Software Engineer (PHP)

  • Full-time

Company Description

Portonics is a team of technology consultants that specialize in application design, software & mobile application development. Our goal is to help clients understand and make full use of digital technology that can heighten brand awareness and lead to better business.

We are a diverse team of engineers, analysts, solution architects working on the latest technologies, and running a wide range of projects from business-critical applications to applications serving 10M+ customers daily. 

We build and manage in-house, client products, and end-to-end services locally and globally. Services include server management, software management, networking, development, deployments, and information security.

We are an agile team who are very passionate about what we build. We design solutions to reduce/automate operations. Along with building custom solutions, we leverage open source technologies. Our teams build, manage, automate monitoring systems, alerting and deployments.

As a digital transformation team, we are big on Dev, DevOps culture, and collaboration.

Job Description

We are looking for young enthusiastic individuals who are passionate and very serious about web development. If you have the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly then the below applies to you.

  • Proficient in PHP and MYSQL;
  • Must have sound knowledge of object-oriented PHP (PHP7 or above);
  • Need to have experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel/CodeIgniter / Zend;
  • Maintaining coding standards and documentation;
  • Vast Knowledge in jQuery and Javascript;
  • Good knowledge of MySQL & PostgreSQL, including writing and optimizing queries;
  • Good knowledge of Redis or Memcached;
  • Work with ELK / EFK stack
  • Need to be very keen to learn modern web technologies;

Qualifications

  • Preferably B.Sc in Computer Science or similar discipline, educational qualifications will be relaxed for experienced candidates

  • At least 3 years of experience in software engineering with at least one MVC framework (Laravel, Symphony, etc);

  • Experience with peer code review practices, such as the use of GitHub Pull Requests;

  • Experience working with issue and task management software, such as Atlassian JIRA or similar will be an advantage;

  • If you have skills that go beyond the minimum requirement of description/responsibility above we encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

  • Communication is extremely important; our engineers work across every team in the organization. Candidates need to be able to communicate not only with other developers but also with management, non-tech team members & external parties.

  • Someone who will take ownership of a feature or application from initial conception through release while also assisting others when the need arises.

  • Have an understanding of virtualization and containerization as a tool for growing scalability, reliability, and expediency.

  • Ability to learn and teach new technologies and skills as new technology is introduced.

  • Sound mature judgment and decision-making ability.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • We are looking for honest, dedicated and responsible individuals.