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Junior Developer Job Ad

Job position: Junior Developer (PHP/MySQL) w/1-3 years Experience
Company: The Edvisors Network
Availability: Immediate
Compensation: Market competitive, commensurate with experience and demonstrated portfolio of excellence
Reports To: CTO

The junior developer position will be partly responsible for over 100 web sites, as well as local office technology such as the VOIP phone system and LAN. Development tasks range from simple text edits to developing entire e-commerce solutions. There may be very occasional light travel, on the order of once every two years or so.

Samples of our sites:

Sample project:

One of our sites, http://www.InternationalScholarships.com, is clearly showing its age, and needs to be redone from top to bottom. If you interview for this position, please come with ideas about how you would make it better, faster, stronger, etc.

Why You Should, If Qualified, Apply for this Job:

  • Because you want to challenge yourself with new projects, new opportunities to learn, new problems to solve.
  • Because the pay's not bad and the benefits are good.
  • Because we roast and brew our own coffee on premises.
  • Because you want to learn new technologies and see the secrets of an Internet marketing company founded pre-boom that's still in business 7 years later and not broke

Compensation

  • Market competitive commensurate with experience and demonstrated portfolio of excellence
  • Options for bonuses and incentives conditional on individual and company-wide performance
  • Free full healthcare coverage
  • Free parking
  • Free high-quality coffee
  • Business casual work environment
  • Really interesting, extremely challenging work - you'll never stare at a wall in boredom again
  • Interesting coworkers

What Makes You Qualified

  • 1 - 3 years experience coding in PHP and MySQL; PHP 4 and MySQL 4 are preferred.
  • Experience with PEAR libraries is a major plus.
  • Top notch abilities to read, write, speak, and listen in American English. British English OK, too.
  • Ability to think with clarity and speed.
  • Extremely strong memory, especially for numbers and variables - you're shown something once and you remember it forever.
  • Eligible to work in the US for any employer with no sponsorship needed, because we can't provide any.
  • Able to pass a background check with no problems (Mass. CORI plus credit check).

How to Apply

  • Please submit a cover letter and resume in good old fashioned ***** plain text *****.
  • Attachments are automatically discarded for security reasons.
  • HTML email will probably get filtered out as junk.
  • Include your personal web site's URL
  • Please include at least TWO code samples you have written in PHP; examples of form data handling would be best.
  • NO OUTSOURCING ADS! We are proud to be an American company hiring and creating jobs IN AMERICA.

Where To Apply:

Email your resume to jobs@edvisors.com
Don't call us, we'll call you.

Thanks for applying.

Christopher S. Penn
CTO, The Edvisors Network