CreativeMerch (www.creativemerch.com) is the reigning heavyweight champion in the company store platform octagon. We have a large and diverse user base. Our products host tens of thousands of websites and employ a wide range of technologies from dynamic image generation to large database design. Although we've been around for over a decade, we still maintain our startup energy and mentality. But not a startup's . . .frugalness. . . -- the benefit of having an actual product and user base.
Our office is in the historic Hobart Building, centrally located at Market & Montgomery, right on top of a BART station with epic views of Market Street, AT&T Park, and the surrounding Financial District.
Job Overview:
We're looking for either full or part time help. We are open to the idea of someone spending the rest of their life chained to a desk in our office, but also to someone who wants to work from home and take on other projects besides ours. We can either do this by hiring one indentured servant, or by spreading it out to a few different people as a team. Got friends?
You will be responsible for a mature code base that operates tens of thousands of mission critical B2B cloud-based websites, reporting to the company owner and working with a team of 3-4 front and back-end developers.
Technology Requirements:
• Programming: PHP
• Markup/Scripting: HTML5, CSS3, JS, AJAX, XML
• Databases: MySQL
• Tools: Imagick, Varnish, MemCached, Sphinx
• UNIX Tools: SVN/GIT, vi/vim, mysqldump
About You:
• Expert full-stack developer with over six years' experience coding customer-facing web applications. Or not.
• Top-notch OOP (not OPP -- we're not down with that) skills including ability to implement common design patterns
• Experience with open source MVC frameworks such as Symfony, Zend or Yii (or the skill set to roll your own). Or not.
• Solid working knowledge of scaling and caching using MVC frameworks
• Fluent in front-end technologies (CSS, XHTML/HTML) including JS frameworks like JQuery and JQuery UI
• You are most productive working in a fast-pasted, iterative UNIX environment. Or not.
• You are not afraid to embrace new technologies and prefer to use whatever tool is the right one for the job. That's what she said.
• You have superior problem solving and organizational skills and pay attention to details
• You have a vast vocabulary of buzzwords like "superior problem solving" and "organizational skills" to help us write future job postings.
The Position:
• Maintain and refactor existing applications for performance and scalability in a high-traffic environment
• Develop new features and technology by writing extensible, modular classes in PHP and creating well-formed database schemas in MySQL
• Integrate 3rd party tools and APIs to enhance core platform and provide additional services
• Commit and push code on a daily basis in a Subversion source control environment
• Debug and test code using a wide variety of open source and custom tools
• Document new and existing code using PHPDocs and MediaWiki
• Develop tools and scripts for departments on an as needed basis
• Use in-house proprietary tools to track, log and communicate project status to team
• Use Exchange email and shared calendar/appointment system to manage and respond to interoffice and client requests
• Be accountable for several projects in different stages of the development cycle with little supervision. Sometimes no supervision depending on our mood.
Extra Credit:
• Experience with cloud-based hosting (EC2)
• Experience with PCI Compliance and credit card security
• Experience with internationalization and character encoding
• Experience in the Promotional Marketing / Ad Specialties industry
• Experience in experience
Please provide your resume and salary ...preferences... You can include references as well, but we probably won't bother contacting them. It's not like you're going to list somebody that hates you. Please also answer this question: How do you like your eggs? We will not accept candidates that say scrambled.
- Compensation: Depends on how much we like you and how skilled you are. The full bounty awaits
- Telecommuting is ok.
- This is a part-time job.
- This is a contract job.
- Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
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