Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Beatport - PHP Application Developer

Beatport is the recognized leader of electronic music downloads by DJs and fans alike delivering content in premium-encoded formats that match the professional performance quality standards of the world's leading sound systems. Beatport.com allows users to access the world of club music through secure, legal, hi-speed, high quality downloads in MP3, MP4 and WAV formats on a pay per download basis from an impressive library of the world's leading independent labels. Our growing company seeks enthusiastic, talented people to add to our team.

As an Application Developer at Beatport you will work on a 5 to 7 member, cross-functional Agile Scrum team (APP, UI, QA, IT, and of course APP specialties) building solutions to address business and technology needs. You will apply your knowledge and expertise of software design and architecture in a LAMP environment on a daily basis. Developers are encouraged to work with teammates to solve complex problems outside of their specialization where appropriate.

You will also take part in planning sessions at the beginning of each 2 week sprint cycle where you will be responsible for planning, tasking, and estimating user stories. At the end of each iteration you will be involved with release demos where your team shares with the company work completed within the iteration. We have a highly collaborative environment where the team works together with their Product Expert and Stakeholders to define product solutions. Everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our products and share the success of releasing valuable features on a regular basis.

To land this job you'll need to have:

5+ years relevant experience in Software Development
Proven experience in software design, architecture, and services solutions
A solid understanding of PHP and Open Source solutions
Process experience with security, environment management, and capacity planning
Proven Object Oriented experience
Understanding of Test Driven Development
Confidence with Linux, Python, Javascript
Familiarity with software release procedures and requirements
Knowledge of a variety of general web technologies (HTML, AJAX, XML, JSON, etc.)
A proven ability to work with others to efficiently tackle teamwork-oriented tasks

We seek folks who are personable, friendly and positive thinking. If you fit this bill, send your resume our way. Please drop us a brief line with a cover letter sharing your salary expectations and anything else we should know about you that your resume doesn't already reveal. Relocation will be considered for qualified candidates.

Please email your resume to careers@beatport.com

Beatport offers a cool downtown location just blocks from Coors Field and a casual, funky working environment that is a pleasure to spend your day in. Want to know more about us – check out our website at www.beatport.com