NOTE: CANDIDATES ONLY, NO RECRUITERS OR AGENCIES PLEASE Hi everyone,
I'm looking for someone to head my development teams on the PHP side, and am running out of available candidates to look at. I'm reaching out to you hoping that some of you are not necessarily actively looking, but are keeping your eyes open for possible opportunities to grow, expand and learn. The official blurb: JetSetter is aggressively building a software development team in New York City. If you are a talented, motivated engineer comfortable across the end-to-end technology stack, we want to talk to you. We’re a PHP shop, but it’s more important to us that you are versatile across languages and technologies. Interest in (and, better yet, experience with) agile methodologies and test driven development is important to us. We’re building something that needs to scale to thousands of requests per second, so it’d be good if you had some experience scaling systems to that level (i.e. caching strategies, thin server architecture). Parts of our system will probably also require experience in Joomla!, Javascript, MongoDB, Project Voldemort, and Amazon’s cloud computing services, so skills in those areas will not go wasted. Our offices are in the flatiron area in midtown Manhattan, just a few blocks from Union Square. Our work environment is casual, fun, and most importantly free of bureaucracy and overhead. In addition to competitive compensation, our benefits package includes medical, dental and prescription drug plans, a 401(K) plan, and more. JetSetter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. My summary: Absolute necessities are PHP5.2+, deep understanding of object methodologies, experience with MVC frameworks, keen awareness of design patterns (and when to use them, as well as when not to), a deep philosophical commitment to the KISS principle, and the crossover ability to not only design and implement simple, beautiful things that scale but lead and mentor teams to accomplish those lofty goals. Equally important is your desire for knowledge and learning, as well as the uncontrollable urge to share that with others. This is a ground-up leadership opportunity, where getting in now will be rewarded as the business grows. We're basically relaunching a business that has already grown to 130+ people and generated $80M in annual revenues after only 18 months of operation, by retailing apparel in the luxury space via curated, tasteful approach. We get to honor the ages-old preference of web developers and yell "Do over!", but this time specifically for very high end, exclusive travel. If you wanted to build your own development organization in a startup that was willing to challenge common notions of how things are supposed to be done, then you and I need to talk. In closing, I was drawn to this opportunity as I can remain technically involved in implementation, while still being involved in an executive role. If you are similarly inclined to straddle that developer/manager fence, then again, you and I need to talk. -- Mitch Pirtle CTO, JetSetter A Gilt Groupe company [email protected] _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Jobs Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
