WORK FOR AN AWARD-WINNING NON-PROFIT SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

Job Title: Full Stack Developer

Industry: Non-profit/International Development

Job Location: Colombia

Build Change is an international non-profit social enterprise founded in 2004 with the mission of greatly reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses caused by housing and school collapse in earthquakes and hurricanes in challenging post-disaster and vulnerable environments. Our team of dedicated staff designs disaster-resistant buildings, trains people to build them, facilitates access to capital for safe reconstruction and retrofitting and works with governments to enforce building standards and develop systems that promote development and progressively reduce disaster risk.

Build Change works in both post-disaster and mitigation contexts and currently has programs in Indonesia, Haiti, Philippines, Colombia, Guatemala and Nepal. In addition, Build Change regularly conducts reconnaissance, consultation or construction industry analysis including in Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Dominica, St Lucia and Micronesia after recent devastating windstorms. To date, Build Change has trained over 43,000 people in disaster-resistant design and construction who in turn have built over 57,000 safer buildings. In the process, Build Change has created more than 18,000 jobs.

To learn more about us and our programs in Indonesia, Colombia, Guatemala, Philippines, Nepal the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands, visit www.buildchange.org.

As the Full Stack Laravel Developer, you will be responsible for developing and managing frontend and back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, understanding of front-end technologies like React is necessary as well.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a Laravel and React based applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage

Skills and Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Engineering or a related subject
• Strong knowledge of Laravel , React, Redux and PHP
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns of Laravel
• Understanding of React , Redux , Router and Ruducer
• Understanding of Javascript ES6
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Understanding accessibility and security
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP and Laravel as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with MySQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Fluent English and Spanish

ARE YOU INTERESTED?

Then please visit http://www.buildchange.org/careers and select the link for this position. Applications will be accepted until filled and will be reviewed as received. Qualified women and citizens of Build Change’s program countries are strongly encouraged to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. No calls please.