More than 10 years of successful experience both on the Ukrainian and international IT market digital holding LEZGRO is developing web projects, make creative design solutions and flexible software. We also provide consulting and business process optimization. One of our core areas is creating start-ups. We already have created 15 innovative and exclusive start-up projects. Our team is high professionally so we easily deal with software development of any complexity.

We develop social networks, portals, online stores and other solutions. We are interested in aspects such as high load, usability, the use of innovative tools and technologies to optimize products. We cooperate with foreign start-ups, venture capital fund Tigipko and Venture, and so on.

LEZGRO - is Development partner of TA Venture in different Projects.

Take Advantage Venture (TA Venture: http://www.taventure.com) - is a venture Company investing in innovative Internet projects in Ukraine, Russia and other CIS countries, as well as in the U.S. and Europe.

We can nicely teach people and have few examples when beginner grew professionally to confident developer in half a year. Currently we develop and implement a system of stuff training and development (specialized IT training as well as soft skills). We regularly carry out internal periodic seminars, lectures and presentations. For example, one of our employees - Pavel Kruchina - is winner of the Ukrainian Championship "UA Web Challenge@, he has great experience in systems support for 80 powerful servers.

We expect from our employees a serious approach, human mentality is even more important for us than knowledge: responsibility, commitment, desire to develop, discipline, ability to clearly hear and perform tasks, ability to look at the problem broadly, initiative and suggestion of the solutions.

Representative office of IT company is looking for a Senior PHP Developer.

As Senior PHP Developer/Team Leader, you'll have a chance to participate in growing all of our startups, working with their specific teams for six to nine months at a time to help establish or correct the technology direction.  You'll design and develop innovative ways of addressing business and technology problems, and you'll have a chance to mentor other developers on your team.  If you're contributing to one or more open source projects, you can continue to participate on them while working in our teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and participate in the software development process and introduce or enforce best practices
• Technology mapping to business requirements
• Manage project scope, change requests, and bug fix requests
• Guide the team in defining the technical architecture including the database schema
• Formulate strategies and methods in coordination with the business owners to gather functional requirements and capture them in standard notations like use cases
• Plan and allocate work for the team
• Monitor and report progress in development activity
• Manage, mentor, and provide technical guidance to other project teams or business units
• Review and improve upon current processes and methodologies  
• Improve the team's technical competence through training of existing and new team members
• Understanding of project management practices  
• Managing and delivering projects from concept to implementation

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional programming experience
• Proficient in PHP
• Knowledge in ORM, DAO, and other database abstraction tools or mechanisms
• Knowledge of PHP web development frameworks
• Expert in object-oriented design, object-oriented programming, and MVC implementation
• Experience developing mid- to large web systems  
• Experience setting up policies for the team's source control system (Subversion, Git)
• Experience working with, or developing, third-party APIs  
• Good practices in agile software development, including test driven development Personal Qualities
• Documented participation or contribution to the development, testing, documentation, or production use of open source projects, regardless of language or basic technology
• Intermediate (or higher) written and spoken English
• Experience in design or development of stateless, scalable systems based on services-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Self-directed and strategic planner under stress and tight deadlines
• Good communication skills;have you published a popular article or blog?  Have you spoken at your users group or at some conference recently?  Tell us about it!