Lead PHP Developer

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- Lead peers in implementation of new SOA architecture, while supporting existing web applications - Weigh-in on database schema design - Develop web applications using PHP & JS - Software build management and deployment - Aid in crafting an in-progress SOA architecture - Follow and enforce coding standards and best practices (PSR-1)

- Bachelor's Degree or 5-8 years of Object Oriented programming experience in PHP - Experience working with a PHP MVC framework (advanced knowledge of Symfony2 & Doctrine ORM preferred) - Experience designing, coding and consuming Restful APIs - Experience with AngularJS and Socket.io (Nodejs) - Experience in MongoDB & MySQL - Experience in message queues via RabbitMQ - Experience configuring VHOSTS/SSL in Apache & Nginx - Understanding of design patterns - Experience offloading ginormous SQL queries (data processing, grouping, sorting, joins, inner selects) to PHP code - Experience with caching, particularly with in-memory key/value storage (Redis) - Master of Git version control. Must be able to assist in conflict resolution! - Strong Linux skills - Experience with deployment tools (Capistrano) - Experience with Puppet & MCollective - Experience with Agile software methodology - Experience working with a production environment with zero or very minimal downtime - Excellent communication & multitasking skills - Must document everything and expect of others - Must have ownership! Nice to Have - Experience with CoreOS & Docker - Experience clustering and loadbalancing everything - Experience with Machine Learning