Lead Engineer at Travel Startup Ready to Take Off
- Full-time
Company Description
travoom.com is the curated marketplace for sports bucket list travel.
travoom.com empowers people to identify a sports bucket list event/adventure and without any search requirements, simply presents the traveler with vetted components necessary to bring the trip to life -- tickets, lodging, flights and beyond.
Searching and successfully planning a trip around an iconic sports event/adventure is time-consuming, frustrating, overwhelming and often-times elusive.
travoom.com’s searchless travel approach means a sports bucket list trip can be discovered, planned and purchased in a matter of minutes without the endless search-driven lunacy and inefficiency that comes with all travel planning.
Job Description
You will be working on PHP-based web application. Not just heads-down programming to rock the world, but step up to a challenge to consistantly do the impossible on a consistant basis. We have been using a crack team of offshore Chinese, but we are building a team to take this in-house and we want to keep it that way! A lot can be said for company culture, well, here is your chance to be ground floor on building our culture. We want to work with the best, hard working people who will get behind our vision of how we are going to change travel. Come "Drink the KoolAid" and let's prove SEARCH IS DEAD.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) development;
- MongoDB;
- MVC Framework (e.g. Symfony, Yii, Zend, Codeigniter);
- Javascript, jQuery.
Qualifications and Work Experience:
- Bachelors degree or higher OR show us that you are smarter than those who do
- We hope you will have 4-6 years of experience under your belt, but we are willing to give the right guy the opportunity he deserves
Additional Information
Join our quest to disrupt a 6 trillion dollar market! Comp includes cash and equity. If you have startup experience then you know the game. Big upside and perks. Being in the travel industry you will enjoy fantastic "bucket list" trips every year. Our first event is the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Favela party anyone?
Assholes need not apply :)