PHP Developer III (Nairobi - Hybrid) at Compassion International

• This Developer III is responsible for the lifecycle of critical corporate-wide and customer-specific technology based products. The specialist further works with primarily third-party systems and develops necessary custom entities, ensuring components meet business requirements. At this career level, the incumbent generally works on teams that provide design, development, and services for enterprise and heavily integrated applications. He or she may coach and oversee the work of other specialists.

What will you do?

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Own the design, development, and implementation of backend services using PHP and relevant frameworks (e.g., CodeIgniter Version 3, CodeIgniter Version 4, Laravel, Symfony) to ensure high performance and responsiveness to front-end data querying views and requests.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features integral to our applications.
• Integrate data storage solutions and optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Familiarity with the full web technology stack (e.g., HTTP, cookies, headers, asset loading/caching) and the iOS and Android SDKs.
• Proficiency with modern front-end development tools and languages such as HTML5, CSS3, ES6+, Typescript, React.js, Vue.js, or Angular.
• Experience in developing cross-platform mobile applications using frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Ionic, or Xamarin.
• Implement comprehensive security protocols to safeguard sensitive financial information and contribute to the continuous integration and deployment pipeline to streamline updates and releases.
• Stay informed of new technologies and industry best practices to ensure our application remains future-proof and competitive.
• Maintain and enhance existing codebases focusing on performance optimization and bug fixing.
• Provide accurate timeline estimates for the front-end & back-end layer of the project and ensure timely delivery in an agile environment.
• Have working knowledge in Object oriented programming languages like Python, and Java, with a Strong preference for PHP, Codeigniter version 3 framework
• Manage the deployment of global infrastructure and applications within a variety of cloud service environments(AWS).
• Extensive knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Excellent understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.
• Experience with configuration management tools (such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet).

What do you bring?

• Strong knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming, common design patterns, and experience with popular frameworks such as CodeIgniter Version 3, CodeIgniter Version  4, Laravel, or Symfony.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their Query languages, version control tools like Git, and fundamental security principles especially concerning RESTful APIs and web applications.
• Experience deploying PHP applications in a cloud environment (AWS) and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Have working knowledge and technical know-how of key fundamentals in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, and 2+ years in a DevSecOps engineer role with hands-on experience in cloud environment management and Database programming.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar for automation tasks and practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills.
• A minimum of 2+ years experience in front-end development for web and mobile applications with proficiency in modern front-end development tools and languages such as HTML5, CSS3, ES6+, Typescript, React.js, Vue.js, or Angular.
• This employment will be a ongoing, long-term contract employment
• This role will be hybrid remote and in-office (Nairobi)