PHP Backend Developer for Business Applications Integration
Maviance, Cameroon
Job Description
Maviance PLC is a fast-growing digital financial service provider and technology consulting company. Maviance PLC is part of the Maviance Group which consists of sister companies in Germany, France and the UK. Maviance Group is specialized in delivering customized solutions and value-added services as well as industry specific web and mobile solutions for telecom, utilities and financial institutions, businesses and governments, with a key focus in emerging economies
Maviance PLC is a digital financial services provider that develops, operates and grows a technological platform that focuses on increasing and facilitating access to digital financial services (including bill amp; payment aggregation, retail payments, agent banking, corporate amp; bulk payments) to people, companies and government entities of all income level across Cameroon.
Maviance PLC is engaging in its expansion phase in Cameroon and within the CEMAC (Central African) region with the goal of establishing the company as the #1 leading player in the Fintech and Digital Financial space.
We are looking for a PHP Integration Software Engineer, who will be an integral part of the international technology and development team with the responsibility of collaborating with software developers, business analysts, quality engineers, software architects and scrum masters to plan, design, develop, test and maintain maviance PLC development projects, as per Agile process.
Adding new services and partners to our platform is the main driver for our platform. You will develop well designed and tested microservices based on our battletested frameworks to integrated our partners into our line of business applications in the payment and fintech sector, while upholding our high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
You shall participate in code and peer-reviews of solution designs and related code as well as in the package and support deployment of releases to pre-production and test environments
We’re looking for someone who is energetic and creative; who is persistent and resilient; who likes tackling problems and has a passion for shaping the future and positioning our brand as a thought leader in the B2B space.
We are NOT looking for a website, CMS or Wordpress developer!
We are NOT looking for a junior developer. If you do not have at least 4 years of active post graduate working experience we cannot consider your application for this positiion.
Your main duties and responsibilities for this role include:
- Integrating the APIs of partners, service providers and business applications to our core business applications
- Supporting partners to integrate our external APIs
- Extending our existing APIs to support new service categories
- Building, extending, documenting and maintaining frameworks to speed up integrations
- Building reusable microservices, components and libraries for future use
- Translating architectures and designs into high quality code
- Ensuring quality by implementing automated quality assurances measures
- Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks
- Leverage and build APIs for multi service integrations
- Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
- Be involved in the entire life cycle of various projects including requirements gathering, architecture, design amp; coding, testing support, infrastructure estimation amp; deployment.
- Use agile methodologies to plan and track work.
- Implement automated code-based quality assurances in our projects to support our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience
MUST: Excellent command of English amp; French Language: Reading, Writing, Speaking -gt; Working language is English only
You have at least 4+ years of experience in a comparable role in a fast-growing/scale-up environment where you have worked on a variety of projects. Ideally in a role within our industry
Proven track record of successfully developing and maintaining line of business applications (LOB) using the PHP programming language
You have fundamental understanding of the differences of building a website and business application
A documented track record for building REST APIs
Strong Object Oriented Programming skills in general and experience with software design
Experience building PHP database-driven backend applications using framework like Symfony, Phalcon, Laravel, Zend or similar
Expertise in working with RESTful (JSON) API as well as SOAP (XML) API services
Expertise with alternative API types like GraphQL and gRPC as we