Write some Software

PHP Developers wanted to join awesome team of smart people in growing start up Vision Direct LLC is a software vendor focusing on delivering high quality digital marketing tools for small to medium sized businesses. Our customers are crying out for more and more tools. We need more smart people to help us do it. And that's where you come in. Skills you absolutely must have - - Solid development skills in PHP. We're not just looking for people that can follow tutorials and piece things together. We want people that can actually code. The first question I'm going to ask you in the interview is to write me a function that reverses a string without using a standard library function to reverse it. If your solution to this is to Google "PHP string reverse" and tell me about strrev, this job isn't for you. - Some basic sys admin skills. We don't expect you to know the ins and outs of every single technology involved but you mustn't freak out the moment you have to do something that isn't code. - You need to have great communication skills. Don't worry, we're not talking about having perfect English (nearly our entire dev team have English as a second language) but you will need to communicate with lots of different people in order to get the answers you need. If you can't explain yourself and understand what others tell you, please don't apply. - Time keeping - If you tell us that you can meet a deadline, we expect you to meet that deadline. Other skills it'd be nice if you have but we'll train you if you don't - Still with us? Fantastic, let me take a moment to explain what we offer in return - - A team full of smart people to work with and learn from. - Interesting projects that will challenge your skills, not endlessly implementing the same CMS CRUD over and over. - Freedom to get on with the job. We're not some giant company with dozens of people between you and a result. - Reasonable deadlines agreed based on what is possible not set by someone from marketing who thought today would be a good day to flog the troops until dawn. - A well organised team and code base. We have our share of chaos but we've invested a lot of time and money into getting this right. We score 12 out of 12 on the Joel Test. Sounds like what you're looking for? Great. Send us details of what you can and can't do (be honest, it's important) as well as a few details about who you are as a person and we'll be in touch. Final note: The first question asks why you're applying for this job. Don't answer it just copy and paste this line into the answer box - "I'm not an idiot, I read the job description!" This particular job is for an API heavy platform. It will be pulling data and integrations with multiple differentness other companies into one central place. I look forward to your applications.