Job Purpose: Develops distributed web services and websites by designing, creating, and integrating software solutions.
Job Duties:
Manifests the ability to take an idea or a rough prototype and turn it into a supportable, scalable software platform.
Creates code which is fully documented, easy to debug, and easily understandable by a junior level programmer.
Writes code which follows good object-oriented design by avoiding the use of singletons and which can be tested via dependency injection.
Demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
Utilizes test-driven and agile development practices to produce rapid and efficient code in order to create a minimum viable product as early as possible.
Understands normalized database designs along with efficient data queries, index optimization and data caching methodologies.
Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
Provides measurable management updates by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results and unforeseen complications as needed.
Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
Skills/Qualifications: Analyzing Information , General Programming Skills, Software Design, Software Debugging, Software Documentation, Software Testing, Problem Solving, Teamwork, Software Development Fundamentals, Software Development Process, Software Requirements
Must Be Skilled With The Following Technologies:
PHP 5.x (PSR-2 programming style)
MySQL 5.x (SQL statements, data normalization, index design)
Apache 2.x (mod_rewrite, mod_deflate)
Linux fundamentals (SSH/cron)
HMVC/MVC (OOP) patterns
Javascript/JQuery/JSON AJAX client-server
XML/HTML5/CSS markup
APC/Memcache
Subversion/Git source control
Amazon EC2/RDS experience a plus
How To Apply: Please carefully review the job description above. If you think you satisfy the requirements, please reply with 3 different days/times you are available for this screening interview; please remember the US is roughly 12-hours behind, so times at the beginning and end of your work day are probably most convenient for everyone. You should also include an up-to-date CV and a short statement about why you think your experience is a great match for this position.
If you are not looking for long-term full-time employment, unfortunately we are unable to extend this opportunity to you. Also note, this is not a remote working or work-from-home position; you are required to work from our offices in the Saddiq Trade Center building.
If you are picked, we will confirm a date and time for a "screening" interview with you, to be conducted via Skype chat, to determine if we should proceed with a formal, in-person interview with Senior Development staff at our offices located in the Saddiq Trade Center (Lahore).
Who We Are: Lead Wrench is a successful, 3-year-old US-based web services company looking to hire full-time, permanent web services engineers to work at our 13-year-old, off-shore software development partner, MakesBridge Technology Ltd., in Lahore.
