St. Louis, MO
Sr. PHP Web Developer
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This is a mid to senior level position building and maintaining our numerous high traffic Facebook apps. You would be part of a team responsible for writing backend php / mysql, and frontend html / css / javascript. We are a very agile team doing incremental deploys multiple times a day. Your code will impact millions of users and you will also be able to monitor how your code impacts revenue for the company.
About you:
Follow industry leader blogs and twitter feeds to stay current with new techniques and technologies at your disposal as a developer. Are a fast learner and can pickup new things quickly, be it a technique, framework, or language. May or may not have worked on a high traffic site yet, but the idea of doing so excites you rather than intimidates you.
Required Skills:
jQuery
HTML - tableless
CSS - above average (we don’t support IE6)
OOP experience - common design patterns: Singleton, Factory, MVC, etc
MVC framework experience
Preferred Skills:
LAMP development experience
Above average javascript knowledge
Social media aware (have an active facebook / twitter / google+ account)
Bonus Skills:
Facebook app or api experience
High traffic experience and optimization for it
Good debugging skills
Js mvc experience (backbone.js)
Experience with some "html5" aspects like local storage and pushstate
jQuery plugin or javascript library authoring
Can come up with interesting product ideas (we're always looking for new app ideas)
Have a good UX/UI sense
Have used media queries to create responsive layouts
Contribute to open source projects
Native mobile experience (iOS, Android)