Any
$400/month, Negotiable
TBD
Aug 3, 2016
About Us:
www.rivalripper.com is our eBay listing platform. We currently support over 100+ clients and we use the software ourselves to manage our own eBay businesses. We also have a few other projects that do a lot web scraping and data mining.
Requirements:
You will be coding features for an eBay.com listing management platform that communicates with eBay’s API. The core of our platform is already built. We dont use any PHP frameworks. It's all custom and module based. Each module basically has 3 files (a view/template file for the HTML/CSS, a PHP file for interaction with the database, and a JS file for sending and receiving commands via our own API which is just PHP files. You will be assisting our CTO in developing new features. You will also help with other projects that involve web scraping data using Xpath and Curl via PHP.
Required Coding Knowledge:
Jquery (frontend)
AJAX (talk to PHP scripts)
PHP (backend/api)
JSON (feeds)
Additional Experience A Plus (we will train you):
PHP/Mongo Class
Mongo Queries using PHP Arrays
eBay API (we use currently)
Shopify API (we want to expand to)
Web Scraping (we crawl retailers)
Xpath (web scraping patterns)
Xml (used by ebay API)
Communication Methods:
Email, Google Docs, Trello, Slack, and Skype Chat (video not needed). We would most likely handle and discuss things every couple days or so via Slack.
How To Apply:
We just hired a full time developer but are always looking for new talent. If you have Jquery and PHP skills, please fill the form below. We may have work for you in the future. Thanks.
http://goo.gl/forms/9ql8jVG1yI