About the Company:
GenY medium is a rapidly growing, venture-backed full-service digital marketing and technology company. It is in the business of managing perceptions of brands - online. Our team combines the three essential skills to excel in social media marketing:
1. Consumer understanding,
2. Content Marketing and
3. Technology expertise
Within a very short span of time, our young team has served a number of clients and helped create positive conversations around their brands. The good news is that we are growing - and fast! Read more about the company at http://www.genymedium.com/
Role Summary :
- Develops a custom, often complex WordPress-based solutions along with PHP framework-based solutions (e.g. Laravel).
- Aids account managers, analytics leads and others in requirements gathering, web project planning, and general technical questions.
- Provides leadership in finding/developing new technologies and methods to advance the company's web offerings.
- Aids other developers with system design and implementation. Performs server maintenance and monitoring.
- Supports current client websites by providing technical support.
Skill Set :
- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.
- Strong understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of WordPress
- Knowledge of PHP frameworks (CodeIgniter, Symfony, Yii, Zend, etc) a plus. Laravel strongly desired.
- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML) a plus.
- Knowledge of change control systems, specifically Git, a plus.
Key Responsibilities :
- Contributing to the scope of building conversations with the development team, project managers, designers, and other developers.
- Integrating sliced PSD files (usually already converted to HTML/CSS) into either WordPress or some other proven open source system (note: WordPress is our primary CMS platform); all of our builds are responsive
- Developing custom web applications that drive business processes
- Setting up e-commerce applications
- Monitoring health and uptime of cloud servers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Azure) (general server admin in a managed services environment; no in-depth configuration required)
- Collaborating with design, strategy and sales teams to find solutions for client website projects
- Contributing to support of current client websites
- Participating in regular company-wide and team meetings
- Participating in on-site and off-site client meetings
- Growing personal and team member expertise through training, exploring and prospecting
Key Responsible Areas :
- Web Project Planning (30%)
- Strategy/New Technologies/New Products (10%)
- Web Development and Implementation (40%)
- Server Management/Maintenance (5%)
- Supporting Internal Growth of Other Developers (10%)
- Technical Support (5%)
Eligibility :
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or comparable experience in web development.
- Substantial experience working with similar technologies and environment.
- Knowledge of PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS, intermediate JavaScript, DNS, and Linux.
- Experienced in developing for WordPress; Laravel development experience preferred.
- Ability to breakdown client problems and develop a software solution from system design to implementation.
- Ability to communicate well verbally and in writing with good time management skills.
