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Sr. PHP developer sought for NY Metro pet-lovers startup

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:57 pm
by zootoo
Any dev's from the network want to apply?

Sr. PHP developer at zootoo LLC

Location: NY Metro
URL: http://www.zootoo.com/

Description
We're a very well funded web startup with eyes on a fast and spectacular success - in which 'very prompt return' equity is available. So if you are a PHP developer of high skill and experience, and you'd like the opportunity to make bank fast, read on...

We're after something that is hard to find in the PHP world - a skilled professional with banging OOP talent. We use PHP to its fullest extent and highly abstracted - we need someone who loves to play at this level. We're embarking on a big feature sprint, we need more talent to push this to the next level of velocity. We have multiple development streams producing features using a custom php framework that cuts down the tedium, allowing you to do the interesting/challenging/beautiful stuff - all in sustainable, maintainable and efficient coding styles of course.

Specifics, we're talking about you having :
- experience working with a variety of php frameworks (CakePHP, Savant, Symfony, etc. - you won't know ours, but knowledge of others will help a lot)
- experience building websites using highly reuseable, abstract, OOP code
- knowledge of and experience in using the various ajax-y/dhtml libraries out there.
- javascript creation and optimization skills

You'll be a more winning candidate to us if you have:
- experience working in the Scrum Agile development methodology.
- some layout skill (you know how to float things, nest things, div things - you don't use tables for layout.)
- experience optimizing websites for scalability (we're going to see some major traffic here, the code must scale)
- working in a development team with people with a variety of front- and back-end skill sets.

From our side, advantages of joining us are:
- we're a startup, there's equity consideration
- we're a starup, we move very quickly and your opinions are demanded
- our office is pet friendly
- we develop on Macbook pros (well, I think it's a plus.)
- we're very capable, so you'll be in good company

To move things forward then, please send us a resume, a link to your portfolio/sites you've done, a snappy cover letter and most importantly - some OOP PHP code samples: doesn't have to be 'runnable' code, the purpose of the request is for you to let your code speak for you. Show us some of your best work, stuff you're most proud of - think bigger than DB abstraction classes, forms manipulation classes, email composition and delivery classes, pagination classes... something you think of as impressive is what we want to see.

Send it all in to techjobs@zootoo.com