(Charlotte, NC)

Do you have a passion for open-source technology? Are you a whiz at PHP and MySQL? Red Ventures, an online marketing company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, offers an exciting, high-energy work environment. As a rapid application development company, we minimize over-engineering and empower you to make decisions and manage tasks.
 
Work Environment:
Red Ventures has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Charlotte by the Charlotte Business Journal and has spent the last 2 years in the Top 25 of the Inc 500. The North Carolina Technology Association awarded Red Ventures with the Fastest Growing Technology Company in the state - what a great place to take your web development career to the next level. Our employees enjoy oversized, hexagonal work spaces. You’ll be equipped with a desktop Linux as well as a laptop Windows development environment, and receive as many 19” and 24” monitors as you need. Dress is casual - jeans and t-shirts are just fine. Free weekly lunch-and-learn sessions provide opportunities for ongoing training.
 
Perks include an exceptional benefits package, 70% paid gym membership, exclusive product and service discounts, and discounts at local restaurants and businesses. You’ll also enjoy frequent team reward activities ranging from go-karting to happy hours to four-day excursions to Cancun, Mexico. Are you getting all this from your current employer? 
 
Typical daily activities:
• Work along other senior developers to provide PHP programming and functionality for a wide variety of consumer related websites, intranets, extranets, and web-based applications
• Be challenged on a daily basis to solve problems in new and creative ways
• Design, evaluate, update, and maintain object oriented applications in PHP
• Share your opinions and insights with business leaders on a daily basis in order to affect rapid decision cycles and effective solutions to business requirements
• Translate vague business requirements into tangible and accurate technical requirements as well as anticipate future requirements within the design of new systems

What we look for in you:
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Sciences or similar field
• 5+ years of solid PHP and MySQL development
• The willingness to learn from a team of world-class developers
• Strong working knowledge of HTML, DHTML/CSS and Javascript
• The ability to translate business requirements into system design
• Successful track record of working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment
• Exceptional debugging skills and the ability to easily and quickly read and modify existing code
• Sense of humor!

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