Senior PHP Developer (Telecommute)

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WHO ARE WE:

LeadCloak is one of the fast growing IP bot filtering technology startups. To support our rapid growth we are expanding our team.

We are looking for Senior PHP Developer for a Telecommute position offering excellent compensation.

Below are more details for this position.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Assist in the development of high performance, highly scalable web applications
- Be involved in all aspects of development - playing a critical role in design, planning, development and deployment
- Use technical knowledge and creative thinking to provide the most innovative solutions
- Be self-motivated to meet aggressive deadlines in a rapid application development environment

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:

- Expert in at least PHP, MySQL, Javascript/jQuery
- Extensive knowledge of LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) based development
- Experience working with Web Services (e.g. REST, SOAP) in a highly scalable, highly available environment
- Will code, debug, and unit test systems per requirements and technical design
- Strong focus and work ethics
- Ability to communicate in the English language via phone/email.
- Excellent organization and time-management abilities

PLUS:

- Experience with HTML5/CSS3
- Advanced web technology experience (Gearman, Varnish, Memcache, Nginx, lighttpd)

HOW TO APPLY

- Please note that only applications written in English shall be processed.
- Please mention your current geographic location.
- Applications from developers residing in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India will not be honored.
- Please send your answers to the pre-interview questions below, Resume, cover letter and any other files in one ZIP file to ---------- QUESTIONS:

Please send answers to the following questions along with your application:

1. How would you rate in terms of regular expressions: beginner, intermediate or advanced?

2. Do you have any experience working with the following? Please explain in detail the application developed and implementation.

- E-commerce gateways (which ones?)
- Memcache
- Gearman
- Nginx, or lighttpd
- Messaging Queue such as RabbitMQ, Gearman etc.

3. What programming languages have you had experience working with besides PHP? Have you developed any applications where you share data between two languages such as PHP and Python simultaneously or written an application that runs by intercommunicating between two languages?

4. What major issues have you faced while working with GD library?

5. What type of application(s) have you developed using ImageMagick? What are the functionalities have you implemented or know how to implement?

6. What is the difference between include_once() and include(); and, which one would you use for a high traffic site? Is require_once() better than require() or vice-versa?

7. Have you ever written a crawler that uses Regular Expressions to build web page extractors?

8. Is it possible to do multithreading with PHP CLI? How?

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So, if you are a Senior LAMP Developer / Architect, please apply today!

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to ask.

Please, NO COMPANIES. We are hiring someone directly who must be ready to start a full-time career OR a part-time career eventually leading to full-time with us. We do not wish to work on a contract / hourly basis.