Are you looking to work in a small, tech-focused organisation, building amazing customer experiences and deploying machine learning and big data techniques?
PriceCheck is South Africa’s largest price comparison and product discovery service, listing millions of products from hundreds of shops. As a top-five e-commerce platform, we also have a fantastic, rich and underutilised data set.
We’re looking for a senior PHP developer to help further improve the quality of our core product, as well as work with our data science team to build, deploy and improve machine learning and big data techniques to improve matching, categorisation and insight into our huge product catalogue.
PriceCheck is the ideal work environment for you if you enjoy:
- working in a small, cross-functional team in a tech-driven organisation
- taking responsibility for features from concept to deployment
- variety in your work
- enhancing a long-lasting product where you can directly see the business impact of features that you deploy.
Responsibilities
- API and Frontend development in PHP, with occasional Go and React thrown in
- Regular, basic database management and optimisation
- Work with the data science team to deploy and improve machine learning (especially natural language processing) approaches, to improve the quality of our catalogue of product offers
- Work effectively with (and optionally, contribute to improving) code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and test suites
- Work effectively in a small development team, through effective communication, attention to detail and self-management
Requirements
At least 5-8 years of experience in:
- PHP
- MySQL
- Object Oriented Principles and Design Patterns
- Git
- Unit and integration testing
At least 3 years of experience in:
- Memcached or Redis
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Basic server administration (nginx, apache)
- Creating and using RESTful services – API-driven development experience essential
Beneficial
- React
- Go
- Solr
- Machine learning and/or big data experience
- Relevant tertiary qualification
- Experience in a relevant organisation, e.g., online classifieds or ecommerce
Additional Information
Market-related salary
Great exposure to other leading companies in the greater group
Progressive flexi-time and remote opportunities
Great coffee all day every day
Quarterly teambuilding events
Free parking
Learning opportunities, including certification, conferences and more
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