Jobs @ Wapple
Web Developer
Location: Wapple UK
Salary: Dependant on Experience
Job Description:
Wapple.net is a leader in the mobile internet industry and is looking for a passionate and talented web and graphic designer to join our team.
Why work for Wapple?
You'll get the opportunity to design for some of the world's biggest and most recognizable brands and be part of the emerging mobile internet space. You'll also be working as part of a small, but awesome team, with a friendly casual vibe.
Key Activities
Your position would involve doing a wide range of work, from developing new and exciting functionality in our core products to updating and maintaining various mobile and web sites.
Job Responsibilities
- Responsibility in the development, design and maintenance of Wapple systems
- Systems admin
- Liaise with internal & external technical teams
- Support the development of mobile internet delivery systems
- Responsibility for product QA
- Occasional out-of-hours, on-call
- Any other related tasks as may reasonably be required to meet the needs of the Company
What's Important
- Honesty
- Motivation
- Passion about development and the mobile internet
- A strong desire to learn and soak up skills
- Proven experience
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent level education (not essential as the Company places greater value on real-life experience)
Experience
- PHP5 & OOP design experience
- MySQL database experience
- XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax
- Frameworks: CakePHP, jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous
- Experience of mobile markup language is desirable
- Experience of building communication layers with XML, REST, SOAP, etc
- Server admin
Knowledge and Understanding
- Knowledge of the Mobile Industry is desirable
- Knowledge of SEO processes
- Understanding of web standards – highly desirable
- Knowledge of version control – essential
- Knowledge of best coding practices – desirable
- Understanding of scalability of web servers under high load - desirable
Skills and Abilities
- Open minded individual, adaptable to an evolving company, industry and technology
- Driven & pro-active with a hunger to learn and eagerness to grow with the business
- Work well as part of a team and on your own
- Communicate extremely well verbally and in writing
- Think and act quickly and appropriately in a pressured situation
- Energy to go above and beyond
- Take on new challenges and learn new applications and processes quickly
- Self-disciplined, able to take instructions well, adapt to new priorities and meet tight deadlines whilst remaining thorough and focussed on delivering high quality results
How to apply
Email through your resume to: jobs@wapple.net with a little bit of info about yourself, and links to development work you’ve done.












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