This is your chance to help shape the future of the creative industry around the world. crowd Spring (http://www.crowdspring.com) is building the world’s largest community of creatives, including graphics designers, photographers, writers, and others.

We’re looking for a Senior PHP Developer who is obsessed with best practices, Ghostbusters, web standards, the Hoff, textmate, burritos, and object-oriented software. We’re looking for someone who is tired of building things for other people and wants to be part of building a company, not just software. We’re looking for someone with a tattoo that reads ‘Open Source 4 ever’.

Have you written your own MVC framework (preferably in PHP)? Do you enjoy tweaking httpd.conf while analyzing ab in your spare time? If so, look no further.

What you’ll do:

- Tirelessly dream-up, collaboratively design and develop object-oriented code for our growing web application (already an award-winning site, but there is much yet to be done)

- Contribute to all aspects of a release (specification, design, development, testing)

- Benchmark and optimize application performance

- Help maintain and improve our development environments (LAMP/SVN)

- Push us to – nay, demand that we – embrace new technologies and continually deliver mind-blowing new features to our great community (our users come from nearly every country in the world)

What you’ll need to bring to the table:

- 5+ years OOP experience (PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.)

- 2+ years relational database experience (MySQL, SQL, Oracle)

- Experience with Linux servers and applications (web servers, mail servers, authentication, FTP)

- Plays nicely with others in a small group, warp-speed environment in close quarters

- An entrepreneurial heart

- Previous experience in an agile / scrum environment

- Experience with cloud (EC2) or virtualized (Xen) environments a plus

- If you have experience with XHTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, and JavaScript/AJAX, then we’ll like you

- If you have experience with content management frameworks (e.g. eZ Publish, django, Zend Framework, Ruby on Rails), then we’ll love you

- If you have all of the above, well – then we gotta have you

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