Junior Application Developer

14 West provides the administrative support modern day companies need in order to establish themselves as industry leaders, inspiring businesses, and great workplaces. Comprised of Personnel & Talent Acquisition, Communications, Operations, Legal, Financial, Information Technology, and Management experts, 14 West offers its clients and their employees the ability to leave the care of infrastructure in the hands of professionals while their leaders focus on new ideas.

The Junior Applications Developer will be part of the Prototype Development Team at Publishing services, LLC. The main role of the Junior Application Developer is to support development and maintenance of ongoing development projects within the Prototype Team. These projects range from enterprise level Java and PHP Applications to quick scripting prototypes for clients. This role allows a junior level developer to learn many different programming languages, frameworks and enterprise level programming principals. Our goal is to teach a Junior developer as much as possible and create a knowledgeable, professional Software Engineer. Along with new technologies, you will work with developers and engineers who have a wide range of expertise from Senior Architects to other Junior Developers. Junior Application Developers have the capability to grow into many different roles and teams throughout the company.

* Analyze requirements. * Keep on track with deadlines. * Document designs, code and all project assets in an organized and up-to-date manner. * Provide initial analysis and produce accurate levels of effort. * Maintain code bases. * Provide solutions to complex engineering tasks. * Troubleshoot problems and issues with code and data. * Research emerging technologies and make recommendations for process improvements. * Participate in code reviews in a peer capacity. * Learn from other developers and grow their knowledge base.

* 2+ years working with modern web technologies * Strong HTML5/CSS Experience * Familiar with standards and best practices for web development * 2+ years working with Javascript * jQuery (or Prototype) and AJAX necessary * Familiar with callbacks, event handlers and functional programming * Experience debugging scripts in browser * Experience working with JSON * 2+ years working with PHP * OOP principles * Laravel, CakePHP or MVC framework knowledge and experience * MYSQL or similar SQL experience * Understanding of RESTful principles * Experience working with API’s * GIT and version control * Linux (any flavor) experience is a plus * Apache or nginx experience is a plus