web developer

• Front-end web UI & back-end web application development.
• Analyze requirements, architect & design solutions, troubleshoot and fix bugs, work with support as necessary. Assist in determining requirements, business processes, coding, testing, debugging.
• Generate quality PHP/HTML/CSS markup and JavaScript from Photoshop mockups.
• May be involved in modifying or adapting existing designs and minor interfaces and/or integrations for in-house development.

Western Power Sports is seeking a web developer with a strong technical background and a passion for writing high-quality extensible code. We are looking for entry-level to mid-level candidates with experience in building web applications with PHP and who aren’t afraid to learn something new along the way. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building and deploying high quality, highly reliable, scalable web applications.

Our business runs on a combination of an on-site IBM iSeries mainframe, and a fleet of cloud-based load-balanced autoscaling Linux server instances on AWS. We do a lot of work in Drupal open source content management platform so be prepared to dive into that if you haven’t already. The primary languages that we develop in are PHP, HTML5, and JavaScript but we do not necessarily limit ourselves to that area., * Self-starting learner with excellent communication and organizational skills.

• Strong understanding of PHP, application architecture and object-oriented design.
• Ability to work with minimal direction while maintaining a high level of productivity.
• Knowledge of how to develop in one or more web IDE’s (Integrated Development Environments), such as Eclipse, NetBeans, PhpStorm, Zend Studio, etc.
• Flexibility in a dynamically growing/evolving company.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux development environment and open source tools/platforms.
• A solid foundation of semantic HTML and CSS and at the very least minimal experience working with JavaScript and related libraries (jQuery, Dust.js, AngularJS, AJAX).

Desired Experience Includes:

• 2+ years experience building, testing and deploying web applications in a team environment.
• Expertise working in a LAMP and open-source environment.
• Experience with continuous integration and low-dependency architectures.
• Knowledge of cross-browser/cross-platform compatibility.
• Experience building applications that use REST based web services and JSON data structures.
• Comfortable learning and utilizing third-party APIs.
• Experience with version control systems (particularly Git)
• Comfortable learning and embracing new languages quickly ability to help us assess where new technologies, languages, and platforms may be things we should consider.

Bonus Points For:

• CMS experience, Drupal, Magento, Zend Framework.
• LAMP server (EC2) administration on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• MySQL, DB2, and/or other relational database knowledge.
• Mobile Development (iOS/Android particularly web-based HTML5 mobile responsive design)
• Adobe Photoshop and/or Illustrator experience.
• Providing URLs of sites you’ve developed.
• Providing your GitHub username so we can view some of your projects/code