OleOle is seeking an experienced PHP Web Developer for a contract position.

As a PHP Web Developer at OleOle, you will be part of the team responsible for a major PHP-based social media site involving blogs, social networking, e-commerce, multimedia, and content management. This role will involve lots of heads-down programming within a LAMP-stack environment. The successful candidate will need a proven track record of success working on a large scale 24/7 high traffic global website in a complex technical framework.

Required skills and experience:

• Bachelors degree, preferably in a related field (comp science, IT, etc.)

• Minimum 5 years experience with PHP web application development

• Expert in PHP (4 and 5)

• Very strong experience working with PHP MVC frameworks (experience with Symfony specifically would be a huge plus)

• Object oriented design experience - you need to have very strong OO programming knowledge and be able to apply OO programming principles within PHP

• Knowledge of common design patterns

• Advanced database design skills and expert knowledge of SQL

• Experienced navigating around a *nix command line interface

• Experience using version control systems (either SVN or CVS required)

• Good understanding of blogging software and content management systems

• Very strong JavaScript

• Very strong HTML, XHTML

• Good with CSS

• Strong team player and ability to “hit the ground running”

• Knowledge of soccer a big added plus

All shortlisted candidates may be required to complete one or more technical tests during the interview process.

To apply, please submit your resume with a cover letter to employment@oleole.com