PHP Developer (Palo Alto)

What we're looking for

We're seeking experienced web developers who want to join a dynamic and exciting company delivering some of the most interesting products on the web. This is a meaty job: you'll own the entire "glue" layer at JotSpot with lots of responsibility.

You should have...

• At least 3-5 years of professional web development experience, including at least one large-scale, successfully-launched project in a tech lead role.
• Expert knowledge of PHP, including knowledge of object-oriented programming in PHP (and more importantly, having good judgement in knowing when OO should be used, and how much).
• Strong experience with MYSQL/SQL and creating database schemas.
• Experience using XML-RPC in PHP.
• You should know your way around Unix.
• Familiarity with http protocol and ability to use it for low-level troubleshooting as well as experience tweaking the configuration of Apache webservers.
• Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Ability to work productively with minimal supervision.
• Tolerance for the overhead of rapidly iterating toward greater usability. Insistence on complete/frozen specifications just won't work here.
• A feel for good design -- both in terms of engineering and user experience. Along with the drive and ability to turn that feel into working products.
• An affinity for Unreal Tournament, old-school Game Of The Year edition

And some nice-to-haves:

• Practical knowledge of relevant W3C standards (XHTML, DOM, CSS) and the de-facto standards (XHR, browser properties, etc) is a plus.
• Contributions made to an open source project
• CVS / SVN
• Ant
• Familiarity with Eclipse
• VI / Emacs
• Experience writing plug-ins (for any system)
• Handy with regexes
• Can build small tools in Python / Perl / PHP / Ruby
• Shell scripting

Why Jot

Jot is a great place for a hardcore PHP person to work.

We "get" Open Source. We've funded the development of huge portions of the Dojo open source framework and are continuing to introduce new features and applications based on it.

Combined with the Jot platform's amazing flexibility and its server-side JavaScript, it's the perfect place to work for folks who get the web and think it's fun to use dynamic languages, on either side of the HTTP connection, to rapidly bring an array of cool products to market.

If you like what you read, please learn more about the company at www.jot.com and send your resume to jobs@jot.com