Job Title: Web Developer

Location: Santa Monica / Los Angeles

Opportunity: This is a great opportunity for someone with true entrepreneurial spirit to join a small, high caliber team that has helped create successful startups and hails from strong academic/professional backgrounds

Direct Qualifications:

·         2-5  years of current web development experience; Strong front-end web development experience building applications using the LAMP stack and AJAX / Flash

·         Solid working knowledge of server-side technologies such as PHP (knowing different extensions and PEAR packages), MySQL (designing schemas & optimizing queries), Apache (using directives found in .htaccess), & Linux (writing bash scripts, doing basic sysadmin, using common tools)

·         Significant experience developing in a well-known and popular MVC framework such as Zend, Symfony, CakePHP, etc. and a thorough understanding of  the paradigm with the ability to work through the entire stack from data tier to presentation layer

·         Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Flash, AJAX/JS libraries (JQuery, Prototype, YUI, etc.), Photoshop (or another graphical design tool)

·         Familiarity working with large third-party codebases and APIs; Direct experience with Magento is a huge plus

·         Experience with popular web platform APIs such as Google's Maps, Facebook's Graph, PayPal's Website Payment Pro, Yelp's search, etc. is a serious plus

·         Understanding and implementing best practices like writing clean and well-organized code, following good naming conventions, building unit tests, documenting well, using design patterns when necessary, etc.

·         Ability to make decent business and UI decisions about features & functionality

·         The right attitude about pitching in where needed, even if it means doing stringing together a LAN or figuring out a slow server script or even building IKEA stuff

·         Strong passion for the consumer Internet space and current on the industry

·         Willingness to learn new technology and an enthusiasm to pick up new skills outside of the office to flush out the collective knowledge-base

·         Passionate about working in a startup environment; Must be highly self-motivated, independent and yet also be a team player and contributor; Must also be willing to put in the hours to get things done on very aggressive deadlines

·         Formal degree or schooling in Computer Science or Engineering is required

·         Candidates with a degree from a top-tier school are also highly welcomed and encouraged (Read: Please apply if you're smart, talented, hard-working and ambitious even if you didn't make the right choices in high school.)

·         And most importantly.....the ability to work hard along with rest of team and also have fun

If interested, please contact: [address removed]  (doh –at- 310labs –dot- com)