[chiPHPug-discuss] PHP job opportunity (permanent or long term contract)

[Kent G. <ke...@ri...>]

Lead PHP Developer

Successful Holland, Michigan based ecommerce retailer seeks a talented senior developer to build and improve our existing customer facing systems. The role is very hands on and PHP intensive but will involve a growing leadership presence as the company expands. A minimum of 5 years prior experience with PHP is required. We strongly desire an individual that has a track record building highly-scalable web applications.

Responsibilities

 *   Design new features, both on the back-end (data modeling and management) and front-end using PHP, MySQL, SOLR/Lucerne, AJAX and other open-source technologies.
 *   Experience with the management of large data sets, our environment manages over 700,000 SKU’s.
 *   Develop and evolve website infrastructure and back-end processes that manage business critical tasks.
 *   Continuous improvement of development processes and architectural patterns.

Requirements

 *   Experience building high quality, scalable web applications. Emphasis on ecommerce.
 *   Extensive experience programming in PHP 4/5 (5 preferred)
 *   XML, SOAP, cURLl
 *   Experience with JavaScript, JSON, AJAX, CSS, and XHTML
 *   Expert knowledge of SQL and relational database structures.
 *   A good understanding of faceted / guided navigation and search technologies
 *   Ability to develop and document clean, object oriented code.


Prior history with the following is not required, but definitely helpful in our environment:

 *   Java
 *   Tomcat
 *   Spring Framework
 *   Pentaho
 *   Authorize.net API integration
 *   Shell scripting
 *   Smarty or related templating systems
 *   JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery