Senior WordPress/PHP Developer

Lift (www.liftux.com) is a user experience design company with high-profile clients in New York, San Francisco, and throughout the United States. As a member of the Lift team, you will be involved in the development of large, high-visibility projects for amazing clients, from television networks that you watch every day to Fortune 500 companies. Oh, and did we mention you get to work from the comfort of your own home?

The Job

Our team is growing by leaps and bounds. You would be responsible for the back-end development of enterprise-level websites and web applications, as well as developing live interactive experiences for television. We also run a WordPress theme shop called UpThemes. You’d get to work on some cool themes and plugins that we release to our growing customer base.

Responsibilities

• Build enterprise-grade WordPress solutions for clients
• Develop requirements & planning documentation
• Collaborate with clients and design team to construct amazing user experiences
• Set up, manage, & configure hosting environments
• Maintain well-documented, reusable, and transferrable code
• Maintain working knowledge of new development software, trends, and practices related to your responsibilities

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of WordPress, PHP, & MySQL
• Expert knowledge of Javascript and all associated buzzwords (jQuery, AJAX, etc.)
• Expert knowledge of Linux, Unix, & Apache
• Expert knowledge of version control (GIT)
• Functional knowledge of NGINX
• Strong oral & written communication skills with both teams & clients
• Core contributions to an open-source project

Bonuses

• Experience with the Brightcove API
• Experience with the JSKit Echo API
• Experience with common social APIs
• Agency experience
• HTML5 experience
• Bow-hunting skills

Please send us your resume and portfolio or links to examples of your work using the form below. Please share your role on each project. If necessary, please include code samples and open source contributions.

Perks

Your choice of a Macbook Pro, Air, or iMac, the opportunity to work from home, travel opportunities to New York and San Francisco.

Perks: Your choice of a Macbook Pro, Air, or iMac, the opportunity to work from home, travel opportunities to New York and San Francisco.