Senior Full-stack Developer needed at The South African College of Applied Psychology

Main Purpose of the Job:

• Overseeing programming tasks to develop, enhance, test, and maintain in-house and 3rd party web-based platforms. Develop, enhance, and maintain integrations with 3rd party software platforms to support business-critical processes. Mentoring of intermediate and junior developers.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant Degree/Diploma in IT, and/or
• 5+ years of solid experience in full-stack web application development.
• Experience working with a productive software development team.
• Solid experience with modern solutions integrations. 

Skills:

• Modern full-stack development technologies (e.g. LAMP/LEMP stack)
• Unix/Linux server platforms
• MVC/OOP – Laravel 5+ Framework
• HTML5 & CSS3
• Modern CSS Libraries (Bootstrap 3+)
• Composer & NPM package managers
• JavaScript (jQuery & VUE2.js)
• PHP 7+ / Python
• RDBMS (MariaDB & SQL Server)
• API-based Restful web-services
• Command Line Scripting (BASH script & Cron) 
• Version control – GitHub
• Modern development IDEs and workflows (VSCode, SSH, etc.)

Personal Attributes:

• Attitude for continuous improvement and learning.
• Takes pride and ownership of work.
• A logical and critical thinker.
• An aptitude for problem-solving.
• Understanding of complex business processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to negotiate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented with a clear understanding of business objectives.
• Willingness to direct and mentor team members.