PHP / Drupal / Web Developer
Posted: July 15, 2010
Astonish Designs is a close-knit team of people who love solving business problems with web solutions. We love creating, and we love results. We specialize in the areas of custom web application development, business automation, internet marketing and new media strategies and we are looking for an energetic web developer with strong interpersonal skills to join our growing team.
Mission: What outcomes will you produce after 12 months at Astonish?
Clients rave about what you have accomplished for them over the past year. You have blown them away with your problem solving genius and exceptionally friendly service. You have created resounding success stories by building superlative solutions to challenging business problems using cutting edge web technologies and frameworks. With a voracious appetite to learn, you have adopted new frameworks such as Drupal, Ubercart, jQuery and Magento. You have become an integral member of our cohesive team and have built strong connections with team members and clients.
Outcomes
- Architect, develop and deploy websites/applications for our clients that run reliably/securely, are built elegantly and are easily extendible.
- Research and adopt best-of-breed CMS, e-commerce and application development frameworks to streamline development (e.g. Drupal, jQuery, CiviCRM, Ubercart, etc).
- Achieve at least 3 positive mentions from clients within 90 days of being hired by communicating proactively and responsively and by demonstrating genuine concern for client success and satisfaction.
- Assist in acquiring new clients by developing accurate project estimates and schedules for proposals and uncovering additional needs in active accounts.
Competencies
- Technical mastery. Proficient in PHP, MySQL, W3C valid XHTML/CSS and JavaScript with at least 2-3 years of experience. Drupal proficiency and server administration experience is a big plus.
- Follow-through on commitments. Lives up to verbal and written agreements, regardless of personal cost.
- Intelligence. Learns quickly. Demonstrates ability to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb new information.
- Proactivity. Acts without being told what to do. Brings new ideas to the company.
- Efficiency. Able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort.
- Enthusiasm. Exhibits passion and excitement over work. Has a can-do attitude.
- High standards. Expects personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.
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Company benefits include: group health plan, paid vacation/sick leave/holidays, flextime and a casual work environment.
Email your resume including a cover letter to careers[at]astonishdesigns[dot]com describing your alignment with the job mission listed above along with your salary requirements. Please include samples of your work.
