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Job Title:  Web Programmer

Job ID: 08NSFA
Date Posted:
Category: Programmers
Location: S.F. area
Position Type: all
Salary Range: Open
Experience: Proven experience of working as a web programmer or equivalent in an online services
Desired Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar, GPA of 3.0 or better
Description: KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developing new systems for the Online Services Division and the rest of the company
• Managing all key aspects of the Online Services Division
• Maintaining front end websites
• Maintaining backend CMS systems

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Proven experience of working as a web programmer or equivalent in an online services team preferably for a video games publisher
• Excellent people skills
• Good commercial understanding and ability to translate this into efficient actions
• Precise understanding of web programming efficiencies and how it can enhance website publishing for a video games developer/publisher such as SEGA
• Proven experience managing and developing CMS and CRM systems
• Excellent communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar, GPA of 3.0 or better
• High level of skills using PHP, MySQL, administering Linux and Windows-based web servers

Essential Technical Skills:

• Educated to degree level in computing related field
• Advanced PHP 4/5 knowledge/experience – key requirement
• Proven experience of managing Windows and Linux Servers - Microsoft IIS/Apache
• Advanced database design experience including advanced knowledge of MySQL versions 4 and 5
• HTML and XHTML
• CSS
• Very good knowledge of JS including jQuery
• Experience of using PHP frameworks (Zend Framework, Symfony etc)
• Complete project life cycle experience
• Knowledge of web standards and browser compliancy
• Experience of using OOAD
• E-commerce experience
• Report/documentation writing and research experience
• Experience of creating and working with web services

Desirable Technical Skills:

• Design patterns
• UML
• Unit testing and Load testing
• Microsoft Project and Microsoft SQL Server
• XML and XSLT

Aptitudes/Attributes:

• Excellent standard of general education
• Extensive commercial development experience in a similar environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to manage own time
• Must be self motivated
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills
• Able to pro-actively put forward ideas
• Team player with flexibility when required