PHP Developer, Senior

PHP Developer, Senior

Would you like to join a fresh, ambitious, dynamic and fast paced development firm? Instaclick Inc. is a developer of high capacity websites that are typically in the top 1000 websites by traffic volume in the world. Our sites often have over a million unique visitors a day. Working with us will expose you to large site scaling issues and solutions that you may never experience with other organizations. Not only are we innovative but we utilize leading edge technology. Do not miss your opportunity to be apart of this exciting, vigorous, and mind-blowing organization!

Skills Requirements:
o Strong written/verbal communication
o Solid team player with passion to participate in mentoring and team building
o Strong web application documentation, design, coding and testing experience
o Proven analytical ability to create/modify application code to support new functionality.
o Strong debugging experience with code written by other developers
o Proven ability to provide effort and elapsed time estimates for assigned work.
o Proven ability to execute project deliverables within effort and elapsed time estimates
o Proven experience in meeting workload estimates as defined in project work plan.
o Experience with PHP Frameworks, like Zend.

Responsibilities:
o Construct, develop, code, debug and maintain web site applications.
o Conform to in-house software development processes
o Conform to define software design methodology for the development and implementation of Internet based application to support all aspects of web site functionalities.
o Perform code review and evaluation and determine recommendations for adaptation.
o Creation of Low Level Design Document from Functional Specification and Technical design document.
o Conduct Low Level Design Review with Team Lead and Technical Lead to ensure that the Low Level Designs conform to respective Functional Specifications and Technical Designs.
o Participate in code reviews with Team Lead and Technical Lead to ensure that the code adheres to the low level design, and that the code meets coding standards compliance.
o Apply rigorous testing methodologies and use cases to analyze and verify software programs, algorithms, data transformation, forms, reports and interfaces.
o Timely communication of issues and status information to Team Lead concerning system development activities.
o Generate application test data as necessary and validate any data conversion requirements for final implementation and production rollout.
o Participate in project status review meeting with Team Lead.
o Being responsible for the analysis, design and development of certain key business applications
o Working closely with the project manager and senior staff to ensure stated business objectives are met
o Assisting in the hiring of and manage additional developers if and when the project's schedules require them
o Planning and organizing the activities required to produce design documentation and unit tested code.
o Coordinating the efforts of all developers in the team and ensure the activities are executed according to the project plan and that target dates are met.
o Other duties as may be assigned by Instaclick Inc management.

Technical Expectations:
o 8+ years of production programming experience of which 4+ years of solid PHP design/coding/testing in Open Source environment building large scale distributed web sites.
o Experience working in a formal software development environment
o 2-3+ years of Object Orientation software coding experience for web application
o 1-2+ years of Working with a second Object Oriented language such as Perl or Java.
o Linux, Mac O/S, MySQL, PHP 4/5, Apache/Light HTTP technology experience based on LAMP model
o Computer Science trained graduate or with equivalent work experience
o Test Driven Development and Agile methodology an asset.