Web Engineer

Rooty Hollow LLC

2-3 PHP years development Experience

Rooty Hollow is seeking a skilled, self-motivated, innovative developer to work on projects of all sizes and complexity, for clients spanning the United States.  We have clients in New York and Los Angeles and everywhere in between, of international renown to the pride of the neighborhood.

Rooty Hollow is a well established start-up, with a reputation for Drupal and CiviCRM deployments. Our company is an interwoven team where all employees must be able, and willing, to wear many hats. However, this position will be primary focused on software engineering (ie writing code and testing yours and other team members wrk). In addition to programming skills, listed below, you will need to posses good communication and teamwork skills. Your responsibilities may include gently aiding a client to comprehend why a Word document cannot be instantly converted to a web page as equally as it may be to model a high performance, mission critical business solution. You will be expected to work with project managers to juggle multiple deadlines.

Currently we work almost exclusively in PHP for scripting and the usual array of UI languages (CSS, javascript, etc...), though we will always be open to other languages down the road.

Please submit you resume (including Curriculum Vitae) on our application form

Skills/Languages required:
PHP
Object Oriented Programming
javascript, specifically jQuery
SQL scripting (mostly MYSQL but may use others)
CSS
Smarty Templates
Basic Unix (ie use terminal, understand basics of Apache, file systems, etc...)

Bonus points:
Mobile App devo (Objective C for iphone and Java for Android)
RoR
Shell scripting
Flash/Flex
Sys Admin skills (keep up internal server)
Navigate Photoshop files
A Mac User (we're a Mac shop, computer provided)  

Logistics:
Strong preference for Ohio residents, even stronger for Columbus, OH
US residents only (must be eligible for employment in the US)
Available on Skype (we will provide you with account and an incoming #)
Willing to travel to conferences (by Plane and car)
Available for meetings 8am-5pm (in your time zone)
Work from home through 2010 then office/home starting early 2011, for Columbus residents

Benefits:
Health and Eye Care (health currently has a $1,000 annual deductible). 
Generous paid time off including vacation, sick days, and holidays.
Salary commensurate with experience.
Option to attend industry conferences and related events