Senior PHP developer
Orchid Suites, a progressive software company
focused on Service Oriented Peer to Peer
Communities and Web Services.
The company is woman-owned and offers challenging work for capable, bright self-starters with a good work ethic and interest in the objectives of the company.
Full-time, Permanent, On-site (Washington DC)
Description
An ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a high-energy fast paced
environment, who has the ability to work well independently with
little supervision, who wants to help change the world and who can get
lots of little things done quickly
Orchid Suites offers a competitive salary and benefits package.
The company is woman-owned and offers challenging work for capable, bright self-starters with a good work ethic and interest in the objectives of the company.
Full-time, Permanent, On-site (Washington DC)
Description
- Reporting to CTO, a Senior LAMP developer is expected to help develop the next generation of online sports social network.
- Deliver projects on time, error-free, and meeting design criteria. Ensure system coding is thoroughly tested, providing reliable operation.
- Respond appropriately to clients, both internal and external. Ensure that expectations of managers and developers are met for all projects.
- Ensure that customer facing applications are fully available and implemented on schedule and that solutions are scalable, reliable, and effective.
- Work with other colleagues to maintain defined standards, develop improvements to standard techniques such as documenting code, using company established guidelines, and sharing knowledge. Work with managers and developers to deliver defect free projects on schedule.
- Maintain established turn around time for project completion and implementation; respond to emergencies (including off-hours emergencies) in a timely and professional manner.
- Produce reliable, scalable, and effective solutions that anticipate future growth.
- 5+ years of PHP (PHP 5 OOP)
- 4+ years of MySQL
- 4+ years of Linux
- Working knowledge of Apache
- Solid understanding and experience with SDLC methodologies
- Solid understanding and working knowledge of HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript
- Solid understanding of security issues that pertain to web development
- Experience with structured code libraries, frameworks, open source projects
- Experience with scaling in PHP & MySQL
- Solid understanding of caching & templating
- Solid understanding and working knowledge of Subversion and/or CVS
- Sound background in Computer Science
- Solid understanding of common design patterns
- Enthusiasm for coding
- MSSQL
- Interest in sports
- Experience with building social networks
- Experience with load balancing, clustering
- Caching experience at all levels of n-tier applications
- AJAX
- SEO
- Python, Ruby
- Flash/Action Scripting, Video streaming
An ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a high-energy fast paced
environment, who has the ability to work well independently with
little supervision, who wants to help change the world and who can get
lots of little things done quickly
Orchid Suites offers a competitive salary and benefits package.