This is a mid to senior level position building and maintaining our numerous high traffic Facebook apps. You would be part of a team responsible for writing backend php / mysql, and frontend html / css / javascript. We are a very agile team doing incremental deploys multiple times a day. Your code will impact millions of users and you will also be able to monitor how your code impacts revenue for the company.
About you:
Follow industry leader blogs and twitter feeds to stay current with new techniques and technologies at your disposal as a developer. Are a fast learner and can pickup new things quickly, be it a technique, framework, or language. May or may not have worked on a high traffic site yet, but the idea of doing so excites you rather than intimidates you.
Required Skills:
jQuery HTML - tableless CSS - above average (we don’t support IE6) OOP experience - common design patterns: Singleton, Factory, MVC, etc MVC framework experience Preferred Skills:
LAMP development experience Above average javascript knowledge Social media aware (have an active facebook / twitter / google+ account) Bonus Skills:
Facebook app or api experience High traffic experience and optimization for it Good debugging skills Js mvc experience (backbone.js) Experience with some "html5" aspects like local storage and pushstate jQuery plugin or javascript library authoring Can come up with interesting product ideas (we're always looking for new app ideas) Have a good UX/UI sense Have used media queries to create responsive layouts Contribute to open source projects Native mobile experience (iOS, Android)