Job Description
Looking for a company committed to interactive? PEAK6 Online, a division of PEAK6 Investments, draws on its considerable financial know-how and technological innovation to create and launch innovative, financially oriented online experiences and tools. With ONN.tv, OptionsHouse.com, and WeSeed.com, PEAK6 Online is responsible for creating content, evolving online brokerage practices, and helping everyday people learn about the stock market.
Voted “Chicago's Best and Brightest Employers to Work For,” four of the last five years, PEAK6 Online offers: competitive salary, performance bonuses, and a great benefits package including: medical, dental, vision, 401K, paid vacation, sickness and disability benefits, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, along with a casual work environment and dress code and the occasional yoga class. PEAK6 currently employs 400 professionals and is rapidly growing in scope, complexity and depth of operation.
PEAK6 Online is looking for a strong PHP Developer to help build and maintain the online businesses and their websites.
Job Requirements:
- 5+ years professional programming experience, including the development of front-end and back-end software for web application
- 3+ years professional programming experience with PHP on a production deployed product
- Experience building n-tier Internet applications in PHP
- Demonstrated experience/knowledge building high-volume and consumer facing database-driven web applications.
- Experience with the following are required: MVC architectures, XML/JSON and RESTful APIs, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax
- Proficiency with cross-browser, cross-platform issues, and web standards
- Experience with PHP internals, writing plugins
- Understanding of application deployment
- Unobtrusive JQuery techniques
- Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases and design
- Linux / UNIX and OS X experience
- Know your way around the command line
- Competent and knowledgeable technical design skills
- Experience developing social network applications
- Experience working with social network data portability protocols like Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Availability, OpenSocial, etc.
- Has felt the need to refactor something before
- Must have excellent problem solving skills and enjoy a good challenge
- Believes in testing their code
Preferred Skills & Attributes:
- Experience with WordPress
- Experience working in Unix environments (Mac OS X, Linux) while also comfortable verifying your work in Windows client
- More senior candidates should have a C++, J2EE or similar background and design / architecture experience
- Full cycle experience including analysis, design, development, documentation, testing, roll out, etc
- Strong individual contribution and good in a team/collaborative environment
- Strong experience with relational databases
- Like to explore new technologies
- Experience with Amazon Web Services and related technologies is a big plus (EC2, EBS, S3, Capistrano, etc.)
- A B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science or Engineering is desirable.
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