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The ideal candidate is self-motivated, creative, and can deliver rapid prototypes for new user interfaces and interactions for various online projects. The ideal candidate will collaborate with business owners to translate complex business initiatives into innovative solutions. A can-do-attitude, with the ability to energize and work with cross-functional teams is required.

Primary Responsibilities (in priority order):

• Develop features across multiple subsystems within our applications, including collaboration in requirements definition, prototyping, design, coding, testing and deployment 

• Analyze, design, coordinate and supervise the development of software systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems. 

• Investigate, analyze and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications 

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle. 

• Provide engineering support (when necessary) to our technical operations staff when they are building, deploying, configuring and supporting systems for customers 

• Analyze system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications for junior programmers. 

• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code. 

• Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities

• This position reports to the Director of Product Engineering and is a part of a 10 person team

• 8+ years in object-oriented PHP programming

• 8+ years experience with Javascript( jQuery/AJAX ), HTML5, CSS, Responsive design.

• 8+ years of experience in requirement analysis, design, development and implementation in OOD/OOP technologies

• 8+ years of experience with LAMP application programming/integration experience

• 10+ years years of experience with source code management practices, preferably Git or GitLab.

• Understands how to consume REST services utilizing JSON, JSONP, and XML.

• 6+ years' experience developing data-driven applications utilizing significant relational database engines as part of the overall application architecture (experience with any or all of the following highly desirable: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server)

• 8+ years' experience building web-based software systems, utilizing N-tier architectures, dynamic content, highly-scalable approaches, and complex security models/implementations

• Proficiency developing and troubleshooting complex software systems that run in mixed-environments including Linux, Unix and/or Windows

• 7+ years of experience End-to-end development experience is a must, Ruby experience is a plus.

• 5+ years of experience mentoring junior developers.

Compensation:

Based on experience