Senior PHP Back-End Developer Job Description

The Senior Software Engineer will be part of a fast paced dynamic team that is directly responsible for implementing back office platform and web application solutions for our clients. Projects will include a wide range of development, maintenance, and implementation activities for Customer's loyalty shopping platform. Activities include development of platform infrastructure components in support of back office functions and application content, data feeds design, implementation, and handling, platform performance optimizations, and development and deployment of dynamic shopping sites, customer portals and other marketing services.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and deploy platform code and applications content for the Customer Commerce platform
• Work closely with product management to define and refine product requirements
• Interact closely with finance department on site operations

Skills/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) from a four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of both education and experience
• 5+ years of experience building and deploying medium-large scale applications in PHP
• Experience working through the complete product development lifecycle including specification and quality assurance
• Strong experience with PHP and LAMP stack
• Experience with PHP development frameworks such as Symfony
• 1+ years of experience with Java server-side development (JSP, servlets) with good understanding of memory & thread management as well as diagnostic and debugging techniques
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.
• Experience with Analytics, Reporting, or Data Warehouse applications
• Solid verbal and written communications skills
• Very detailed oriented

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience with emerging technologies and frameworks such as Hibernate and Spring
• Smarty or another PHP template framework, design patterns, MVC frameworks
• Web Services (SOAP, AJAX, etc.)
• Experience with server side frameworks like PHP, ASP or ASP.NET
• Product development lifecycle including specification and quality assurance
• Experience with e-commerce applications, ad networks, shopping search or targeting, analytics/reporting/data Warehouse applications, online affiliate marketing, SEO/SEM, and email marketing