[chiPHPug-discuss] Contract opportunity in Michigan

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

I have a 3-6 month opening at our Holland, MI facility for a senior PHP developer. If anyone may be interested, please feel free to email me at kent () ridersdiscount.com.


Successful Holland, Michigan based ecommerce retailer seeks a talented senior developer to improve and build upon our existing customer facing systems. 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. This is a contract position with an expected duration of 3-6 months. All work must be performed at our facility 5 days per week.

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 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, cURL
* 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 template systems
* JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery

Principals only, no firms please.