A seasoned developer is required to help with the development of a project that is currently ongoing. We are looking for an individual that is not only just a coder; we are looking for someone who is keen to develop a medium to long term trustworthy relationship with us, a UK-based startup web development agency with roots in Nigeria. We believe in Nation building regardless of where we are in this world.
As a Nigerian proverb goes; "You cannot beat your chest with one finger. You need them all".

So, to the required technical requirements:

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- Three or more years development with PHP5.
- Understanding of OOP and applicable design patterns.
- Have worked with one or more of the following frameworks; Laravel, Zend, CodeIgniter.
- Comfortable writing raw SQL queries and appreciates basic optimisation techniques.
- An understanding of Database transaction lifecycles.
- Familiarity with ORM.
- Apply security principles and best practices.
- Unit testing with PHPUnit. High level of code coverage will be expected.
- Git for source code management. You will preferably have an existing Github account.
- Code documentation.
- Basic *nix command-line skill.


Nice to haves but not essential

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- Previous experience with developing RESTful API Web Services (JSON/XML).
- Can write and manage complex SQL queries using, views, stored procedures, and triggers.
- Agile methodology and development practices.
- AWS cloud integration and management


A budget of three months has been set aside for this work. The developer will be expected to work full-time (7.5hrs per day, 5 days a week) for the contract period. Main form of communications will be Skype and email.
The successful candidate will be expected to start mid-to-late January 2015.

If this sounds of interest to you, please get in touch with a sample of your past work and your CV. This could be a link to your source code or simply send an archive of your work via email to:

[email]careers@craftturf.com [/email]

Please also include your monthly expected compensation in Naira. Interviews will be conducted over Skype.

Further explanation of the project and the company will be made available to suitable candidates. We look forward to hearing from you.