** PLEASE - Looking for local candidates ONLY in the Seattle, WA metro area **

Web Developer (PHP)

This position is responsible for the investigation, development and troubleshooting for the Hiring Client’s website, sales, and customer care systems. This person will work closely with the CRM vendor, sales, marketing, finance, engineering, local market teams and other IT personnel to assess business need, and from these, develop business use cases, functional requirements, functional gap analysis, process flows and technical requirements. This analysis will support the implementation and deployment of this new business functionality through the software development lifecycle. This position requires a highly motivated individual who is comfortable with rapid changes in direction and environment. The successful candidate will be customer oriented, results driven (i.e. solutions oriented) and passionate about delivering innovative quality services to our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop site content and pages for Hiring Client’s external and internal websites
• Work closely with all Hiring Client to deliver improvements to their www site, intranet, and sales systems. This includes working with IT and functional leads on researching solutions, investigating capabilities, developing requirements, use cases and delivering system implementation
• Build and maintain close relationships with internal customers and CRM vendor to ensure efficient development processes are being followed and are on schedule
• Ensure applications are designed to support instrumentation objectives, rapid enhancement objectives and will provide superior user experiences
• Assist with the improvement and practice of a development methodology to consistently enhance and predictably deliver product to customers

Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience developing commercial software in a rapid/agile environment through several complete development cycles from specifications to software delivery following a proper software development lifecycle, also producing required documentation and providing production support
• 3+ years experience implementing mission critical internet based application systems implementing best practices for software code development, re-use, and componentization
• 2+ years experience with relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills
• Religious/passionate orientation and attention to customers
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and challenging work environment
• Strong Knowledge of internet technologies and languages (PHP, JSP, HTML, JS, XML, DHTML, CSS, XSLT, XHTML, Servlets, SOAP)
• Experience in distributed and multi-threaded systems and large website experience with an understanding of scaling issues.
• BA/BS or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Must have strong experience with SOAP and Web Services....