St. Louis, MO
Answers.com 
PHP Developer
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nswers’ is seeking a Software Development Engineer to work with the core technologies powering our infrastructure. The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team devoted to the design and development of high-traffic web applications, backend processing systems, various supporting tools, and administrative front ends. This position will be located in our St. Louis, MO office.
Responsibilities:
* Contribute architecture input to new system components, rewrites of legacy systems, etc.
* Write thorough, comprehensive technical and high-level documentation
* Engineer and implement new product features for web-based applications using LAMP
* Optimize and enhance web applications with tens of millions of page requests, high volume data logging and processing needs, and high performance requirements
* May require an on-call rotation to support production
Requirements:
* Experienced LAMP developer (Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP)
* Proficient test planning for web applications 
* Detailed knowledge of daemons, cron jobs, and system requirements for high traffic, fault tolerant, 24x7 websites, supporting a service-oriented architecture
* Experience with MVCs 
* Basic XML, TCP/IP, NFS, YML, mod_JAVA, and Apache application server knowledge
Required Personal Skills:
 * Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills
 * Strong initiative - capable of working on a self-sufficient basis and identifying areas of potential technical improvement
 * Self-management - capable of prioritizing and executing tasks
 * Problem solving - ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues
Preferred:
*  4+ years experiences in design, development and operation on web applications or websites from the front end to the back end.
 * Expertise in data structures and algorithm evaluation
 * Experience with Test Driven Development
 * Scrum/Agile development
 * Experience with other languages/systems
 * BS/MS degree
Job Benefits:
Develop the technology that power millions of daily unique visitors
Collaborate within a team of fervent business and technology enthusiasts
Work with the largest internet players, building software that significantly impacts vertical markets
Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded
Compensation:
Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)
More reasons to join Answers:
• Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones
• Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance
• Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry
• 100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options!
• Company paid group dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• Liberal employee performance bonuses
• Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start
• 10 holidays company paid
• 401k savings plan