Senior PHP5 Developer Job ID: 1530 Location: Needham, MA Type: Permanent Status: Closed Key Skills: PHP, PHP5, MySQL, Linux, Debian, OSX, Apache, Apache2 Description: Internet business seeking to hire a senior level PHP5 developer. Company is built using OO in PHP5, taking advantage of many new class related functions that PHP5 has to offer. Responsibilities: - Design and manage an object-oriented PHP5 codebase - Significant prior research with our existing codebase has led to many future-ready designs and optimizations - Lots of room for growth within the company - Technically challenging - Highly rewarding and enthusiastic team environment The Work environment includes: - 30 in. LCD displays and latest technology; Mac OS X, Linux-friendly - A team with a winning attitude in a fast-moving, high-energy environment - Full benefits - Executive desk with your own personal choice of ergonomic chair - All servers run GNU/Linux (Debian) or OpenBSD Requirements: - Strong object-oriented PHP experience, must have operational examples of prior PHP5 OO work - Strong understanding of MySQL 4.1-5.x, including experience with large-scale deployments utilizing replication and/or clustering - Strong Linux/Unix background, prior server maintenance - Operational code published and still in operation Preferred Qualifications: - Expertise with interfaces, MVC, HTML, CSS2, JavaScript, AJAX, templating, caching, sessions, and authentication - Experience with MySQL performance tuning and optimization (query optimization, index tuning, caching, and buffer tuning) - Experience with multi-master clustering and other high availability techniques - Linux optimization, Linux security, network administration - Hardware maintenance, RAID arrays, memory problem diagnosis - Mac OSX experience - BS/MS J-18808-Ljbffr