iVantage Group is currently seeking a talented PHP Developer for a great client of ours in the Detroit, MI area. This position is a full time, direct hire opportunity.
Position Description:
A PHP Developer works on a project-by-project basis with other engineers, web developers, business and marketing team members to create an intuitive experience for website visitors and clients. This includes extending and improving an object-oriented PHP framework, building solutions and maintaining existing applications in a high-energy environment.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build Great Web Sites: work with other engineers, developers, architects, QA, system engineers and project managers in solving new and existing technical challenges
- Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk: understand requirements, implement solutions, provide administration tools and documentation for specific projects
- Be There When Needed: perform scheduled on-call duties
- Speak Up: participate in Design and Code Reviews
- Find A Better Way: follow and enhance existing development processes; Measure and verify that new and old code has acceptable performance and scalability; Maintain ownership of the projects assigned
- Get It Done: deliver accurate estimates, provide regular feedback and consistently meet project deadlines
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Exceptional Object Oriented PHP Development Experience: four (4) + years of professional-level OO PHP 5 experience, including experience with MVC Frameworks
- Plays Nice With Others: collaborative development experience, able to explain complex ideas and concepts to non-technical team members
- Unit Testing Makes You Happy: understand how and why unit testing delivers better solutions and speeds up maintenance
- Laser Vision: superb attention to detail
- Experience with Web Standards philosophies and modern XHTML/HTML /CSS markup recommended
- Related experience in software testing and design desired
- Team-oriented experience highly desired
- Excellent oral and written communication skills regardless of audience
Minimum Education/Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software development, art and technology, information technology, information systems or equivalent work experience
- Established portfolio of work and/or code samples
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to effectively write and modify code for 8 plus hours/day
Please send resumes to Gina Maurino at gmaurino@theivantagegroup.com or apply online at www.theivantagegroup.com
