Entrepreneur looking for a Programmer for long-term partnership
Required Knowledge
To qualify... You should be a respected and confident PHP Developer / PHP Web Developer with skills that cover the following:
- Expert back-end development in PHP & MySQL;
- WordPress theme/plugin development and WordPress APIs;
- LAMP VPS setup & administration (Ubuntu);
- Amazon Web Services;
- Version control systems (Mercurial/Git);
- Experience of working with RESTful APIs for developing web apps;
- PHP frameworks, Object-Oriented programming concepts & MVC;
- Awareness of modern web technologies (e.g. HTML5/CSS3);
- A willingness to develop front-end code when necessary;
- JavaScript / AJAX;
- Good communication and team working skills.
Any exposure to high traffic websites and solving scaling problems is advantageous, as would experience with the following: JavaScript MVC frameworks; HTML/CSS responsive layouts, Google Apps and Django/Python.