Senior Back-end Developer

Aizen Recruitment, international Headhunting, and Recruitment company, for one of its client providing end-to-end OTT solutions and innovative solutions, is looking for a Senior Back-end Developer.

• Localisation: Remote
• Freelance contract
• Benefits: According to profile

https://taleez.com/careers/aizen-consulting

• Collaborating with management, departments, and customers to identify end-user requirements and specifications
• Designing algorithms and flowcharts to create new software programs and systems
• Producing efficient and elegant code based on requirements
• Working closely with other developers, UX designers, business, and systems analysts
• Testing and deploying programs and applications
• Troubleshooting, debugging, maintaining, and improving existing software
• Compiling and assessing user feedback to improve software performance
• Observing user feedback to recommend improvements to existing software products
• Developing technical documentation to guide future software development projects
• Architect, build and maintain databases
• Stay up to date with new framework releases and updates
• Ensure fast turnaround of customer requests
• Report appropriately and transparently on the reporting platforms provided by the Department.
• Communicate and reciprocate team efforts and collaborate with team members accordingly to ensure high quality service.
• Escalate upselling opportunities to the seniors and Department manager
• Explore and learn new technologies that are relevant to the company’s goals
• Suggest improvements to existing features
• Basic degree of freedom in performing job duties and responsibilities based on adopted process within the Company
• Requirement to request approval of authorized personnel when new solutions/processes are required
• Requirement to report all customer feedback and escalate critical issues to line manager and authorized personnel

• Extensive experience in creating backend systems and administration panels along with their respective APIs
• 5+ years’ experience in PHP/MySQL
• 3+ years’ experience in Laravel
• 5+ years’ experience in MySQL
• Good knowledge in JavaScript for backend interface creation and maintenance
• Scalability and Optimization/Knowledge in Caching (Redis) and Search Engine (Elastic Search)
• Experience with High Load and High Availability Websites
• Knowledge in API and Micro Services design patterns
• Highly experienced in GIT
• Strong understanding of MySQL query building
• Experience working with an MVC framework (Laravel, Symphony)
• Experience building RESTful APIs
• Experience in PCRE
• Strong knowledge of Javascript/HTML/CSS development
• Experience with caching (Memcached)
• Experience in CI/CD methodologies
• Experience in deployment (Nginx/PHP/MySQL)
• SphinxQL will be a plus
• Experience with Agile and Scrum development methodologies