Lead PHP Developer

Guidepoint is a leading expert network firm connecting business decision-makers with experts around the world. Since our inception in 2003, we’ve arranged more than a half million interactions between our clients and experts. We support clients in identifying critical insights through a suite of services including phone consultations, in-person meetings, custom surveys and proprietary data products.

• Lead peers in implementation of new SOA architecture, while supporting existing web applications
• Weigh-in on database schema design
• Develop web applications using PHP & JS
• Software build management and deployment
• Aid in crafting an in-progress SOA architecture
• Follow and enforce coding standards and best practices (PSR-1)

• Bachelor's Degree or 5-8 years of Object Oriented programming experience in PHP
• Experience working with a PHP MVC framework (advanced knowledge of Symfony2 & Doctrine ORM preferred)
• Experience designing, coding and consuming Restful APIs
• Experience with AngularJS and Socket.io (Nodejs)
• Experience in MongoDB & MySQL
• Experience in message queues via RabbitMQ
• Experience configuring VHOSTS/SSL in Apache & Nginx
• Understanding of design patterns
• Experience offloading ginormous SQL queries (data processing, grouping, sorting, joins, inner selects) to PHP code
• Experience with caching, particularly with in-memory key/value storage (Redis)
• Master of Git version control. Must be able to assist in conflict resolution!
• Strong Linux skills
• Experience with deployment tools (Capistrano)
• Experience with Puppet & MCollective
• Experience with Agile software methodology
• Experience working with a production environment with zero or very minimal downtime
• Excellent communication & multitasking skills
• Must document everything and expect of others
• Must have ownership!

Nice to Have

• Experience with CoreOS & Docker
• Experience clustering and loadbalancing everything
• Experience with Machine Learning