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.

This position offers an opportunity to work on challenging development projects in a highly collaborative team environment. Guidepoint is seeking a full-time PHP Developer to join its top-flight web development team. Our web development team is a highly collaborative organization consisting of developers and engineers with the highest levels of technical depth, programming skill and a passion for quality.

• Weigh-in on database schema design
• Develop web applications using PHP & JS
• Follow and enforce coding standards and best practices (PSR-1)

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years experience developing web based applications in PHP and LAMP stack
• Experience with web design & deployment technologies including Javascript, JQuery, XHTML, DOM, CSS
• Experience using MS SQL Server other relational databases.
• Problem solver and go getter
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills

Other desirable, but not required, skills include:

• Familiarity working on Linux operating system
• Experience working with an open source framework (Zend, Symfony, Yii, CodeIgniter, etc.) and MVC
• Knowledge of caching platforms
• Familiarity with Lucene/Solr
• Knowledge of typical development tools such as IDEs/debuggers, code repositories, bug tracking system