Freelance Jobs – June 21, 2011
PHP Developer/Contract or Freelance
DESCRIPTION:
JV2 is looking for a solid (dependable) freelance PHP developer for ongoing work averaging between 50 – 75 hours/month, indefinitely. Specifically, developers that have the following skills:
REQUIREMENTS:
- Full understanding of wordpress / templates / functions / admin customization
- Experience with Magento, and similar e-commerce systems
- Experience in server admin (unix / ubuntu, fedora, etc…), ssl, security, uptime, etc…
- Solid HTML/CSS/JS skills – Specifically debugging
- Version control fanatic.
If this is you, please contact us. US candidates are preferred simply due to time-zone communication. But we’ll work with anyone that’s good. We’d like to start you up right away. References will be required and verified. If by chance you’re in or near Salt Lake City we’d love to talk about a full-time slot, otherwise, anyone is welcome to apply for this gig.
Company Information: JV2
Contact Information: jobs@jv2.com
URL: Authentic Jobs
Front End Engineer
DESCRIPTION:
WHO WE ARE
SlideShowPro develops software products for web designers, developers and photographers that facilitate the creation of custom slideshows, photo galleries, and portfolio sites. Our content management system (SlideShowPro Director) and core media player (SlideShowPro Player) are used by tens of thousands of people around the world. Self-install and desktop products are sold through SlideShowPro.net, while SlideShowPro.com (SaaS) provides universal slideshow publishing and content management.
SlideShowPro has been in business for over five years, is fully boot-strapped, profitable and growing.
You would be joining a small, highly motivated software development team where you’ll be working directly on new product development and services.
This is a full-time position that allows you to telecommute from where you are as long as you live within the continental United States.
If you love to code and have a passion for beautiful, functional web applications and software products, we’d like to work with you!
YOUR NEW JOB
You’ll work directly with Todd Dominey (CEO), Brad Daily (CTO), and Lauren Smith (Senior Web Application Engineer) to code custom JavaScript and HTML/CSS markup that implements front-end web application functionality. The work would include a variety of JavaScript-powered tasks, including everything from user interface controls to page templates, utilities, plug-ins, and e-commerce.
REQUIREMENTS:
THE ESSENTIALS
The next member of our team will need all of the following characteristics:
- Expertise in JavaScript and experience building production web applications.
- Previous work experience with Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) development environments.
- Solid understanding of OOP and event-driven programming.
- Top notch skills in standards-based HTML5 and CSS3.
- Familiarity with data interchange formats like JSON and XML and how they are used in the transport of data from one interface to another.
- Experience using source code versioning systems like Subversion or Git.
- Be a stickler for cross-browser and cross-platform testing.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-motivated team player.
- The ability to work remotely and maintain communication during work hours.
- Must live in the contiguous United States.
SET YOURSELF APART
While not required, having some of the following will put you a step ahead of the competition:
- Experience developing interfaces specifically for mobile webkit browsers (iOS, Android, etc).
- Experience using the ImageMagick image processing library and FFmpeg video manipulation library.
- Experience with JavaScript MVC libraries like Backbone or Knockout.js.
- Experience working on high-traffic/high-bandwidth web applications.
- History of creating and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Experience with test driven development (TDD).
- Experience developing consumer software products.
- Extremely organized and detail oriented.
- Is passionate about “getting it right” in addition to “making it work”.
Company Information: SlideShowPro
Contact Information: brad@slideshowpro.net
URL: Authentic Jobs
Online Editor In Chief
DESCRIPTION:
Checklist.com is a productivity platform helping people get things done! We help people get started with thousands of pre-made checklist templates and tips. We are looking for an Editor-in-Chief who will take responsibility for setting up and managing our informational portal. You will be our first full-time editor and will have the opportunity to shape our portal strategy. Your main goal will be to provide our users with great, engaging, fun, yet highly informative and productive content (we love them to come back for more).You will be responsible for hiring & managing freelance writers, setting style guides, editing and driving content development. In this position you can work from anywhere and at anytime.
Some of your key responsibilities will include:
- Concept development, content policy, style guide
- Manage our checklists database & editorial calendar
- Managing a team of qualified writers: recruiting, training, motivating, monitoring and progress reporting (KPIs)
- Editing and approving site content and ensuring style & SEO guidelines are maintained, attractiveness of headlines & keywords
- Develop relationships with experts in a large number of fields. Those experts will regularly contribute to our portal
- Execute and manage our regular newsletters
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experienced in editing & managing a team of writers
- Preferably a senior editorial role at a large online portal with more than 1M monthly visitors
- Native US English speaker
- Experience in setting and enforcing style guides
- Clear understanding of how to build website traffic and leverage content marketing – an SEO Guru
- A home office with excellent Internet connectivity and computer
What we offer you
We are looking for dedicated candidates on a full time and long term basis. We offer competitive remuneration and a VERY flexible working environment: you can work from anywhere in the world at your schedule! Beyond that: the satisfaction of helping people get things done!
Company Information: Checklist.com
Contact Information: Interested? Please email your CV & motivation letter to hr@checklist.com. Please don’t forget to include a summary of your latest success stories!
URL: Genuine Jobs
Freelancing is my life. It's what I know, it's what I'm good at, and I can't imagine doing anything else. You can call me "Freddie the Freelancer"… because I'd prefer not to use my real name for reasons that I'll tell you about in a moment.
