abbywinters.com is one of the largest and most ethical, highly rated, well designed, and successful erotic websites in the world today. abbywinters.com is the WINNER of the XBIZ 2012 Award for Best Adult Site of the Year!
We’re seeking a PHP developer with a passion for technology who wants to:
- Work with a cutting edge, Agile, web-based, industry leader
- Be part of an experienced, small, dedicated team
- Deliver game-changing experiences
Location:
- Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- You MUST have the right to work in the Netherlands to apply for this role.
Motivated by principles of social responsibility, we deliver provocative media by embracing imagination, creativity and emerging technologies. Our models, customers and business partners are inspired by our fervid passion.
Our experienced staff use state-of-the-art content production facilities to produce 10 shoots a week from concept to finished art, utilising the most advanced digital capture, post production and delivery systems in the world.
You will be working directly with our Web Dev Manager, Lead developer and colleagues in the web dev team. We need each individual to contribute for us to continue as a pioneer in our industry.
Your time will be spent:
- Implementing development projects
- Leading informal mentoring during day-to-day work
- Contribute to design of development projects
- Track, reduce, and prevent technical debt in Web Development projects
We are; you should be:
- Passionate about technology, especially web technologies.
- Either with a lot of experience in Agile development, or a passion to learn more
- Always looking to deliver that game changing experience, be it something you create yourself, or within a team of people.
- A dedicated professional
- Looking to continue developing your career and take advantage of our training opportunities
- Highly motivated
- Efficient
- Thrive in an environment where the emphasis is on learning, challenge, and growth
- Love working with great managers and management practices
- Be able to work to fast paced deadlines
- Have an excellent eye for what makes a website sexy
- Comfortable working with adult media
Technical competencies – Required
- High level of skill with PHP 5
- High level of skill with Object Oriented Programming
- High level of skill with HTML/CSS
- High level of skill with JavaScript
- High level of skill with Internet Applications
- Moderate level of skill with Unit Testing and Test Driven Design
- Moderate level of skill with MySQL
- Moderate level of skill with Windows XP operating system
- Experience with the GNU/Linux operating system
- Competent with Revision Control systems (Subversion)
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Zend Certified Engineer, or equivalent experience
- At least 5 years experience in Web Application Development
Technical competencies – Desired
- Moderate level of skill with the Apache HTTP server
- Good understanding of the Model-View-Controller pattern
- Good understanding of the ActiveRecord Object-Relational-Mapping pattern
- Familiarity with Agile software development practices (Scrum)
- E-commerce
- Agile development experience
You will:
- Contribute to our growth over the coming years
- Love working in central Amsterdam!
- Doing a variety of thinking/doing, planning/creating
- Happy working both within a team and autonomously
- Don’t break out in a sweat when working to deadlines
- Commercially savvy with a “Can do” attitude
You will be a key member of our team, consisting of leaders in their fields from Production, IT, Web Development and Post Production. Your work environment will be productive and professional, while still being laid back and relaxed and friendly!
This is a unique opportunity to work with a socially responsible, ethical, growing and dynamic business in the adult industry. Our flagship subscription-based website is extremely successful but still has massive potential for growth.
We are an employer of choice (Ask us for our proof!).
Special employment conditions:
- We regret that we will only be able to contact applicants who make our short-list.
- Right-to-work in the Netherlands is required for this role
- Must speak and write English fluently
Before applying, read our application guidelines, tips and requirements at http://careers.abbywinters.com. When we contact you, we expect you to have read this information.
To apply for this role, email jobs@abbywinters.com
