Hydra/Beverly Hills, CAHydra is the largest and fastest growing CPA affiliate advertising network distributing effective results-based campaigns through banners, social media, email and search marketing. Hydra delivers customers for advertisers including well-known household brands, online service providers, and hundreds of consumer product and service companies. Our thousands of publishers range from the largest portals and social network sites to a broad network of highly engaged vertical affiliates.
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Lead Developer to lead our software development efforts for a variety of in-house, enterprise-level marketing applications.
Job Description:
• Lead and mentor a small team of programmers and software architects in the development of highly scalable, robust web applications.
• Work with software architects during the design phase to offer insight for proposed solutions.
• Utilize experience to determine best methods for implementation of a particular software design.
• Ensure defined development standards and best practices are consistently being utilized by developers on your team by managing peer code reviews and other techniques.
• Handle merging of code from various development branches using CVS/SVN.
• Participate in project management process and be accountable for on-time and on-budget delivery of software projects.
Qualifications - A fully qualified candidate will have:
• 5+ years of professional developer experience within a team-oriented environment, including previous team leader experience and the ability to effectively motivate the team members.
• 3+ years of solid OO PHP5 experience utilizing a web application MVC framework architecture.
• Experience with Zend Framework, Symfony, and other PHP frameworks a plus.
• Solid experience in developing high-performance (millions of transactions) and high-availability (zero downtime) web applications.
• Solid understanding of web application MVC frameworks is important, but dependency on any particular framework brand is not; the ability to quickly adapt to a proprietary framework setup is critical.
• Solid experience in traditional LAMP environments and other tools such as CVS.
• Advanced knowledge of Javascript technologies such as AJAX, JSON, YUI Library.
• Knowledge of cross-browser development techniques and hurdles.
• Solid understanding of software design, coding and testing patterns.
• Strong ability to find solutions to challenging and often unique development obstacles.
• Experience in the online advertising industry—specifically CPA/CPC models—is a major plus.
• Excellent logic, analytical, and organizational skills with an uncompromising attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all department levels.
• Available to work in Beverly Hills, CA and able to work in the office five days a week (telecommuting is not available for this position).
Please respond with resume, code samples, salary requirements and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter.
Email it-jobs@hydranetwork.com to apply.
Compensation: Competitive salary, depending on experience.
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