We are looking for a smart and experienced PHP developer to contribute greatly to the build and future growth of our innovative web application. Talent and personality are important to us, so we are looking for someone who gets excited about building great and useful consumer web applications. The ideal person takes initiative at devising solutions as (s)he will have a major impact on the product’s overall back end architecture.

What we offer:

• Work on an interesting project that solves a real world problem
• As one of the first employees you will have a major impact on the product’s direction
• Work with a team of driven founders and advisors from various areas of expertise
• Everyone on the team works (mostly) from home, and sets their own schedule, so there is a great flexibility – (we prefer someone local to Prague, Czech Republic to meet up 2 days/week to collaborate, but for the right person we can work around this)
• We are looking for someone for a long term cooperation

Requirements:

• Can-do attitude and amazing work ethic, responsibility, enthusiasm and technical awesome-ness
• Good English communication skills and sweet internet connection are a must
• Practical experience in software development – ideally a consumer (web) product
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• PHP 5 & OOP — with experience in CakePHP and MVC, Smarty templates, MySQL, Ajax handling, XHTML, Javascript libraries (Prototype)
• Competence with the LAMP stack and Linux shell
• Code optimization, debugging (xdebug) and profiling experience is a great way to show your technical skills
• Points for showing interest/collaboration on Open Source projects
• Points for knowledge of Facebook & Twitter APIs
• Points for sys admin skills

Although we are building a web app for sport enthusiasts, you are not required to be a sporter :) So, to apply for this position, please describe your past experience and tell us why you would be a suitable person in more details at miro@sportmeets.com. We’ll be excited to speak to you while we appreciate applications specific to this position rather than generic CV emails.