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Company profile
As a Core PHP Developer you will be working for a leading social network company in the center of Amsterdam. This young company has grown to have the largest website in the Netherlands. With 10 million members and over 240 million page views a day, you will be part of a company which uses cutting edge technology and innovation. You have the chance to become a part of world’s best experts of Web 2.0 and Open Source technologies.
Company culture
The culture within the company is informal yet professional. The decision- and deploy circles are very short. Something that you have thought of today, might be online within 6 weeks. You will be encouraged to be creative and have all the freedom to try new ideas. You will receive coaching and courses in areas of your interest. There are also many growth opportunities within the company in the long run. You will be part of an international team of developers from countries like the Netherlands, France, Romania, Ukraine, Spain, Italy, Poland, India, Russia, Germany and Australia. English language will be the only means of communication for all developers.
Job description
The company operates according to a custom Agile development process and works on its own application. The focus is on cool code and applications. PHP Developers spend 90% of their time in IDE. Reports, UML and consultations are not an end but a means. Decision pathways and deploy cycles are very short, so there is inconsiderable momentum. You will be developing codes for the main website and desktop application. The programming languages used are PHP, Python, Ajax and Delphi. The software written by you is used by millions of people each month!
Great yet interesting challenges:
• How do you store half billion photos and videos?
• How do you serve 300 million web pages a day?
• How do you integrate company’s applications with I-phone, Blackberry and Android phones?
• How do you build on an application that runs on 3000 servers?
• Masters degree in IT or any relevant discipline;
• 2 to 5 years development experience creating commercial web applications – NOT PHP websites;
• You have worked on development of software used by large numbers of people;
• Extensive experience with Linux, Web 2.0 technologies, App Servers/LAMP, MySQL (or MS-SQL, Oracle, etc.);
• Up to date knowledge of Design Patterns (like MVC and ORM)
• Experienced with Agile web-development;
• Bonus: Hands-on experience with: LAMP stack, NGINX, Python, MemCached, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Propel, Smarty, Python,or Twisted/Pyrex libraries;
• The opportunity to work as a Developer at an innovative, high-paced web 2.0 product company, located in the center of Amsterdam;
• 6 months contract followed by permanent employment;
• Above market average salary package, with interesting upside possibilities;
• 8 % holiday allowance on top of the base salary;
• 25 working days holidays;
• Pension scheme;
• Assistance with paperwork (work permits, local bank account, social security number etc.);
• Free plain ticket for face to face interview and moving to Amsterdam;
• Up to 4500 euros relocation fee;
• Assistance with finding an accommodation of the initial period;
• 30% tax benefit for everyone recruited from outside of the Netherlands.
Tech Recruitment is an engineering and technical recruitment agency based in Bucharest, but covering a much larger area including the whole area of Romania, committed to matching people with jobs on a permanent or temporary basis. We are focused on deliver senior specialists within Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Dedicated to the IT&C, engineering & construction, technical and executive recruitment industry Tech Recruitment Ltd is one of the region\'s experienced recruitment agencies and recruits for a range of roles ranging from managers, engineers, technical sales, skilled shop floor staff and technical support personnel.
