FIRST: LOCAL DEVS ONLY! NO RECRUITERS! (We may be willing to work remotely with US-BASED devs in certain, extreme circumstances. We’re willing to relocate as well.)

Synapse Studios is a custom web development shop in downtown Tempe, Arizona that builds great software for startups, enterprise clients, medium-sized businesses, and government/academic clients. We’re looking for a Senior Developer to help continue building out our team, who knows software architecture, PHP like the back of their hand, MVC frameworks, Git, and likes working on solving challenging problems that change daily.

Our office is a brightly colored, fluorescent- and cubicle-free space on Mill Avenue in Downtown Tempe. We’re a small, dedicated group that gets along great and we’re looking for hard working, passionate people who want to work with a great team.

Here’s what we need:

We need developers who can step in and help guide the growth we’re expecting in the near-term. We’re looking for someone that knows how to write clean and efficient PHP 5 object oriented code. Here is a list of skills we are looking for:

• PHP 5 – object oriented experience
• SQL knowledge (NoSQL a plus)
• Extensive JavaScript and CSS knowledge
• Current knowledge on the latest HTML, CSS and JavaScript standards as well as how they interact across multiple browsers and versions
• Regular expressions (at least able to understand them even if they give you horrible, horrible nightmares)
• Using, writing, and documenting APIs, REST, SOAP, etc.
• Git or other version control systems
• Active use of Github
• MVC experience (via frameworks such as Kohana, CodeIgniter, Zend, Cake, or Symfony, for example)
• LAMP stack administration skills (nice, not crucial)
• AJAX by way of jQuery, YUI or any other popular libraries
• Knowledge of design patterns
• Experience with JS or CSS frameworks (backbone.js, Sass, Compass)
• Worker processes (AMQP, RabbitMQ, Gearman)
• Experience with other languages (C, Perl, Java, Python, Ruby)

We need someone on-site in Tempe, Arizona, but we’re open to helping people relocate. (We also may consider remote, US-based developers on a case-by-case basis.)

We’re a younger group of motivated web developers and our company is growing rapidly. We keep things fun and interesting, have great office space in the downtown district, and do our best to give back to our community.

How to apply:

As a means of possibly insulating us from the deluge of recruiters/outsourcing companies who completely ignore the fact that THIS POSITION IS FOR LOCAL OR WILLING-TO-BE-LOCAL DEVELOPERS ONLY, follow this link and read the application instructions at the bottom of that listing. They’re super simple. (This strategy might not stop everyone, but I’m hoping it makes a dent at least…)

• Location: Tempe, AZ
• Compensation: Very competitive, with benefits
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.