The Group:
We're looking to add an Application Developer to our team to continue to grow and evolve Ning's flagship service. You'd be joining a small, flat organization populated with people who are passionate about creating beautiful software used by millions of people in their daily lives. We're looking for a PHP & AJAX developer who is happiest using Agile development, SCRUM, extreme programming, or some interesting hybrid while working on semi-autonomous projects in a flat organization.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in designing new features (that will be used by millions of people), and generating ideas for updates and development, often in 2-4 week cycle times.
• Ability to work with other teams - such as design and product management - but also work independently; having ownership of projects concerning features for networks on Ning.
• Work on both front-end features - like photo sharing, video sharing, events, discussions, and blogs - as well as continuously optimizing the back-end infrastructure to increase performance at rapidly increasing levels of scale.

Requirements

• BS/MS in CS or equivalent.
• Experience with PHP, AJAX, and HTML/CSS.
• Java or C++ or object oriented design experience.
• Experience programming scalable web applications.
• Knowledge of web services, and agile development methodologies desired.
• Know your way around Flash.
• Curiosity. You've created a social network on Ning. You dive into a bit more detail and are struck by the Ning Content Store and why we chose that architecture. You have lots of technical questions for us.

I'll be chatting with Marcus on the Pro:PHP Podcast this Friday, Feb. 24 at 1pm ET. Tune into the live webcast and ask questions!

As he mentioned, you can sign up for the free live webcast here or, if you can't be there, the entire recording will be posted on the Pro::PHP Podcast site (and can be pulled down by any aggregator subscribed to the XML feed).]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:02:02 -0600