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Our client is looking to employ a Full Stack PHP Developer. The ideal candidate will be based in Pretoria/Stellenbosch.

Job Purpose:

Assists in developing and maintaining software products and solutions offered by the Company. 

Key Performance Areas:

Analysis and planning (15%)
• Define problem, goal and acceptance criteria.
• Analyse systems for root cause, impact, workarounds and
permanent fixes.
• Conduct research on possible solutions and techniques.
• Work with stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
• Prepare a work breakdown structure.
• Determine dependencies among deliverables.
• Estimate duration of deliverables.
• Identify risks.
• Document analysis and planning.

Programming (45%)
• Following project plan to develop software.
• Adhere to agreed upon standards for code.
• Generate and maintain high quality code.
• Use effective and efficient components & techniques to
implement solutions.

Reporting (5%)
• Update project documentation.
• Provide feedback on project status.
• Proactively keep supervisor and team updated on risks and
problems.
• Be available for queries regarding the system and database.

Mentoring (5%)
• Give guidance to other developers.
• Share knowledge with peers.
• Contribute to team knowledge base documentation.
• Providing support for support staff. 

Database Administration (5%)
• Perform maintenance to ensure data integrity and efficiency.
• Deploy new structure and content.
• Restore data when required.

Testing and implementation (20%)
• Ensure that all work is tested and fulfills functional
requirements before passing on.
• Prepare test environment, examples and instructions.
• Review code of peers.
• Deploy changes to the live environment.

Security (5%)
• Ensure all work is versioned and backed up.
• Safeguard confidential information.
• Maintain backups and backup systems.

Minimum Requirements:
Qualification: 
• Matric
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent preferred (desirable)
• Diploma - Development/Programming (desirable)

Experience: 

Minimum of 3 years experience in: 
• Application and Web development
• Database driven development
• Linux & Windows server administration

• Experience in more than 1 object orientated programming
language
• Relational database experience (MySQL, Postgres etc.)
• Experience in server-side scripting languages (PHP)

Skills and Knowledge (desirable)
• Analysis & design methodologies
• Familiarity with LAMP stack
• MySQL
• HTML
• Javascript & JQuery
• CSS
• Git
• C#
• RESTful APIs
• Google Apps APIs
• Knowledge of school administration systems
• Technical specification & documentation