The Martingale
 At this event, around 10 Tech Companies will pitch their coding projects in a series of 5-minute lightning sessions to software developers looking for interesting, agile projects using progressive technologies.
The Martingale believes that the dominance eBay has enjoyed in recent years is giving way to web 2.0 specialist auction sites with strong community elements.
Over the last three years its team has built category killer software to specifically target large communities of collectors allowing it to compete with eBay in a number of their markets worth a$200 billion GMV p.a. Martingale plans to operate a number communities with the following features:
- Niche specific blogs, clubs, directories, competitions, events, forums, friendships, galleries, videos
- A Catalogue of every toy ever produced
- Context engine allowing all content to be personalised (a member only sees only Batman stuff, L.A. Lakers memorabilia, stamps from Indonesia or all of them - subject to what he likes or chooses)
- A Google Finance style Collection Management capability that links press releases and buy/sell events to track the current value of individual collectables together with a collectors entire portfolio.
Toy Collector, our first community is up and running.
Jobs
We are always looking for good people to join our team and currently have the following openings:
2x Senior PHP Developer
We are now looking for a senior developer to help drive the development of the new version of our software suite that will drive our communities to work from out Amersham office.
The successful candidate must be able to work as part of a team and independently, have the ability to work with an analytical, problem solving approach, show ability to deliver projects within specified timeframes and have 5-10 years experience.
Essential areas of skills/experience
- PHP 5 programming experience, both in structured
- Experienced writing/maintaining jQuery / javascript / MooTools / Prototype UI scripts, using AJAX
- Confident writing SQL for MySQL 5 / PostgreSQL 8 platforms, via mysql and psql client command line tools.
- Experience writing/maintaining plugins/components/modules for Joomla (or similar CMS's such as Drupal, Xoops, Wordpress, MT)
- Experienced using source revision control system such as GIT, to work on an application with multiple concurrent branches.
- Experienced developing in a LAMP environment, (Linux, Preferably RHEL or Centos / Apache 2 / MySQL 5 / MemCache)
Preferably (coding experience with):
- PostgreSQL
An understanding of frontend development using CSS/XHTML and template engines such as Warp & Smarty
- Linux Command Line tools; bash, patch, diff, tofrodos, ViM, git
- Familiar coding a multi-layered application with Client/Server layers, communicating with XMLRPC, Soap or similar
- MediaWiki, vBulletin, experience would be an asset
- Shell scripting experience would be useful
Nice to haves are familiarity with the following tools:
- A common development environment such as Eclipse / Net Beans / ViM
- Zen or similar PHP development/debugging tool
- MySQL Enterprise tools
- VmWare
Candidates must have experience delivering high profile projects on ‘Internet’ timescales and must be able to point to Web 2.0 projects (preferably Social Media) where he/she has had significant input on its design and development. We are a fast growing company and are, ideally, looking for an experienced developer who would like to grow into team leadership/development management.
Besides through interviews prospective candidates will be tested on the skills listed here in, particularly PHP Syntax, ability to follow a spec and ability to understand, bug fix and extend existing code.
1x PHP Developer
We are now looking for a senior developer to help drive the development of the new version of our software suite that will drive our communities to work from out Amersham office.
The successful candidate must be able to work as part of a team and independently, have the ability to work with an analytical, problem solving approach, show ability to deliver projects within specified timeframes and have 3-5 years experience.
Essential areas of skills/experience
- PHP 5 programming experience, both in structured and object oriented development styles.
- Experienced writing/maintaining jQuery / javascript / MooTools / Prototype UI scripts, using AJAX
- Confident writing SQL for MySQL 5 / PostgreSQL 8 platforms, via mysql and psql client command line tools.
- Experience writing/maintaining plugins/components/modules for Joomla (or similar CMS's such as Drupal, Xoops, Wordpress, MT)
- Experienced using source revision control system such as GIT, to work on an application with multiple concurrent branches.
- Experienced developing in a LAMP environment, (Linux, Preferably RHEL or Centos / Apache 2 / MySQL 5 / MemCache)
Preferably (coding experience with):
- PostgreSQL
- An understanding of frontend development using CSS/XHTML and template engines such as Warp & Smarty
- Linux Command Line tools; bash, patch, diff, tofrodos, ViM, git
- Familiar coding a multi-layered application with Client/Server layers, communicating with XMLRPC, Soap or similar
- MediaWiki, vBulletin, experience would be an asset
- Shell scripting experience would be useful
Nice to haves are familiarity with the following tools
- A common development environment such as Eclipse / Net Beans / ViM
- Zen or similar PHP development/debugging tool
- MySQL Enterprise tools
- VmWare
Candidates must have experience delivering high profile projects on ‘Internet’ timescales and must be able to point to Web 2.0 projects (preferably Social Media) where he/she has had significant input on its design and development.
Besides through interviews prospective candidates will be tested on the skills listed here in, particularly PHP Syntax, ability to follow a spec and ability to understand, bug fix and extend existing code.
ABOUT SIMON BAZLEY
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Simon Bazley is a Senior Engineer / Team Leader Developer at Martingale Internet Technologies
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ABOUT THE FIND YOUR NINJA PROJECT
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We are organising some evening events, dedicated to help development teams find new colleagues, and where developers (and project or product managers, architects, testers..) can find out about some really cool projects.
More about the Find Your Ninja Project
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This session took part at the Cool Projects in June . You can view the other 6 podcasts here.
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