The following skills are essential:

• Working familiarity with Linux
• Strong PHP development skills
• Good competence with SQL
• Understanding of good object-oriented development

The following skills would be highly advantageous:

• Experience with Apache
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL database
• Understanding of character sets and encoding, and i18n issues
• Good understanding of Subversion and other version control tools
• Understanding of open source development and licenses
• Knowledge of Perl/Python and C programming skills
• Documentation and specification authoring skills
• Interest in open source applications used in web site development

Some level of understanding of issues relating to the following would be beneficial:

• Security
• SQL, databases and query optimization
• Implementation of access control levels and content management features
• Internationalization
• Internet protocols
• Architectures for large-scale database-backed websites
• Design patterns, UML familiarity

Contact Jessica at jrattan [at] this site.