PHP Developer in Los Angeles and Las Vegas
Candidate must be located in the Las Vegas or Los Angeles area and have reliable transportation to and from work

Awesome Technologies is hiring a PHP developer immediately to assist in development of an online finance site, coded in PHP. Our parent company has been a market leader in online currency exchange since 2004. Awesome is a well funded start-up developing software to enable more people to have to advanced financial instruments and currency exchange that are only available to individuals with large amounts of capital.

You will be responsible for maintenance of our existing projects, enhancements, and dealing with other issues that may arise. You will be working under the direction of the Lead Developer.

Awesome Technologies is a fast paced, unique work environment located in Las Vegas, NV near the strip and offices with beach views in Malibu, CA. In operation since 2004, we are primarily focused in financial software development, but are transitioning into the development of new verticals and re-development of purchased verticals. Because of this, being bored will be difficult, as the projects will always be unique and challenging. We need a dynamic individual that is able to keep up with the demands of our development cycles, and can easily think on his/her toes.

General Qualifications:

· Able to work immediately

· PASSION for what you do and the desire to expand your knowledge

· Able to work on your feet well; not needing too much walk-through on daily issues

· Desire to write clean code and to have a clean, well designed codebase

· Weigh timelines of business against writing good, maintainable code

· Broad technical understanding of web development best practices, methodologies, and technologies in place in modern web environments

· Ability to quickly address site issues and changes as they arise and remedy most in a timely fashion

· Perform a mixture of new development, bug fixes, maintenance, and enhancements

· Give honest estimates of time to complete tasks, with understandable and justify-able time windows

· Strong methodology of testing code and testing practices that are congruent with a fast-paced environment and the release of stable code

· Give technical insight to projects being planned and developed

· You can take, absorb, and understand criticism well

· You don't want to be called a rockstar or a ninja, because you're likely better than the two put together

Technical Qualifications:

· 3+ years PHP 4/5

· 1+ year PHP 5.3

· Strong OOP understanding and designing well-formed objects in both MVC patterns and other patterns

· 2+ years of experience coding in HTML, JavaScript, CSS 2 & 3, and jQuery 1.4+

· Framework experience: CakePHP (1.3 & 2.0), Zend Framework, Code Igniter

· Unit-testing experience in PHP Unit or Simpletest

· Some experience with caching or speed optimizations

· "Developer" experience in Linux - can setup a LAMP stack and understand basic workings of Apache, htaccess rules, and compilation of modules

· "Developer" experience in MySQL: Understanding of good schema design, data types, normalization, indexes, and query optimization

· SVN or Git Experience required -- I can't see a developer working without either of these in 2012

Nice to have, but not required:

· C++ programming w/ sockets

Compensation:

· Full medical benefits

· Market salary