PHP Developer

Publishers Clearing House (PCH), with offices in Long Island, New York City, Boston and Portland, ME, is a leading interactive media company offering a broad range of commerce products, digital entertainment and services to consumers and advertisers.

PCH is currently seeking a strong PHP Developer to work on the development and enhancements of several PHP web sites across PCH.

• Collaborate and interface with Marketing Leads and/or Product Owners to help understand and size User Stories
• Develop and enhance Joomla/PHP web sites (actual coding)
• Ensure proper tracking of tasks and ensuring Spring Story commitments
• Work with Creative Development to get desired UI updates deployed on live site
• Work on selected critical defects or Production issues

• Bachelors Degree in a software development technology discipline required
• At least 2 years of web programming with PHP and MySQL
• Advanced knowledge working with Joomla and Zend frameworks
• Insight into proper setup and configuration of the Apache web server
• Proficient in Unix/Linux environment.
• At least 2 years experience working with front-end technologies ie Javascript, HTML, CSS
• Skilled at using RESTful api’s, JSON, and XML
• Experience using JIRA and Agile Methodology
• Experience using SVN for versioning