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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