Trust International Insurance Company (Cyprus) Ltd is seeking to recruit a Software Developer for its Head Offices in Nicosia. The Company's vision To Lead Through Innovation and Service Excellence is embraced by its values, which are defined by people who are characterized by reliability, responsibility, professionalism and consistency.  The successful candidate will join our dynamic team and have the opportunity, to develop all-round knowledge, experience and skills in business procedures, support, and management of our in-house and off-the-shelf software and go through the complete cycle of systems development. 

Position Purpose

The Software Developer will engage with the business team of the company and will be responsible for the complete software development life cycle. Development of custom-made applications, addons to existing back-end, front-end insurance systems, requirement gathering and training are among the main duties.  

Functions and Duties

• Engage with business in understanding needs and assembly of software specifications
• Coordinate with company’s affiliated software vendors for certain joint developments
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB

Qualifications

Education / Certification: MSc in Computer Science or related field

Required Knowledge:

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks such as Laravel
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• 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 as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Experience (Will be considered as an advantage): 3 years’ experience in software and web development with PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, and knowledge of REST APIs and SOAP web services.

You are kindly requested to send your CV to  careers@trustcyprusinsurance.com or to fax number 22 050 290. Note the position you are applying. 

All applications will be considered strictly confidential.