FlipStorm

We’re especially interested if you’re a young graduate looking to get into the industry with a fresh, fast-moving studio. We’re offering a paid internship with the following awesome benefits:

• Lunch provided every day
• Transport costs paid for
• You get to use a brand new iMac!

Who we’re looking for

An enthusiastic and willing person who has some experience (doesn’t have to be commercial) with PHP. You will be confident with writing standards-compliant HTML and CSS.

Ask yourself:

• Do I love social networks like Facebook and Twitter? Do I want to get paid to play around on them all day?
• Do I believe the web is the future and that web apps are going to one day take over the world?
• Do I know: what are WebHooks? what is memcached? what APIs stands for and why they’re amazing? (What do I do if I don’t know what these are?)
• Am I excited by ubiquity? (What’s ubiquity?)
• Are offline web applications cool?
• How can I make this website server 1 million page requests at a time without crashing the server?
• What’s OOP and MVC?
• Do I love sharing my ideas?
• Do I geek out about cool stuff I find on the web?

Don’t worry if you don’t have answers to all of these questions. If you have the desire to find out what the answers are, chances are you’re a good fit! Bonus Experience/Skills:

• Javascript (esp. using jQuery) – AJAX, JSON
• Apache
• MySQL
• Linux (esp. writing bash scripts)
• Mac
• Adobe Tools
• Other markup languages (esp. XML)
• Other programming languages (Python, Ruby, Perl)
• WordPress (setup, customisation, themes, plugins)
• Any flair for design
• Some use of version control software such as Git or Subversion

The Position

Part-time (max. 24 hours/week) web developer to work from our office in Oldbury on a temporary basis (initially for 3 months), with the possibility of a permanent role.

You will primarily be tasked with building CMS websites from raw designs (PSDs) or templates for FlipStorm’s various clients.

You will also be building web applications using our own open source MVC web application framework for internal and client projects.

Other tasks will involve promoting client brands and products through various mediums, researching and implementing new ways to grow and interact with their communities.

In some cases you will have charge of the entire project life-cycle. In other cases you will be asked to assist on ongoing projects.

You must be able to communicate in an effective and timely fashion directly with clients, through various tools and services (email, Skype, Basecamp).

A warm and chirpy nature will go far, you must be able to cope under pressure. When things go quiet, use that time to come up with cool and innovative ways to pass the time

If you think you fit the bill, give Simon a call on 0121 286 22 88 or fill out our contact form