Senior PHP Web Developer at WishKnish

Who we are looking for:

We are presently setting up an office in Nairobi, Kenya and are looking for a senior developer to join our team. The candidate must demonstrate capabilities necessary for instructing, influencing, and otherwise enabling engineers to achieve company, project, and team-related goals (as they relate to technology). The demonstrated capabilities include but are not limited to the following:

• A comprehensive knowledge of SCRUM Agile methodology for all software application development 
• Shows appetite and aptitude for owning responsibility for technical decisions and direction for one or many projects/teams.
• Aptly manages team demands on his/her time and shows willingness/ability to delegate technical execution or responsibilities when appropriate.
• Acts as a liaison or primary point of contact for communicating with client-side technical expertise.
• Directs technical aspect of operations related to escalated client accounts or high severity issues as they affect or confront a project or team.
• Attends to both business and technical considerations when designing solutions to project/team or company related issues.
• Demonstrates interest in improving the company’s technical awareness, depth and use of technology across the business.
• Participates in the evolution of company-level best practices, standards, and policies as it related to software development.
• Provides thought-leadership as it relates to emerging technologies and readying our company and engineers for productively integrating the same into our business.

Candidate must be an expert at software development – quickly moving between complex analysis, design, development, testing, and debugging without breaking a sweat. Candidate must be comfortable navigating the technologies used within the organization, while remaining flexible to new directions and opportunities for learning.

The candidate must demonstrate a firm grasp of the following technologies:

• 5 years working experience
• PHP 7+
• MariaDB / MySQL, MongoDB
• Laravel PHP Framework
• HTML, CSS, JS, Twitter Bootstrap
• Redis
• React, React Native
• Golang experience is a plus
• Java experience is a plus
• Blockchain experience is a plus