Developer_Cape Town Based

[RSAWEB]

PHP SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

The Software Developers in our team are responsible for researching, designing, developing, and testing operating systems-level software and network distribution software. Setting operational specifications and formulating and analyzing software requirements.


Job Competencies:
• Proficient in modern programming languages with a focus on PHP.
• Full software development lifecycle experience.
• A basic understanding of networking concepts.
• Cooperation and commitment within our team to achieve common goals.
• Examination of data to grasp issues, drawing conclusions, and solving problems.
• A relatively grounded understanding of Automated Testing platforms, such as unit testing and behavior driven development.
• Some knowledge of continuous integration or automated deployment.
• A well ground knowledge of source control. Extra brownie points for GIT and GIT-flow
• A solid foundation or sufficient exposure in working with MVC frameworks such as Rails, Cake, code-ignition, Zend, Django.
• Experience on working with large scale, complex and heavily invested systems.
• A basic understanding of domain driven design, single responsibilities and writing DRY code (Don't Repeat Your self)
• Good and clear communication skills as they will be required to maintain visibility and accountability to their work at all times.

Work Activities:
• Developing Internet based products and applications.
• Extend internal system tools and intranet.
• Modify existing software to improve performance.
• Software programming and development of subsequent documentation.
• Consulting with other departments on projects and technical issues.
• Actively contribute to the existing system knowledge and technical tools.
• Conferring with product managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities for processing projects.


Minimum Requirements:
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience using PHP.
• Extensive experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other frontend design languages.


Preferred Requirements:
• Experience with program testing software, SOA-style principals, Agile/Lean/Kanban, database management systems (SQL)

Salary: Market Related

 

[deweyzeph]

Market Related Salary = we'll pay you as little as we can get away with paying you.

 

[retromodcoza]

Lets try and conduct a different more constructive approach to the lack of salary band posting. The recruiters don't seem to be responding to the sarcasm correctly.

So , lets post a realistic band for them. Most IT pros will know what a realistic band is , and this forum is filled with them. The recruiters can then get an idea of the right amount is for the right candidate , and it will become more expected that the guidelines of the forum users be followed. Most candidates will likely not be led to pursue too much administration with the recruiter if the salary guidelines given by users are not reflected more or less when contacting the recruiter

That said , this job entails large scale and complex systems and requires some analyst skills and experience.
This line "Conferring with product managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities for processing projects." confirms that there will be some managerial work involved.

Thus , it will need someone fairly senior. This is not a junior role. It will need 5-7 years experience , rather than 3-5.

For PHP , in Cape Town , this role should be between R40,000 and R55000 depending on experience and other factors. It might be quite a bit more if specialized experience in the subject matter is needed.

 

[patrict]

I think thats a pretty fair analysis based on the limited detail, and agree on the salary range, with emphasis on the fact that 40 000 is the absolute minimum, and responsibilities at this level will entail less project management related duties...

Nice idea retromodcoza

 

[deweyzeph]

Nice idea. Your analysis is correct, however in reality no doubt they will try to get away with paying someone R15k a month.