Senior Lead PHP / Drupal Backend Architect and Developer
Company: Trot With Spot
Posting Date: March 3rd 2013
Reports to: Company Co-Founders
How to apply: Please send resume to Charles@trotwithspot.com.
Location: Telework
Hours per week: To be discussed
Compensation: To be discussed
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Trot With Spot is a Toronto based startup that is developing an online dog walking community which intends to revolutionize the way the dog walking industry works
THE POSITION
Your job will be to architect, develop, test, and support new web applications and you should have experience with developing / working on front end and back-end work. We are looking for a dynamic and efficient senior developer who will architect and develop our website through the implementation of the site from start to finish including testing. You will be responsible for full life cycle software development (design, development, testing, and maintenance) for code written.
You love developing, maintaining and monitoring applications while building innovative new features. The perfect candidate will need a keen eye for details and high standards for code quality and efficiency. Knowledge of best practices in building scalable applications is highly required. Part of the job of the candidate is to provide accurate timing estimates on their work with the ability to quickly to solve day-to-day issues but design for the long term while providing consistent daily updates to the team members
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
• You know Drupal 6.x and 7.x inside out and are an active Drupal module contributor in the Drupal community
• You of course are a PHP / MYSQL expert and you use HTML, CSS, SQL extensively
• In your last a few projects, you designed websites that can handle large volume website
• You can squeeze the last drop of juice out from an Apache server on Linux
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent desired
• Solid experience developing websites with a combination of: PHP / MySQL development using Ubuntu Linux and Apache environment - required
• Solid experience developing Drupal modules - required
• Worked with APIs such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, etc.
• Familiarity of Unix / Linux OS working environment; configuration and command line usage
• Knowledge of Git (Source Code Control / Management SW) an asset
• Experience as back end developer practitioner with an impressive portfolio of completed web design projects with an ecommerce platform
• Superior attention to detail and a strong ability to Q/A one's own work required
• Writes clean, compliant code – no messy stuff!
• Can communicate tech problems to a non-technical client team
WHO ARE YOU?
• You love programming. Other people go to beach to relax, you read Design Patterns for fun
• You are unconventional: if you feel bringing your laptop to a Starbucks and work from there will be more productive, you will do it and in the end, you finish your work 20% faster.
• You are a master of constructive confrontation: you treat different opinions as learning opportunities, you give feedback to other team members in a way that builds better solutions
• You get the job done, everything else comes second
• You speak fluent English and feel comfortable working in a virtual team because all your colleagues are around the world: Canada, India, Europe.
• You don't need a boss to look over your shoulder – you are your own boss
WHY WORK FOR TrotWithSpot?
• We offer a competitive salary
• You can enjoy working from home, with a virtual team, and with very flexible working hours
• Work within a truly international team solving complex problems
• Be part of a disruptive technology that will change the dog walking industry forever