Developers wanted!

We are looking for thoroughbred PHP coders. Do you want to work with some of the smartest and best in class on fascinating projects to provide awesome solutions to well known customers under nearly perfect conditions.

Position: "PHP Software Developer"

Required skills:

- strong knowledge and proficiency in PHP (function as well as object oriented) - it does not matter for how many years you have been practicing, but you need to be able to write clean, properly documented code as well as test cases and should be able to use the right tools for debugging and measurement of how well your code performs. You should be able to write efficient code in an efficient way.

- experience in using (R)DBMS, such as for example MySQL or PostgreSQL

- experience in using either of CVS / SVN / GIT / MERCURIAL (or any other distributed versioning system)

- command of the english language without difficulties

- vi(m), ssh, rsh, scp, rsync, screen (even though you might prefer other tools for your daily work it is necessary that you are able to perform some tasks directly on any remote host)

- strong communication skills as you will work in a team and might meet the one or the other manager occasionally

- developer mindset (sticking to the coding style guide given, quick adoption of new technologies as the situation requires, willingness to learn new techniques and technologies and to become one of the best in that field, loyalty to your team and to the product, result driven)

Desired skills:

- proficiency in using at least one PHP framework , e.g. symphony, Zend Framework or YII

- proficiency in using at least one PHP template system

- proficiency in using of HTML, CSS, JavaScript (you need to be able to fix a broken layout or script every now and then) 

Nice to have:

- XML, XPATH, XSLT

- couchDB, mongoDB, lightSQL, noSQL

- apache, lighttpd, nginx, gwan, memcached, cron

- chef, puppet

- SCRUM or Kanban

- API - knowledge ( be that facebook, amazon, ebay, paypal or heidelpay)

- experience in code review

- proficiency in optimizing code for security, performance, availability, scalability, distributed systems

We offer:

- interesting tasks, yet sometimes it means to crack the seemingly impossible with a smart solution

- you might choose your working environment  - as long as that grants you to work efficiently

- one step deployment

- agile development (we use KanBan to manage projects, but other than that we expect YOU to know what to do)

- free soft drinks, water & coffee

- we will buy you the text books for the work related things you want to learn - as we will pay for a lecture or a  course and the tests for you to get certified on that topic and might even send you off to a conference (well, actually you are free to choose on how to spend your 3K education budget throughout the year)

- also you get a nice (and if you wish even quiet) desk in a nice and cosy office close to the center of munich, while it was no team decision to get into that office space everyone here agrees that it is a nice place to work

- an above the market salary - yes, we pay slightly more than others, but we pay for quality only and not for glitter nor for doom

- NO scheduled overtime - but we demand that you are willing to be on stand by duty rotating with your team mates to make sure that we can always intervene if a system goes haywire (read: we expect you to work 40 hours a week for us on the average and we want you to take the overtime from one week or month off in the next possible time - and we are serious about that)

- NO pool, NO spa, NO lounge, NO terrace, NO kicker, NO free beer, NO suits, NO free parking, NO free lunch, NO bonus granted, NO extra granted, NO premium granted, NO smoking in the office, NO titles, NO ranks, NONE of that

- respect for your work and your efforts, admiration of knowledge and skill put to work

The position is open for immediate placement.

If you would like to apply for this position then please drop us a line along with a sample of your skills (not more than 100 lines of code and it does not need to run standalone, but should demonstrate your idea of efficient but still readable code) and we will get in touch with you so that you can send us some more info about you. Note: We know how to use a web search engine.