EquestrianLife.com is a social media site dedicated to equestrians and horse lovers across all disciplines. The site launched in 2008 and was awarded the best new Web site for equestrians that year. The goal of EquestrianLife.com is to bring together horse lovers and to partner with leaders in specific discipline areas to provide users with the breadth and depth of information and tools they need to learn and connect with other horse lovers who share the same passion.

The site's underlying technology is a leading social media platform, integrating cutting edge applications and tools, such as profiles, social Q&A, status updates, photo uploading, groups, comments, blogs, online radio, high definition videos, directories, birthday reminders, notifications, alerts and messaging, ratings, tagging and security settings.

Junior PHP Web Developer / LAMP Environment ( Contract )

• Type: Contract
• Experience: Junior Level Developer
• Location: San Francisco Bay Area
• Date Posted: June 24, 2009

Ready to join a company that is doing cutting edge programming? Want to work with social networking, portable applications, and other cutting edge technology?

We are an innovative social platform technology company looking to grow our team and bring on creative junior developers. As a member of our growing team, you'll be involved some very interesting and interactive projects. This is a great opportunity to learn and get real job experience in a fun environment.

What you'll do:

• Work in a LAMP environment
• Hand code compliant to web standards
• Develop in a multi-platform cross browser environment
• Come up with creative solutions to new and old problems

What you'll need:

• An interest and understanding in social applications
• The ability to work in both front end and back end development
• Solid database experience
• Intermediate to advanced PHP5/OO, MySQL
• HTML / CSS / JavaScript / AJAX
• A minimum 2 years development experience or proven ability
• Experience and understanding of scaling issues
• Ability to work in a fast paced, constantly evolving environment
• Comfortable working as part of a team and on solo projects
• Experience building apps for Facebook or MySpace a plus

To Apply:

Please email your resume to Jobs@EquestrianLife.com along with a brief summary of your experience, and a link to code samples or online examples of your work.