Senior PHP Developer - Scalable Features, Flexible Schedule

Grooveshark; Gainesville (FL); On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Make-your-own work schedule

Free meals from in-house chef

Job summary

A tech-focused company in Gainesville, Florida is looking for a skilled developer to create new features and improve existing ones. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience with SQL, proficiency in LAMP stack development and a passion for learning new technologies. You will work with a variety of modern technologies and enjoy perks such as a flexible work schedule and free meals from an in-house chef. This role calls for high attention to detail and humor while working in a team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience developing on the LAMP stack.
• Extensive experience with SQL.
• Passion for learning about new technologies.
• High LOC/bug ratio.

Responsibilities

• Create new features and improve upon existing ones.
• Improve code speed, cleanliness, and security.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks.
• Assist with code reviews.

Skills

High quality code writing

Attention to detail

LAMP stack development

Extensive SQL experience

Lower-level languages (C/C++)

Version control software

Humor

Love for music

Tools

MongoDB

Redis

memcached

hadoop

version control software

Nginx

Job description

• Create new features and improve upon existing ones.
• Improve on the speed, cleanliness, and security of existing code.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks.
• Identify and implement new technologies and strategies for scaling purposes. (This means freedom to adopt new technologies you take a liking to and can vouch for.)
• Assist with code reviews for both current and prospective employees.
• Work with cool technologies like: memcached, MongoDB, Gearman, Redis, custom chat server developed in-house, hadoop and plenty more (experience with this tech not mandatory, but interest is!)

THE PERSON:

• Enjoy writing high quality, easy to read, self-documenting code. Passion for learning about new technologies.
• High attention to detail.
• High LOC/bug ratio.
• Able to follow coding standards.
• Well versed in best practices & security concerns for web development.
• More pragmatic than idealistic.
• Experience developing on the LAMP stack (able to set up a LAMP install with multiple vhosts on your own.)
• Extensive experience with SQL.
• Some experience with lower level languages such as C/C++.
• Experience with version control software
• Sense of humor.
• Love for music.

BONUS POINTS:

• Well read in Software Engineering practices.
• Experience with an SQL database and optimizing queries for high concurrency on large data sets.
• Experience with noSQL databases like MongoDB, Redis, memcached, Nginx, Gearman, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, etc.
• Experience working on large scale systems with high volume of traffic.
• Useful contributions to the open source community.
• Experience with Smarty or other templating systems.

PERKS:

• Make-your-own work schedule
• In-house chef providing free meals everyday (including vegetarian)