Senior PHP Developer

About the role

Nabd, a mobile-first company founded in 2012 and reaching over 25 million users worldwide, is looking for an organized, goal-oriented Senior PHP Developer to join its team in Kuwait City. The role covers designing and implementing scalable back-end components, APIs and services, and working with other developers and project managers to solve technical challenges.

Key responsibilities

• Work with other developers and project managers to solve new and existing technical challenges.
• Write, update and maintain clean, well-designed PHP code following industry best practices.
• Design applications and database structures for performance and scalability, and hunt down bottlenecks to improve application performance.
• Write front-end and back-end code with efficiency and security.
• Manage development projects from inception to completion autonomously and independently.
• Build efficient, testable and reusable PHP services.
• Diagnose issues on live servers and proactively propose architectural improvements as the business grows.
• Deliver accurate project requirement and timeline estimates, give regular feedback and meet deadlines.
• Lead the design and implementation of core applications, APIs and services.
• Participate in and improve development processes and tools for other development teams.

Required profile

• 6+ years of professional experience in rapid web development with PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery and MySQL.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Experience planning and delivering software solutions used across multiple products and organizational units.
• Extensive knowledge of web development concepts, strategies and methodologies.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and presentation skills.
• Self-starter, proactive and willing to learn and grow with the business.

Required skills

• PHP and PHP frameworks such as Laravel
• Front-end technologies such as Vue.js and JavaScript
• Code versioning tools: Git, Mercurial, CVS and SVN