Sr Programmer Position to Fill in Toronto

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Sr.PHP Programmer, In House Position, Toronto, CA

Skills Requirements
o Strong written/verbal communication
o Solid team player with passion to participate in mentoring and team building
o Strong web application documentation, design, coding and testing experience
o Proven analytical ability to create/modify application code to support new functionality.
o Strong debugging experience with code written by other developers
o Proven ability to provide effort and elapsed time estimates for assigned work.
o Proven ability to execute project deliverables within effort and elapsed time estimates
o Proven experience in meeting workload estimates as defined in project work plan.

Responsibilities:
o Construct, develop, code, debug and maintain web site applications.
o Conform to in-house software development processes
o Conform to define software design methodology for the development and implementation of Internet based application to support all aspects of web site functionalities.
o Perform code evaluation and determine recommendations for adaptation.
o Creation of Low Level Design Document from Functional Specification and Technical design document.
o Conduct Low Level Design Review with Team Lead and Technical Lead to ensure that the Low Level Designs conform to respective Functional Specifications and Technical Designs.
o Participate in code reviews with Team Lead and Technical Lead to ensure that the code adheres to the low level design, and that the code meets coding standards compliance.
o Apply rigorous testing methodologies and use cases to analyze and verify software programs, algorithms, data transformation, forms, reports and interfaces.
o Timely communication of issues and status information to Team Lead concerning system development activities.
o Generate application test data as necessary and validate any data conversion requirements for final implementation and production rollout.
o Participate in project status review meeting with Team Lead.

Technical Expectations
o 8+ years of production programming experience of which 4+ years of solid PHP design/coding/testing in Open Source environment building large scale distributed web sites.
o Experience working in a formal software development environment
o 2-3+ years of PHP 5 Object Oriented software coding experience for web application
o 1-2+ years of Working with a second object oriented language such as perl or java.
o Experience programming in Zend Frameworks is an asset
o Linux, Mac O/S, MySQL, PHP 4/5, Apache/Light HTTP technology experience based on LAMP model
o Computer Science trained graduate or with equivalent work experience