Now Hiring: Junior PHP Developer
Cast Iron Coding is a web development studio in Portland, Oregon. Our clients include fortune 500 companies, nationally recognized nonprofit organizations, and medium-sized businesses. We’re a small company with big clients, and our success is built on our development team’s dedication to quality and communication.
We’re looking for a junior PHP developer to help us roll out sophisticated, MVC web applications for our clients. The ideal candidate is an early adopter of new web technologies and a grounded self-starter capable of delivering quality code. Because communication is so important to our projects’ success, we’re especially impressed by developers with diverse technical and nontechnical interests. If you’re a self-taught, clever, highly motivated PHP developer who’s a good fit for our office culture, we’re willing to provide the requisite on-the-job training and professionalization.
The environment at our Portland office is laid-back yet productive, and you won’t find a nicer group of people with whom to work.
What you'll be doing:
- Building and deploying client sites using the TYPO3 content management framework and its embedded MVC framework.
- Creating the occasional wordpress plugin.
- Working with cutting-edge PHP frameworks (FLOW3, Symfony2) to build scalable web applications for our clients.
- Collaborating with CIC’s front-end development team.
- Communicating directly with client stakeholders to clarify and document technical requirements.
Requirements:
- 1-3 years experience working with PHP and MySQL.
- 1+ years experience working with open source PHP platforms (Wordpress, Drupal, TYPO3, Magento, Expression Engine, Zend Framework, etc.).
- Proficiency with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
- Well versed in object-oriented development concepts.
- Strong communication and problem solving skills.
Nice to have:
- Some familiarity with MVC architecture.
- Experience contributing to or creating a plugin or extension for a popular open source project.
- Familiarity with version control (preferably, with Git).
- Familiarity with other languages (Ruby, Python, Objective-C, etc.).
- Familiarity with TYPO3 is not required, but is a huge plus.
- Familiarity with XML, SOAP, REST, AJAX.
What you’ll get:
- Salary that is commensurate with your experience.
- Paid holidays and vacation time.
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) for you and your family.
- A modest SEP IRA contribution.
- Periodic bonuses tied to your success and company profits.
- Free gym access and bike lockers.
- A quality workstation with Herman Miller furniture and an iMac.
- General flexibility around work hours.
Why you should come work at CIC:
- You won’t find smarter, kinder people to work with and you'll get to be a part of a fun, close-knit group of developers who genuinely enjoy working together.
- You'll be working in the Olympic Mills Commerce Center in the Eastside Industrial District (a building that is also home to Kill Rock Stars,Olympic Provisions, a Wine Bar, an awesome coffee shop, the inventor of the Wiki, and a number of PDX tech start-ups and interactive agencies).
To apply
To apply, please send your resume as well as a link to your portfolio (or examples of work you've done) to us at jobs@castironcoding.com. If you have a gitHub account, let us know your username so we can check out what projects you've contributed to. If you have a blog, or if you contribute to any open source projects, we'd love to hear about it. Please keep in mind that this is an on-site position. Agencies and offshoring companies need not apply.
