Senior Developer
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Not Applicable
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Internet
Function: Information Technology
Company profile: BuzzDial lets you instantly share reactions to live events and shows as they happen using our web platform or suite of mobile apps. We're based in Auckland, New Zealand and have users around the world and global ambitions. Our tight and talented team is growing fast - and we're hiring across a wide range of roles.If you want to work with a team that prides itself on being the best, work with awesome clients and passionate users around the world and are committed to delivering amazing, well-crated digital experiences that captivate users you should join us!If you fancy joining a team which is scaling up some of the most technical and beautiful faces on the way to the summit, pick a role from the fine selection on this page, or even speculatively drop us a line. We would be very happy to hear from you. Working in this business will be both fun and career-defining!
Description: If you're a server-side dev who understands the difference between hypertext and hyperbole then we've got something going on.We're looking for a senior developer with experience using PHP and MySQL across Amazon Webservices. Imagine leaving behind the politics, panics attacks and painful cruft of legacy systems for something clean, modern and from the ground-up your making, and you've imagined your new job at BuzzDial.
Requirements: Primary Objective: Based on milestones from the program roadmap, and strategic planning activities, the Senior Server Side Developer will develop, maintain and contribute code and processes to ensure an efficient, reliable and increasingly comprehensive platform. Activities include the using PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and AJAX to develop our web platform as well as supporting APIs for mobile apps, and managing tools and processes for our development and production infrastructure.Skills and expertise:      Ability to work independently, take initiative, and contribute to new ideas required in a diverse, fast-paced, deadline-driven team environment.Organization and analytic skills, with strong problem solving ability.Excellent written and verbal communications skillsCreative thinker who thrives in a small-team environment.Good sense of humor :) 3+ years of experience in design & development of commercial web applications. Experience in design implementation of large scale, high traffic consumer-facing sites is a huge plus.Detailed knowledge of web application development and extensive experience using PHP and Javascript as well as relational databases such as MySQL.Proven hands on experience with JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, AngularExperience developing cross-browser frontends using XHTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript.Experience with the LAMP stackExperience with Amazon Web Services and associated toolsKnowing the trade off between server side performance and features. Having the ability to come up with innovative solutions to scalability and performance problemsFamiliarity with Memcached and caching strategies.Experience with version control systems such as SVN and GITHands on experience with LINUX especially using command line tools and writing SHELL scriptsExperience in building or working on a metrics / analytics / business intelligence system.Strong Computer Science fundamentals.Bachelor's degree (in Computer Science or related field) or equivalent with 3+ years direct hands on experience. 
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