Technical Leader - PHP Development (closed)

New York, NY
$130,000 compensation
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Job Description

A New York-based leading provider of full-service online marketing solutions seeks a fulltime or contract Lead PHP Developer.

  • 10+ years experience in a Software Development role.
  • 5+ years experience in high-traffic internet-facing environment; solid experience engineering robust web-based prototypes and production systems that can support millions of active users.
  • Current or former role acting as the development owner of an application or user interface; as comfortable making technical decisions around architecture or design patterns as you are representing the engineering team in discussions with project management, business teams, and organizational leadership.
  • Background in engineering end-to-end solutions that utilize distributed systems and network system architecture to accommodate 24/7 operation.
  • Expert level experience in Object Oriented Programming with PHP5+. Will consider Ruby-on-Rails with some PHP.
  • Experience working with high-volume Oracle or other object-relational database management systems.
  • Ability to optimize DML and PL/SQL for scalability.
  • Several years experience with Model-View-Controller (MVC) separation; PHP Symfony framework specific experience highly recommended as it’s our PHP framework of choice.
  • Well-versed in unit test creation and working with continuous integration environments such as Jenkins and Cruise Control.
  • Extensive experience with Unix/Linux, Web Services (SOAP/REST), XML/XSL, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS; frontend web design experience.
  • Strong verbal & written communication skills.
  • Participation and interest in software development industry trade conferences, seminars, and/or training.
  • Experience, knowledge, and discipline in standard system development lifecycle practices including translation of business requirements into a system design document, source code version control (CVS, git, etc.), and maintenance, to name a few.
  • 3+ years experience working in agile environment (Scrum, Lean, or XP).
  • Project Management experience or formal training is a plus.
  • BS degree; MS degree would be desirable.


Participate in the growing, fast-paced industry of online marketing, advertising and publishing.

Join the leader in solutions specializing in the areas of Affiliate Marketing, Search Marketing, and Lead Generation. Our client offers a full range of benefits, including incentive pay.