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Home Based Senior Web Developer

Interested in having a new challenging position to utilize your background and experience!! Would you like to have a chance of working on an interesting opportunity with top notch engineers and developers!! Still looking for a wonderful position with competitive pay rate and salary expectations! Interested in working to design and develop applications for kids!! Come and Join our client. Our client is an educational website directed for kids and is looking for a savvy Senior Web Developer with solid knowledge with Drupal CMS, PHP, CSS, and Javascript. If you are interested in that position, please reply back with the following:

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Position Title: SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER

Location: San Francisco, CA

Type of Contract: 3 month contract to permanent

Start Date: ASAP

POSITION SUMMARY

Our client is the leading social networking site for children and *tweens*. We seek a Senior Web Developer to help build our next generation platform.

This is a contract position with the potential for permanent employment.

Company is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have a need for candidates who are available full-time and prefer Bay Area Candidates. Position will be a combination of on-site and telecommute. Candidates must be comfortable working with both on and off site co-workers as many of our team work remotely. This position reports to the Manager of Software Development

OUR ENVIRONMENT

Environment is very fast paced so candidate must be able to prioritize efforts and be able to adapt to rapidly changing conditions. We seek people who are self-motivated and committed to achieving excellence in very short timeframes. We are passionate about our product. The team is friendly and professional. The company is growing rapidly and so this is an ideal time to join early. We employ an agile development methodology.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

In this position you*ll be responsible for developing and delivering the best technical solutions in a highly scalable, multi-tier environment by translating design story boards into operational applications.

As a Sr. Developer, you will be engaged in development at all levels and play a critical role in driving our client to its next level.

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

 MINIMUM 5 years experience developing web applications targeted to the consumer market

 MUST HAVE experience developing and delivering a large web application through its lifecycle of versions 1, 2 and beyond.

 MUST HAVE extensive knowledge of LAMP based development.

 MUST HAVE 1 to 2 Years of Drupal CMS Framework experience

 MUST HAVE expertise as a PHP developer

 MUST HAVE comprehensive experience working with MySQL and UNIX/Linux (Redhat).

 Strong understanding of basic web skills (D/HTML, CSS and Jscript).

 Solid experience with Ajax and interaction with front-end technologies.

 Experience working with Web Services (XMLRPC, SOAP) in a highly scalable, highly available environment.

 Working knowledge of Web servers (Apache, Lighttpd).

 Working knowledge of relational databases (primarily MySQL).

 Working knowledge of Zend Platform and Zend Studio.

 Familiarity with Bugzilla and CVS or Subversion.

 MUST BE comfortable working in a distributed, agile, collaborative environment.

 MUST BE an excellent written and verbal communicator.

EDUCATION:

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent in work experience

Employer Posted:Thursday, August 28, 2008