- Flexible location within Australia, New Zealand or Sri Lanka only
Marlin is a rare organisation – a creatively led company wholly dedicated to doing good in the world. It's complex and beautiful work. Every day at Marlin we work to uplift communities, protect native species and find solutions to disease. Our communications raise vital funds for Australia's biggest charities.
We need a talented full stack developer who wants to help charities execute their digital projects from end to end.
You must have:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- You have 3+ years as a Laravel and or React Developer.
- You will be enthusiastic about opportunities to improve and adapt your skills as our
business needs require.
- You know what frameworks or technology to leverage for a project & why you would
use them.
- You have the ability to answer questions and help solve problems other developers
encounter.
- You are comfortable with writing complex MySQL/MariaDB queries.
- You are comfortable at using a Linux command line.
- You follow code standards to develop quality & maintainable code.
- The ability to perform accurately, effectively and methodically under pressure.
Your Major Responsibilities:
- Work on projects from concept through to delivery and deployment.
- Translating project requirements into blocks of tasks for you to work on.
- Maintenance of the backlog of tasks & review of the developers’ progress.
- Requirements analysis and technical design of the software solutions in
collaboration with the development team.
- Software quality assurance (audits, code reviews, testing, etc).
- Quick turnaround with changes and feedback items.
- Write scalable, maintainable, and reusable code as and when the business deems it necessary.
- Keep up to date with the latest technologies.
- Build plugins and reusable code components which can be migrated into different WordPress instances.
The Key Skills Required Are:
- Object-Oriented Programming
- An Advanced Knowledge of
- PHP (Laravel 4 & 5)
- React
- Javascript
- Relational Databases (MySQL & MariaDB)
- HTML5/CSS3
- Bootstrap/Foundation CSS frameworks
- Experience working within a WordPress environment
- The ability to draw the best out of team members
- Web Servers (Apache, NGINX)
- Thorough understanding of HTTP request/response cycle, and SDLC development
principles
- Experience writing technical requirement documents and using version control
(GIT)
API integration experience (Facebook, Twitter, Paypal etc.)
Some Preferred Additional Skills Would Be:
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Javascript Frameworks (jQuery, Vue, AngularJS, etc.)
- System Administration
- WordPress
- Magento
- Shopify
- Managing & Mentoring Developers