Rapid Intelligence - Career as PHP Developer


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Current Jobs Available: Web Application Developer

We are looking for a PHP Programmer to help maintain and develop the PHP frontends to our large-scale consumer websites (includes NationMaster.com and exciting new sites).

We offer:

Small, innovative team
Opportunity to use diverse range of skills
User focus. We're publishers. We have no clients!

Why work for us? We get over 12 million pageviews monthly, so everything you do will hit the big time. Our mission is to make data accessible and understandable for everyone around the world. And it should all be free! We seek to build long term relationships with our staff and grow with them. Most of our telecommute employees have been with us for several years. If you enjoy challenging and rewarding projects, this job is for you.

Successful candidates will have the following technical knowledge and experience:

Web application development experience. You must have implemented complex algorithms and needed to understand others'.
Advanced PHP (at least 3 years). You must be able to read others' code.
MySQL
HTML, CSS, Javascript

That's the technical side of things but your personality matters too. You must have:

Strong work ethic
Powerful analytical abilities
Desire to continually learn and improve
Good communication skills in English
Pragmatic approach

If you've got experience in any of the following areas, we'll like you even more:

Web scalability
WikiMedia software
Text processing
Telecommuting
Design
Ad trafficking
Analytics
Writing
Search engine optimisation
System administration (LAMP)
Documentation.

Location: This job is full time telecommute but you must have lots of crossover between the times of 23:00 and 11:00 GMT. You may apply from anywhere in the world but you must have a permanent high speed internet connection, self discipline and a home office where you can work without distractions.

Pay: Salary depends on experience but will be competitive!
Please send your resume to
preg_replace("/z/", "s", 'phpjobz@rapint.com');

Please include some sample code you've written that you feel is relevant, and point us at projects you've done that are live on the web.

Rapid Intelligence: We think quickly!

Hiring: Full time web developer

Due to ongoing growth, we are now hiring for full time web developers. If you'd like to work on NationMaster and other free research sites, we would love to hear from you.

Ad Sales / Ad Operations role

Due to recent growth, we are currently hiring for an ad operations and ad sales role. If you know online advertising from a technical and business point of view, this may be the role for you.

NationMaster and FactBites top Web 2.0 apps

We are honoured to be listed among Australia's best web 2.0 applications this week. Ross Dawson produced a list for the prestigious Business Review Weekly showing our most internationally successful, innovative sites.

Two of our sites, FactBites and NationMaster, made the grade.

New database

We've just put live a significant revision of our technology on Factbites. Now there's more and higher quality results. We hope you notice the difference! Also, we have a new feature on the way which will be pretty obvious once it hits the site. Stay tuned.

Thanks

We're Site of the Week

Respected US education magazine, District Administration has just made StateMaster its Web Site of the Week. We're chuffed here at Rapid.

A big stat update is on the way soon, by the way. This is for both NationMaster and StateMaster.

NationMaster on SearchEngineWatch

Mary Ellen Bates just gave us a nice review of NationMaster at SearchEngineWatch.

As researchers and information professionals are called upon to provide not just information but intelligence, NationMaster.com is a great resource for gaining new insights from the available information.

She mentioned StateMaster