who can start with a crazy idea and find a way to transform it to reality, from UI/UX concepts to wire frames to an actual working code. Someone who understands that world-class user experiences is a result of combining the art of design with the art of code.

Responsibilities

Class A Tasks: Doing

• Building the back-end side (for both B2C and B2B) of our cybernetics applications.
• Work on the full life cycle development of time sensitive projects.
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
• Recommend appropriate technologies to implement new features.
• Develop code libraries that can be used for multiple projects.
• Review code, layout, and design for projects.
• Build, deliver, and iterate to help scale projects.

Class B: Thinking & Interacting

• Participate in discussions with clients and team members about technical best practices.
• Collaborate with front-end developers and data scientists to improve usability
• Help the development teams identify optimal technical solutions.
• Review product and feature coding and plan future product upgrades with the development team
• Discussing technical solutions with clients and providing innovative new ideas to solutions.

Class C: Learning

• Willing to learn new frameworks and rapid prototyping tools.
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies and best practices.
• Active involvement and interest in the other digital disciplines within the company such as data analytics and artificial intelligence, user experience, digital marketing etc.
• Finds time to do things that matter the most.
• Makes specific changes and improvements to processes or own work to achieve more.
• Taking online courses in the field of software engineering, cloud computing (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure), data analytics, artificial intelligence, scale-able systems etc.

Job Requirements

Personal Requirements

• Punctuality, punctuality, punctuality!
• Knows the value of time and is able to manage his/her time effectively.
• Must be creative thinker, curios, and possess a strong desire to learn.
• Must be an analytical thinker, reliable, team worker and extremely organized.
• Must be ready to document everything in detail.
• Must be detail-oriented, highly accurate and possess excellent problem-solving skills.
• Follows rules and processes and actively engages in their improvement.

Technical Requirements

• 0-2 years of experience.
• Good knowledge of PHP.
• Good knowledge of one or more back-end frameworks: Laravel, CodeIgnitor, Zend etc.
• Experience with Front-End development is a plus.
• Experience working with version control systems such as SVN, BitBucket.
• Fair knowledge of back-end design patterns, common interface frameworks and testing.
• Experience in building large and modular code bases.