Web Developer at Niiyo

Job Description

• The Web Developer position is part of small focused team of talented developers.
• The team is responsible for estimating development effort, and then leading a development team to deliver quality product on time.
• The team is small and focused on building out the ecommerce and retail site structure in North America.
• Using Magento and Laravel 5.0 you get to work the best of ecommerce platforms and php frameworks.
• With the exciting fitness space there is never a lack of fresh ideas, or new development projects to jump in on.
• We have a small and very collaborative team.
• If you enjoy being involved in all facets of ideation, storyboarding, design ideas, and seeing projects through to deploy, this position is perfect for you.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership of web projects
• Architect and develop web-based application systems across many sites and brands
• Implement scalable systems that meet business requirements
• Participate in design of new products
• Coordinate with outside vendors, as needed, to accomplish goals
• Mentor and train junior developers and developers
• Enforce standards, review code, approve code for deployment
• Be a self-managing, full participant in cross-functional teams: define tasks and assignments and complete them by committed dates and timelines and help teammates do the same.
• Take the lead in setting up team meetings and coordinating with product owners.

Qualification

• Minimum of four-year degree Computer Science, Information Systems or related field OR equivalent experience.

Experience:

• 5+ years web development experience
• 3+ years of PHP experience
• 2+ years experience with e-commerce websites
• Experience writing custom web application and software required

Skills:

• Expertise with all aspects of a modern LAMP (Linux (Ubuntu 12.04), Apache, Nginx, Varnish, MySQL 5.6, PHP 5.3+) environment
• Experience with Laravel 5.0
• Expertise with Magento ecommerce platform, EAV data models, Magento API's
• Expertise with PHP 5.3 + object oriented code (Namespaces, SPL, Keywords, Magic Methods, Type Hinting)
• Expertise with SQL and relational databases with the ability to optimize queries and design schema's for large systems
• Fluency with Javascript and libraries such as jQuery and Backbone
• Experience with front-end build tools & workflows (Gulp, Bower)
• Experience with CSS frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap)
• Experience with working with source control tools: GIT, SVN.
• Experience with PHP frameworks (Symfony 2, Silex, CakePHP) and libraries (Composer, Doctrine2, Zend, PEAR)
• Working knowledge of Python and other server side scripting languages: Ruby, NodeJs, Perl, Bash a plus.
• Experience with architecture and scaling of websites, specifically e-commerce sites in the cloud (AWS, Linode, Rackspace Cloud)
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills
• Understanding and experience with agile development methods, specific experience with Scrum is an asset.
• Ability to assist non-technical staff to write requirements and develop plans
• Ability to self-organize and prioritize tasks with more than one ongoing project and see projects through to completion
• Ability to build and maintain AWS server structure. Including implementation of load balancers, elastic bean stalk, and other potential configuration.
• Implement and maintain DNS records and website security protocols.