PHP/Javascript Developer
Social Candy is looking to contract with a LAMP developer to supplement its small, agile development team and play a significant role in the rapid evolution of our products. We need a talented and smart individual with excellent coding skills who is passionate about developing Web 2.0 sites. You should be comfortable working in all layers of the web application and in all stages of development. You should enjoy working in the highly collaborative team setting of this fast-paced environment. Duties will include building out Facebook applications using Javascript, Zend Framework and Doctrine ORM. You will work with other developers, the marketing department, designers and QA to create release ready products.
Our development platforms include jQuery, PHP, MySQL, WordPress, Apache and Linux servers. If you are already proficient with most of these, you should be able to hit the ground running.
Who We Hope You Are:
You are a motivated and service-focused self-starter. You aren't shy about rolling up your sleeves and fixing problems that might not be in your job description, while looking forward to eating good food with fun people. You love to over-deliver while managing your time wisely. You balance perfectionism with getting things done. You're always hungry to learn new things.
What You Will Bring to the Table:
• A proactive go-getter who loves to learn, code and create
• A good communicator— both written and oral
• Someone detail-oriented who writes clean, concise, secure, efficient, maintainable code
• A great eye for design and UI
• First rate technical writing skills
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• A fast learner who is not phased by mastering a new technology
• Ability to train and oversee development interns
• Willingness to work in a team environment during normal office hours and take constructive advice
This position is a contractor position with the possibility of full time employment in the near future.
Core Technical Skills:
• Expert PHP5 skills with solid grasp of Object Oriented principles, data structures and algorithms, software engineering methodologies, techniques such as regular expressions and common design patterns
• Experience building Zend Frameworks applications from the ground up
• Experience with Doctrine ORM
• Familiarity with any PHP framework and the MVC paradigm
• Expert MySQL skills and ability to architect database structures
• Basic experience with MongoDB
• Javascript expert with any framework (jQuery, Prototype, MooTools, etc)
• Experience and comfort with working on Unix/Linux systems and basic system administration skills (Apache configuration, basic shell scripting, etc)
• Experience working in development teams
• Experience building dynamic web pages and fully-functional forms from the ground up – you understand how the whole web stack works, and how to avoid obvious security holes
• Experience coding pixel-perfect, cross-browser web pages to standards-compliant, table-less HTML/CSS from a supplied comp or mockup
• Experience configuring a web server
• Experience using source control and bug tracking systems and writing technical documentation
• Comfortable working in Linux from the command line
Education & Experience
• Bachelors degree with a technical major or minor such as Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 2-5 years of software or web development experience
Bonus Skills:
• Expertise with web architecture, providing design and development recommendations and optimizing existing infrastructure
• Experience with mobile website optimization
• Experience with writing plug-ins for jQuery or another library, or large Javascript (AJAX/DHTML) applications
• Professional experience with Flash and Actionscript
• Experience with image creation and manipulation in Photoshop, Illustrator or FireWorks, web design, page layout or typography
• Experience with SEO and Google Analytics
• Experience with Google Maps API, Google Charts API, 3rd Party API's, etc.
• Experience with writing APIs or writing your own framework or CMS
• Experience with code review, pair programming, agile development, unit testing, distributed version control branching/merging, or other software engineering techniques
• Expertise in networking, shell scripting, system administration or information security
• Experience with database administration and optimization
• Experience with writing specifications and test plans
• Experience with estimating large projects or managing outsourced/off-shored work
• Past experience in a client-facing role
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