Senior PHP Developer

Gainesville, Florida, United States

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THE JOB:

  • Maintain existing PHP code and API.
  • Create new features and improve upon existing ones.
  • Improve on the speed, cleanliness, and security of existing code.
  • Identify and eliminate bottlenecks.
  • Identify and implement new technologies and strategies for scaling purposes. (This means freedom to adopt new technologies you take a liking to and can vouch for.)
  • Assist with code reviews for both current and prospective employees.
  • Work with cool technologies like: memcached, MongoDB, Gearman, Redis, custom chat server developed in-house, hadoop and plenty more (experience with this tech not mandatory, but interest is!)


THE PERSON:

 

  • Enjoy writing high quality, easy to read, self-documenting code. Passion for learning about new technologies.
  • High attention to detail.
  • High LOC/bug ratio.
  • Able to follow coding standards.
  • Well versed in best practices & security concerns for web development.
  • More pragmatic than idealistic.
  • Experience developing on the LAMP stack (able to set up a LAMP install with multiple vhosts on your own.)
  • Extensive experience with SQL.
  • Some experience with Javascript, HTML & CSS (though you won’t be required to write it.)
  • Some experience with lower level languages such as C/C++.
  • Experience with version control software
  • Sense of humor.
  • Love for music.


BONUS POINTS:

  • Well read in Software Engineering practices.
  • Experience with an SQL database and optimizing queries for high concurrency on large data sets.
  • Experience with noSQL databases like MongoDB, Redis, memcached, Nginx, Gearman, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, etc.
  • Experience working on large scale systems with high volume of traffic.
  • Useful contributions to the open source community.
  • Experience with browser compatibility weirdness.
  • Experience with Smarty or other templating systems.
  • Laser Tag enthusiast.


PERKS:

  • Make-your-own work schedule
  • In-house chef providing free meals everyday (including vegetarian)
  • Free laundry service
  • Tickets to shows, concerts, and events
  • The ride of your life