Lead Software Developer at Ecommerce Platform at Avechi

We are Avechi are a startup ecommerce platform, looking for a lead developer who will be responsible for analyzing, designing and implementing new ecommerce applications, and managing existing web/ecommerce platforms.

 The developer provides technical guidance and feedback to management related to the design, development, and testing to ensure business requirements are met.

Most important, you must have a startup mentality thus be willing to persevere, take ownership and to build things from scratch

Responsibilities:

• Designs, codes, tests, and debugs programs, ensuring business requirements are met and documentation is created and maintained.
• Acts as liaison between IT functional unit and cross-functional project teams, a project team member.
• Follows, and ensures adherence to, the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for consistent development and deployment practices.
• Provides oversight and technical guidance regarding the design and programming work performed by the team of developers.
• Manage the developer team consisting of assistant developers and interns
• Provides day-to-day feedback, work direction and feedback to the management
• Acts as a technical and business systems subject matter expert for the developers and business stakeholders/representatives.
• Ensures compliance with development standards.
• Safe-guards all customer, employee and company proprietary and personal information ensuring customer and employee data is kept confidential at all times

Additional duties

• Analyzes and evaluates existing or proposed code for maintainability, sustainability and reusability.
• Provide technical support for business systems in response to outages or escalation requests.
• Creates and maintains build processes to ensure successful installation of archives/executable in production systems.
• Performs other projects or miscellaneous duties as requested or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent related experience.
• IT function specialty certification(s)

Experience:

• 4-6 years in software development developing and designing applications in various architectures.
• Strong experience in PHP
• Demonstrated functional requirements development and working directly with stakeholders.
• Designing architectures to meet requirements utilizing technologies across application tiers
• Solid understanding of OOP
• Knowledge and demonstrated usage of design patterns
• Advanced understanding of standard front-end development technologies: HTML5, CSS2.1/3, JavaScript, JQuery, JSON, AJAX, XML, SOAP, WSDL
• Working knowledge of development tools, PHP Storm, SourceTree, GIT, MySQL Workbench
• Demonstrated professional development experience with Web Services frameworks and RESTful API standards
• Strong understanding of Linux
• Strong understanding of MySQL and NoSQL
• Excellent grasp of database design and normalization rules
• Direct experience working in Agile software development methodology
• Good understanding of Web analytics and SEO techniques
• Experience extending or customizing existing products/frameworks such as Wordpress, Magento
• Strong debugging skills with the ability to reach out and work with internal and external stakeholders to solve complex problems
• Problem solving and time management skills
• Ability to work in both an individual and team-based environment
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills
• Detail oriented in the execution and follow-up of work.
• Ability to effectively manage and lead change.
• Takes initiative.

Email title: FGH/234: APPLICATION FOR LEAD DEVELOPER AT AVECHI