Do you have a track record of delivering innovative, reliable and high-performance web applications? Are you inspired by leading an agile and innovative technical team? Do you have recent hands-on development experience using PHP, Drupal or Java yet love management, planning, and problem-solving? This job may be for you.
Responsibilities
- Work with Product and Design teams to conceive and define new/changed features of Zagat.com
- Develop technical specifications, lead architectural decisions and guide more complex technical implementations for Zagat.com web site and internal applications
- Identify logical divisions of work, define and distribute assignments and facilitate progress in the department of 7 developers and 2 sys admins and QA team
- Work directly with programmers throughout the project, helping to answer their questions and keep them focused on completing the most common scenarios within the specification
- Lead trouble-shooting of production problems
- Manage zagat.com
- Manage internal systems (enterprise CMS, Office, E-mail, GP Dynamics financials)
- Manage technical performance of external vendors responsible for the development and operations of zagat.mobi and Zagat mobile apps
- Manage vendors and contracts
- Manage tech team including setting long-term goals and delivering performance reviews
Requirements
The successful candidate should have
- Recent hands on experience developing in LAMP environment using one of the common development languages and frameworks (e.g. PHP, Drupal, or Java)
- 2 or more years of experience with Drupal or willingness to learn
- Experience with building and managing consumer-facing, high traffic web sites
- Strong team management experience
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Willingness to consider attending Drupal beers
Please respond to jobs@zagat.com
No agencies please.