Creative Y&R is an advertising agency dealing in branding, SEO, printing, design, advertising, web and digital, publishing services in Nairobi Kenya.

We are looking for a Back-End Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be 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 coworkers into the application. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Indicative Experience: 2-5 years’ experience working as a Back end developer.
• Expert knowledge in WordPress
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
• Intermediate to advanced experience in Drupal
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience developing responsive design websites from HTML files
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT
• Understanding of web hosting and server administration

Good to have

• Knowledge in JAVA and/or C#
• Frameworks: Laravel, .NET
• knowledge of the DOM, its objects and their properties.

How to Apply

To apply, send your CV and cover letter to work@creativeyr.co.ke