Lead Software Engineer Job in San Francisco 94104, California US

Can you own the entire software development lifecycle; do you like working with the business just as much as you enjoy writing code? Do you love working with and learning open source platforms to create solutions to business problems? Do you have a passion for technology and marketing?

 

Altius Education has a position for YOU!

 

We offer stock options, challenging work, opportunities for career growth, a relaxing and fun work environment, and most of all the chance to be part of the team who will change higher education. If this sounds like what you’re looking for then we ARE the right company for you!

 

We are looking for is a highly qualified self-starter to take on the position of LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER.  This person will work closely with our Marketing team to create a platform that is capable of executing and scaling through our web and social presence.

 

Your mission is to:

·         Design, develop and maintain solutions for marketing, eCommerce, and content management functionalities leveraging open source frameworks.

·         Deliver sophisticated cms-based sites pushing the boundaries of the platform.

·         Engage with business users to understand the requirements, create self-service features that add value, and look for opportunities where technology can add value to business processes

·         Integrating new solutions into our existing platforms using either custom code or APIs.

·         Optimizing and maintaining existing code/applications.

·         Direct user support, general troubleshooting, and documentation.

 

Our Ideal Candidate has the following candidates:  

·         5+ years of website or web application development experience

·         Solid experience developing LAMP or Java applications using OOP

·         Strong understanding of web architecture that foster modularity, layering, and reusability of templates.

·         Capable of writing/modifying modules in open source platfroms.

·         Experienced in MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, and template based systems.

·         Independent, self-starter, organized and welcomes autonomy.

·         Excellent communication skills and effective in dealing with the business as well as developers, consultants, and off shore teams.

·         Basic Administration of Apache servers.

·         Experience with any PHP or Java based Content Management Systems (Durpal, Joomla, Alfresco, dotCMS, etc) is a huge plus

 

SALARY EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full time Commensurate with experience.   

 

REPORTS TO: Vice President of Technology

 

WORK SCHEDULE: Flexible with Nights and Weekends.

EDUCATION: B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.