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Killer Developer/Programmer Needed

Type: Full-time Job
Location: New York, NY

About the Company:

Founded in 2009, Petflow is an online pet food company headquartered in NYC that aims to generate significant customer loyalty and engagement through an interactive "food for life" program. We are a super early stage, young and fast paced company.

We’re looking to expand our team with a senior developer who can work on both back and front end technologies. The right candidate will not only have great programming skills but will be self driven and have the ability to independently manage and develop project requirements, both in the office and at home. Office is located in Chelsea, walking distance from Penn Station.

The startup is well-funded by two successful serial entrepreneurs.

Requirements:

We are looking for a PHP programmer that is also good at UI/CSS/HTML, JavaScript and database programming to help with a wide range of projects. We need someone who can do everything from backend programming to detail-oriented UI work.

The desirable candidate will have the following characteristics:

1. Loves To Code
2. Gets Things Done, Quickly
3. Continuously Refactors Code
4. Uses Design Patterns
5. Writes Tests
6. Leverages Existing Code
7. Focuses on Usability
8. Writes Maintainable Code
9. Can Code in Any Language
10. Knows Basic Computer Science

Key Requirements:

• Deep LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) environment experience
• Standards-compliant XHTML, CSS, Javascript, and AJAX experience
• Experience with implementing web optimization standards
• Minimum 2 years of strong Object Oriented design and programming experience
• Exceptional creative problem solving and analytical capabilities.
• Entrepreneurial excitement, a positive attitude and drive to get things done

Key Duties
• Development of advanced front end applications.
• Integration of various technology platforms into daily operations.
• Data collection and analysis.
• Application layer maintenance, improvements and developments.

Compensation
• Competitive, Flexible

Benefits & Perks

• Paid Vacation and Holidays
• Fun, young and entrepreneurial environment

This person must work well in a fast-paced, demanding, early stage, start-up like environment. Heavy process, huge development cycles, and layers of management won't be found here. Must be able to adapt and work quickly to consistently write and release user-facing products. Working on live code and traffic will be required.

No recruiters or telecommuting requests please.