Want to work with the IDF as Senior PHP and Web Developer?
We are in the process of completely rebuilding our course platform and community platform from scratch – based on an awesome technology stack. And we need you to join us!
Why we think you should join our international team:
- You can work from anywhere in the world – yet have daily video-based contact with your international colleagues who work on a full-time, part-time or volunteer basis
- You can perfect your skills, help build a completely redesigned platform, and have absolutely no bureaucratic or managerial obstacles in your work.
- You can join your international colleagues when we – for example – go on team-building on a tropical island (see pictures below)
- You get to work with the best designers in the world.
- You get to work with true perfectionists! The development team is a small but high-powered team of 5 full-time staff with inputs/help from an additional 5 people.
- You will help our mission of lowering the cost of education globally
We are looking for a Senior PHP and Web developer. A true perfectionist who…:
- Wants to take our educational platform to the next level – to the benefit of millions of people
- Has 6+ years of experience working professionally with PHP (OO + MVC)
- Is ambitious, result-oriented, friendly, and works efficiently.
- Is self-motivated and love to see tangible results.
- It’s a plus if you have project management experience but we are a small and high-powered team so we don’t need overly rigid project management.
- You need to speak and write acceptable English (not perfect, just acceptable). You will be working with people from Serbia, Thailand, Denmark and South Africa.
About the technology stack
We believe we have great technology stack and we have a great (and agile) development process to back that up. You don’t have to be an expert in all of these things – the most important thing is your PHP knowledge and then a lot of experience from other projects.
The technology stack is:
- Fat Free Framework - A lightning-fast and lightweight PHP framework*
- Composer
- Git and GitHub
- Vagrant (with VirtualBox)
- LESS
- Zurb's Foundation
- MariaDB and MongoDB
*This particular framework is super lightweight, easy to learn and has a range of engines like templating engine, internationalization engine, etc.
About our work culture
We love results, productivity, focus and efficiency – achieved through:
- healthy work habits
- a love for what we do, and
- taking great care of each other
We don’t like stress, burnout, deadlines, interruptions, and meetings-for-the-sake-of-meetings. We “work smarter, not harder”.
We celebrate each other’s work and consider what we do a labor of love. - We get inspiration from books like this one and this one
About Interaction Design Foundation, IDF
- We are a non-profit NGO founded in Denmark with the goal of lowering the cost of high-quality education globally. You can read about us at http://www.interaction-design.org/about
- We reach around 8 million design-interested people every month on social media
- We help hundreds of thousands of professional designers improve their skills and careers
- Our educational materials are used in hundreds – if not thousands – of universities around the world.
How to apply
- Please send an application to Rikke Friis Dam at rikke.friis.dam@interaction-design.org
- Please tell us why you want to put your heart, mind and hard work into this job. We need to hear something personal from you.
- Apply the sooner, the better.
