Senior PHP Engineer 

Maviance PLC, part of the Maviance Group with sister companies in Germany, France and the UK, is a fast-growing FinTech company offering digital financial services and consulting solutions to businesses and governments. We’re building a leading FinTech platform for Cameroon and the CEMAC region, with the goal of establishing the company as the #1 leading player in the Fintech and Digital Financial space.

We’re seeking a Business Software Engineer to join our international team. You’ll collaborate across disciplines to develop and integrate new services, while upholding our high software quality standards. We value energetic problem-solvers passionate about shaping the future of FinTech. 

We are seeking an Engineer who, while proficient in PHP, is also versatile and capable of writing production-ready code in other programming languages such as Java and Go.

Duties

Your main duties and responsibilities for this role include:

• Integrating the APIs of partners, service providers, and business applications to our core business applications
• Building reusable microservices, components, and libraries for future use
• Translating architectures and designs into high-quality code
• Ensuring quality by implementing automated quality assurance measures
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Building, extending, documenting, and maintaining frameworks to speed up integrations
• Be involved in the entire life cycle of various projects including requirements gathering, architecture, design & coding, testing support, infrastructure estimation & deployment.
• Use agile methodologies to plan and track work.

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Excellent command of English & French Language: Reading, Writing, Speaking -> Working language is Primarily English
• 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
• Experience building PHP database-driven backend applications using frameworks like Symfony, Phalcon, Laravel, Zend or similar 
• Proven track record of successfully writing production ready code in another programming language like Java or GO. 
• 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
• Expertise in working with RESTful (JSON) API services
• Mandatory practical experience working in a test-driven environment and automated testing suites tools
• Ability to write well-documented, clean code
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and you’re not afraid to be “hands-on” to get things done and also have a passion for learning, innovation and finding new efficiencies.

Benefits

We are offering you an exciting and promising opportunity.

• Competitive salary
• Fast paced and dynamic environment, where you can make an impact
• Opportunity to work with leading technologies
• Growing global organization with a highly entrepreneurial spirit
• Daily breakfast provision to help you start your day right
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage
• Monthly performance awards
• Weekend football events to foster team work