1. About the company: 1. Name: High Gear Media 2. Website: not very surprising, http://www.highgearmedia.com/ 3. Location: Silicon Valley, California, USA + Yehud, Israel 4. Elevator pitch: We are a young start-up building a next-generation network of websites targeting car-buying audiences by vehicle and lifestyle. 5. Company size: 20 6. Number of branches: 2 (US, Israel) 7. Number of developers: 4 in Israel + 4 in US 8. Product stage: live with income 9. Jobs page: http://www.highgearmedia.com/jobs/ 2. About the position 1. Required experience: skilled and experienced software developer, at least 4 years of experience with relevant technologies, front-end oriented. 2. Required programming languages: PHP, JavaScript 3. Frameworks, infrastructures and technologies: Linux, Apache, MySql, ZendFramework (or other MVC framework), jQuery, xHTML, CSS 4. Development tools: Netbeans/PDT Eclipse, SVN, SimpleTest, Jira, firebug 5. Are leadership skills required: yes, mostly in the aspect of working independently on a project. 3. A little about the development environment: 1. Languages in use: PHP, JavaScript, JAVA, bash scripts 2. Do we use open source: yes, including our servers (Linux, Apache, MySql) IDE (Netbeans / Eclipse), version management (SVN), testing (simple-test), frameworks (zend framework, jQuery) and other dev tools (firefox, fire-bug) 3. Do we contribute to open source: we value the open-source movement and will contribute as soon as we have the chance 4. The next development challenge: building scalable, efficient and generic web applications which are standards compliant and make use of the latest web technologies. 5. How do we test: unit tests and automatic web tests + focused testing effort by everyone before version updates 6. The leading IDE in the company: most developers use Netbeans 7. Work environment: 2 people in a room 8. Monitors in use: 19" LCDs, Currently 1 per developer 9. OS in use: Win XP, Ubuntu 4. Tags: php, web-developer, auto-industry 5. Short description for tweeter: HighGearMedia is hiring a skilled developer for building rich sites and web applications- php, js, xHtml CVs should be mailed to gilad[at]highgearmedia[dot]com |