First Bank of Nigeria Recruitment for PHP Developer Intern

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria’s largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below: 

Job Position: PHP Developer Intern

Requisition ID: 1700002P
Job Location: Lagos
Schedule: Temporary
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time

Job Description
Our ideal PHP Developer must be dedicated to the craft and should have written codes that they are proud of. The PHP Developer Intern will be responsible for:

• Writing “clean”, well-designed codes
• Adopt industry best practices
• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary.
• Produce detailed specifications
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Qualifications Required

• Fresh Graduates or Undergraduates of Computer Science, Engineering or related Departments
• Confident self-starter who has demonstrated drive
• Excellent organization skills, ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks and work to deadlines.
• Available to work full time for a period of 3 – 6 months
• Must have an advanced to fluent level of English
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

Ideal candidates should have:

• Proven Software Development experience in PHP
• Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services
• Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc)
• Understanding of open source projects like Joomla, Drupal, Wikis, osCommerce, etc
• Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc

Desired Characteristics
Successful interns will be expected to:

• Demonstrate leadership abilities
• Have High performance standards with a passion to achieve positive business results.
• Be Curious with a desire to learn and expand skill set.
• Be Flexible, adaptable, and open to change.

Benefits
As valuable members of our team, FirstBank interns will receive many benefits including:

• Challenging work assignments
• Developmental feedback
• Opportunities to network and learn from industry leaders within the marketing communications and digital space