Chicago, IL. Full time.
Lightswitch is looking for an experienced web developer to join our team to help us build our core technology, new website, public API’s, etc. We are ambitiously building a company to solve a tough problem – making custom video production easy and affordable for every small business in America. We are a startup with real revenue and the same committed investors that built Groupon – this is a great opportunity for you to make a huge impact at an early stage company. We have an energetic and highly motivated team and are looking for more of the same.
This job is located in Chicago, IL. If you’re interested, send a resume along with a link to your Github profile to REDACTED_EMAIL.
Your responsibilities
Be creative in solving technology problems and disciplined in testing and implementing solutions
Support web app and back-end in production
What we’re looking for:
* A minimum of 5 years experience in web application development with PHP
* A minimum of 5 years experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
* MVC framework experience
* Expertise with jQuery and Backbone
* Fluent with SQL
* Unit testing
* Comfortable with the command line
* Experience working with and building RESTful API’s
* Attention to detail
* Someone who is always learning new technologies and how to improve the ones they already use.
* Sense of humor, plays well with others
Even better if you have:
* Video experience
* Active interest in and regular contribution to the development community
* Experience managing Linux, Apache, and other server side services
* Experience with LESS CSS
* Mobile development experience
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