Summary
We are searching for outstanding web developers to be responsible for developing innovative, reusable web-based tools for progressive online activism and community building. Our web developers work closely with our project managers, strategists and design team members to develop specifications and make recommendations on the use of new and emerging technologies. Programming and database administration are the elements of this position.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Project Managers and other members of the Development Team to both develop detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables and timelines, and to ensure timely completion of deliverables
- Produce project estimates during sales process, including expertise required, total number of people required, total number of development hours required, etc
- Determine appropriate architecture, and other technical solutions, and make relevant recommendations to clients
- Communicate to the Project Manager with efficiency and accuracy any progress and/or delays
- Engage in outside-the-box thinking to provide high value-of-service to clients
- Alert colleagues to emerging technologies or applications and the opportunities to integrate them into operations and activities
- Build report interfaces and data feeds
- Work closely with operations and infrastructure to build and scale back-end services
Technical Skills
- Develop innovative, reusable Web-based tools for activism and community building
- Exposure to PHP MVC frameworks is required (like code igniter, kohana, yii or similar)
- Experience in developing large intranet platforms (performance centric)
- Strong OOP PHP5 skills required
- Experience working on relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
- Convert raw images and layouts from a graphic designer into CSS/XHTML themes
- Git and SVN know how is required
- Habit of coding with security in mind
- Exposure to Automated Testing Tools is a plus
- NOSQL database experience a plus
- Linux server management experience a plus
Required Skills
- BS in computer science or a related field, or significant equivalent experience
- 3 years minimum experience with HTML/XHTML and CSS
- 5 years minimum Web programming experience, predominantly PHP
- 5 year minimum experience working with relational database systems such as MySQL
- Experience developing and implementing open source software projects is a plus
- Self-starter with strong self-management skills
- Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
- Good Troubleshooting and problem solving abilities