Associate Back End Developer  

Associate Back End Developer Job Description:

Joinpiggy.com, a company within the same investment portfolio as Kaagapay Solar, is looking for the highest caliber back end developers to join its technical team’s expansion. The technical team will be based out of our Ortigas office and will work directly with our US based leadership team.

We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

The Opportunity

• Collaborative working environment with the full support of a team of industry experts. Job Functions:
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions
• Will integrate various APIs from third parties;
• Build our own APIs to be used by Apps
• Improve and convert existing code to new standards.
• Build Unit Testing

Job Requirements:

• Strong English language skills.
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation.

Include in Cover Letter

Include in your cover letter answers to the following questions:

• What is one tool that every single php application SHOULD use?

What We Are Looking For

• Excellent Object Oriented PHP Skills
• Agile Dev Environment, CI, with Functional Testing.
• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Enjoys Improving when possible, but fixing when urgent.
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• SPACES vs Tabs.
• PSR / PHP-FIG Standards.