Oomph is looking to grow its first-class web and mobile development team, and is seeking to hire a full-time PHP & MySQL Developer with an interest in working with Drupal and WordPress open source platforms.

Qualifications

Experience building custom PHP- and MySQL-based web applications is essential. Oomph is willing to provide training and mentoring on WordPress- and Drupal-specific engineering where needed, but basic familiarity with HTML/CSS is important; applicants with stronger HTML/CSS skills will be highly preferred. Experience with JavaScript, and ideally, frameworks like jQuery is also highly desirable.

It is important to understand that this is a web engineering position, not a web design position. A successful candidate will be passionate about writing clean, organized code with particular emphasis on performance and security. If you know how to create a function and a class, and know what a while loop and conditional statement are, keep reading!

Candidates with strong communication and time management skills will also be highly preferred. In order for the candidate to grow beyond a basic developer, the ability to effectively coordinate directly with multiple clients in a given week is essential.

While Oomph’s engineering team will be on hand to mentor and assist the new developer, the right candidate would have a self-starter attitude with an aptitude for independently researching and implementing solutions.

The employee must be located in Boston, Providence, or surrounding areas.

Responsibilities

The developer will support a wide variety of programming projects, many of which use WordPress or Drupal as the underlying platform. Projects will typically focus on developing custom PHP code with MySQL interaction to meet detailed client requirements. While the projects will primarily entail server-side programming, they will invariably require some level of client-side programming, including HTML/CSS and JavaScript.

The developer will typically be assigned several deadlines over a given period, and is expected to effectively manage his or her time to meet those deadlines. A successful candidate with good communication skills will be expected to directly manage some clients on a day to day basis as time goes on.

About Oomph

Oomph is a digital agency with offices in Providence, RI and Cambridge, MA, dedicated to realizing first-class web and mobile experiences. Oomph is a responsible, green company that offers competitive salaries, health benefits, a retirement plan with company match, casual dress, and flexible hours that include limited work from home opportunities.

Please send an e-mail explaining why you believe you’re a fit for the position with your résumé attached to join [at] oomphinc.com. Be sure to include examples of past, relevant work.