NYCPHP Meetup

[Beau Gould]

Deepen, 

Were you interested in my candidate?  He's quite worthy. 

Thank you, 
Beau J. Gould 

Open Source Staffing 
www.open-source-staffing.com  
beau at open-source-staffing.com 

http://www.linkedin.com/in/opensourcestaffing 




-----Original Message-----
From: jobs-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:jobs-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of Deepen Shah
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 1:12 PM
To: jobs at lists.nyphp.org
Subject: [nycphp-jobs] Award winning venture backed startup seeks Sr.
PHPDeveloper





About Buzzd:
We are an award winning venture backed technology company based in TriBeCa,
New York that is experiencing rapid growth. buzzd (http://buzzd.com/) is a
location-sensitive entertainment listings service with branded editorial and
real-time user generated content on the mobile device."Your city, in
real-time," buzzd allows consumers to know what's happening at any venue
right now, rate events, and connect with friends and people in the area.  We
currently have partnerships with Citysearch, Flavorpill, Timeout New York,
Helio, and other carriers / content partners!


About You:
You will be our lead developer. Not only will you have great development
skills but you are someone who is a strategic thinker and can make technical
decisions. Amongst other things you will collaborate with operations to
steadily improve the scalability of the current site, while helping develop
some really cool new tools and application features. Your work will be
critical to meeting our growth and profitability targets and ensuring that
our users experience a cool and consistently fast service.


Key Requirements:
. Experience working with LAMP systems 
. Expert knowledge of PHP5
. A strong understanding of HTML and coding for cross platform/browser
compatibility
. Minimum of 3 years of strong Object Oriented design and programming
experience
. Knowledge of basic Linux systems administration skills
. Entrepreneurial excitement, a positive attitude and hunger to get things
done


Bonus Skills:
. Experience with front-end development skills (AJAX) / Javascript / DHTML,
CSS, XML
. Experience working with content management systems
. Familiarity working with the Symfony PHP framework
. Familiarity working with Ruby on Rails
. Experience with Memcached, APC, Zend Optimizer or other caching engines


Compensation:
Competitive salary and stock option participation


Benefits & Perks:
. Fun, young and cool office in a great location
. Medical insurance
. A sharp "best of the best" team to work with


We are interested in filling this position quickly. Please provide a resume
along with URLs for sites you have worked on in an email with "PHP
Developer" in the subject line. Looking forward to your responses.
Buzzd
deepen shah : CTO
deep at buzzd.com
direct 973.941.5714