Job Description

Who are we: A rapidly growing digital marketing powerhouse driven by customer acquisition, technology and seamless banking solutions.

Who are we looking for:

A highly skilled Mid-Level Web Developer to build and maintain high performance and scalable applications to take our company to the next level.

What will you do:

• You will contribute to the development of new features, fixing bugs and issues, reviewing code from other team members and will make a key contribution to the entire development lifecycle.
• You will be involved from conception to delivery and will make every effort to meet the agreed outcomes in order to help the business achieve it's strategy in a cost effective manner.
• You will be working on bespoke web applications, taking direction from both technical and non-technical stakeholders, taking ownership of new features as well as maintaining existing ones.
• You must be able to use your own initiative in order to balance the priorities of the business in a fast paced environment.
• You should be familiar with PHP or JavaScript frameworks (Laravel, ExpressJS), Database management systems (MySQL, Postgres) and Cloud hosting (AWS, GCP).
• You will work with an international team of marketers, developers and project managers - you will be able to take advantage of our hybrid working policy which allows you to work remotely 3 days per week and 2 days per week in our new Cape Town office.

• Degree in computer science (or related) or relevant industry experience (3+ years).
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to work alone or in a team.
• Proficiency with front end languages and tools such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Familiarity with front end tools and frameworks such as VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt, ReactJS.
• Proficiency with backend languages such as PHP, Python or Ruby.
• Familiarity with backend tools and frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, ExpressJS.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.
• Good working knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu) and associated hosting software (Apache, Nginx, PHP-FPM).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Previous experience with AWS or Google cloud platform is highly advantageous but not essential.

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