Int. JavaScript and PHP (Laravel) Developer to develop and enhance application services for our education client
Location : Toronto (Primarily On-Site)
Duration : 5-6 months
Hours : 7.25 per day
Project Details :
We are currently seeking Senior Applications Developer contractors for the Arts & Science Applications and Development Team.
The candidates plan, architect, design, develop, implement, test, and solve problems with complex applications involving authentication and databases used by the University community.
They are expected to demonstrate innovation and leadership in developing and enhancing application services. As the Senior Application Developer, the candidates participate in the future planning and direction of application services and serve as the resource on applications to other specialists, documenting code and for preparing project documentation that can be used for training purposes and for making future enhancements.
Responsibilities :
- Guiding and modernizing team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
- Providing technical guidance to other developers through mentorship.
- Maintaining high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
- Identifying and encouraging areas for growth and improvement within the team.
- Collaborating with other software developers and Product Delivery Leads to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain no code / low code web-based business forms and workflows and custom based applications.
- Assisting in the collection and documentation of user requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
- Preparing reports, analytics, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of Arts and Science applications.
- Designing, developing, and unit testing applications in accordance with established standards.
- Participating in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
- Working with other developers in the migration of legacy applications to current technologies.
- Analyzing and resolving technical and application problems.
- Assessing opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and IT management.
- Researching and evaluating a variety of software products.
- Executing institutional risk and security assessments with continuous improvement plans.
Must have skills :
- Minimum five years of recent and related experience in designing, developing and maintaining highly complex, multi-tier solutions, and enterprise-level programs in a networked environment
- Experience in integrating databases with enterprise-grade Web technologies and projects isrequired.
- Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) , Object- Oriented design architecture, andframework (e.g., Laravel).
- Highly proficient with Web technologies and servers. (e.g., Apache, Tomcat, etc.).
- Experience developing in Windows and Linux / Unix environments.
- Experience in web programming and scripting, including PHP, JSON, AJAX, XML, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Strong database back-end skills, including design, implementation, and testing of RDBMS, OLTP, and OLAP databases, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and MySQL.
- Proven application development risk and security execution.
- Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization, automated testing, and Cloud technologies
- Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum
- Proven strong understanding of Git version control as systems and process.
- Experience with business process analysis, workflow modelling, software development lifecycle, secure development procedures, and creating user and technical specification documents.
- Experience developing System Design documentation (SDS) and application architecture
- Knowledge of Incident, Problem and Change management process
Nice to have :
- Knowledge of Python and Perl will be an asset.