Openings for Backend Web and Hybrid App Developers at Halifax-based Code + Mortar headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Code + Mortar is a development company that provides web apps, mobile apps and websites for its customers. The company prides itself on its innovation, and has spun out such successful startups as the educational software company Squiggle Park.

The Job of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Alongside.

Here are excerpts from the posting this week:

Halifax

Code + Mortar

Backend Web and Hybrid App Developers

Role Description & Responsibilities: Reporting to the Lead Developer, the role of a Backend Developer is to support the team in project deliverables.

Responsibilities

What we are looking for in a candidate:

Clear understanding of a project workflow and your role

Knowledge in PHP and JavaScript and can work as a member of a team on a project

Make an effort to know what your tasks are on a daily basis and proactively reach out when you need new work or clarity regarding priorities

Meet your development milestones

Proactively address opportunities and issues

Creating code that works as designed with few bugs

Test code and are confident it to be correct before handing it off

Able to run your own locally hosted Apache and MySQL servers.

Basic understanding of the Unix/Linux command line interface.

Basic understanding of a Git workflow

Able to debug basic code issues

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience:

iOS / Android app builds (Cordova) and deployment

Backend/server-side development in Laravel framework (PHP)

Database design/management with MySQL/MariaDB.

JavaScript

Git & Gitlab - Issue Tracking & Version Control

Comfort working in terminal/shell environments.

Comprehension of object-oriented programming

Understanding of RESTful APIs & GraphQL

Hosting & Deployment

Testing

Development Workflow:

Local Development

Code Reviews

Staging

QA/Testing

Live Deployment . . .

Read the full job posting here.