CLOSED: Sr. PHP Developer (Downtown, Boulder, CO)

A fast-paced and growing startup located in downtown Boulder, CO is looking for a Sr. PHP developer to contribute to our flagship product - a ground-breaking internet service which will provide many exciting challenges for a smart and enthusiastic developer.

As a member of the core development team, you will be responsible for designing and developing new features for our core product. Must be a team player and self starter. Experience in a start-up environment is a plus.

This is a back-end developer position.

Requirements:

* Senior/Expert - level knowledge of object-oriented programming with PHP
* Minimum 5 years experience in web development
* 3+ Years experience with PHP and LAMP
* Experience developing distributed applications
* Experience developing applications with large numbers of concurrent users
* Strong team-oriented skills including SCM, Revision Control, Defect tracking, and collaboration tools.
* Strong Linux development experience is preferred
* Comfortable working in a small-team, fast-paced, start-up environment
* Ability to work without a lot of direction
* Ability to gather the information you will need to complete your task and communicate issues promptly
* Ability to deliver on-time, well-tested modules
* Ability to write clean, well commented, modular code
* BS/MS in C.S. or related degree (or equivalent experience)

Additional "nice to have" skills:
AJAX
OpenX
Kohana or other frameworks

This is a full-time employee, on-site position.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs at createksolutions dot com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

ON HOLD: Ruby on Rails Developer(s) (Entry-level-to-Senior) (Boulder, CO)

Recently funded startup in downtown Boulder, CO is looking for smart, highly-motivated developers, hungry for a challenge. Very early stage opportunity with meaningful equity participation. Come help design and build a large scale system, from the ground up.

The ideal candidate will not only be a developer who can get things done and make things work, but should be a bit of a "jack of all trades," ready to pitch in where needed, whether with Sys Admin, integration testing, etc. Experience in a start-up environment is a plus, as is experience "wearing multiple hats" and working with a good breadth of technologies (especially open source).

Required Qualifications:

· Experience with Ruby on Rails

· JavaScript

· MySQL

· Object-oriented design

· Object/Relational Mapping

· Relational database experience

· Strong Linux skills (Ubuntu a plus)

· Experience developing large solutions

· 2+ years software development experience

Strongly Preferred qualifications:

· Contributions to open source and Web 2.0 projects

· Experience with other OO languages in addition to Ruby

· CS Degree or equivalent

Additional "nice to have" Qualifications:

· Experience with Cassandra or other NoSQL tool

The company will be happy to help you relocate to Boulder, Colorado; the greatest place on earth to live, seriously.

This is a full-time, employee, on-site position.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs at createksolutions dot com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

ON HOLD: QA Engineer / lead (SCM or Software Developer in Test skills a plus) (Boulder, CO)

Fast-paced and growing Boulder startup is looking for an experienced software QA engineer to lead testing for a web-based product.

To be successful, you must have an assertive personality as you will initially be the only QA Engineer working with a development team of 7-8 developers.

As the QA team grows, there is potential for this to grow into a leadership role - so leadership skills are a must and leadership experience is a big plus.

In addition to a solid software QA background, the ideal candidate will also bring skills and experience in either the area of Software Configuration Management (SCM) or significant experience writing automated tests, shell scripts, or programming experience. This is a small company and we are looking for someone who can contribute in multiple ways.

Must be a self-starter who can rise to challenges and get things done. Must be able to work under tight deadlines.


Responsibilities will include:

• Review, understand and contribute to product requirements, specifications, and user stories.
• Identify and document detailed test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts.
• Forewarn stakeholders when a project is in jeopardy of meeting deadlines.
• Actively participate in design/code reviews and handoffs.
• Perform manual and automated functional and regression testing.
• Contribute to QA and product documentation.
• Provide testing estimates.
• Uncover and document defects in daily builds of the product software.
• Qualify bug reports from product users.
• Verify bug fixes.

Responsibilities may include (depending on the experience you bring):

• Develop automated functional and regression test suites.
• Write, maintain, and run white-box unit tests.
• Setup and maintain an automated build process.
• Package product releases for deployment.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience in QA and testing methodologies.
• Ability to develop and execute test plans with minimal guidance.
• Experience testing web-based products.
• Experience testing products using multiple web browsers and platforms.
• Experience with QA methods in an agile development environment.
• Understanding of unit tests, system tests, and test-driven development.
• Leadership skills.
• Strong SQL Skills (MySQL a plus)
• Linux Skills

Desired Qualifications:

• PHP, Java, or other object-oriented programming skills.
• Scripting languages
• Shell Scripting
• Experience with Cruise Control, Selenium, or other automated testing/build tools.
• Experience with load testing for applications supporting high numbers of concurrent users.
• Subversion experience
• BS in Computer Science or related degree

This is a full-time, employee, on-site position.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs at createksolutions dot com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)