Publish2 is an online news aggregation platform, designed to empower the world’s journalists to discover, organize, and rank the most important news — to benefit their own reporting, their newsrooms, and all news consumers on the web.

We have an opening for an experienced PHP Developer to work on building out our editorial platform and proprietary advertising model. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is creative, driven by innovation, and wants to be involved in revolutionizing the distribution and monetization of news on the web.

PHPDeveloper

Job responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement modules and api’s for Publish2 applications in PHP using the Kohana and Zend framework
• Write unit tests and coordinate your development with the CTO and the development team
• Write highly scalable code
• Deploy applications
• Perform version control with SVN and participate in release management
• Show technical leadership in a hands-on, non-bureaucratic, team oriented development environment

Required skills

• Strong PHP and framework experience
• Experience in building secure and scalable PHP web applications
• Business or financial systems experience a big plus
• LAMP knowledge
• Experience with JQuery and XML, including parsing, schema, and transformations
• Strong grasp of network protocols, caching, synchronization, pooling, threads, concurrency, distributed computing, transactions, and optimization
• Disciplined approach to software development, using test-driven coding and agile project management
• Strong teamwork skills, practical business sense and a passion for delivering relevant, awesome and innovative products

Other useful experience

• Experience with blogging tools such as WordPress, Movable Type, etc.
• Experience with design and media including print, photos, video and audio.

Publish2 offers a flexible, highly creative work environment, with an experienced team focused on the pursuit of a big vision. We offer a competitive salary, stock options, health insurance, and more.

Please send a resume and bio to jobs [at] publish2 [dot] com.