As we continue to grow Zoopy, we’re looking to welcome another senior developer to the team.

If you can tick all the boxes below, please give us a shout. If you make the shortlist, you’ll need to be available for a personal interview at Zoopy HQ in Cape Town in the very near future.

Here’s who we’re looking for:

Senior Developer

Working together with Zoopy’s Lead Developer, you’ll be responsible for:

  • Developing innovative, standards-based, database-driven, scalable code
  • Maintaining existing codebase and extending current functionality
  • Deployment and general health of codebase
  • Researching, evaluating and implementing new technologies to support codebase
  • Turning ideas into solutions and solutions into super-tight-deadline actions
  • Upholding Zoopy’s culture of innovation and can-do spirit

Here’s what you need to bring with you:

  • A professional level of verbal and written communication and presentation skills
  • 5+ years of relevant development experience
  • Substantial LAMP experience, with MVC an enormous advantage
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to work on projects with minimal supervision but lots of team work

Technically-speaking, you need to be able to demonstrate proficiency in working with:

  • Linux, Apache, MySQL and object-orientated PHP
  • Javascript frameworks (Prototype, JQuery etc)
  • XML, JSON, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC and other related technologies

Please send your application to info@zoopy.com as soon as possible. We’re looking to fill this position by the end of August 2009, so we’re going to begin shortlisting quickly and then move to final interview stages.