Information Technology Professional

This is a truly unique opportunity for a very knowledgeable Magento/PHP developer who wants to take their career to the next level.  We need to fill this position in the next week, so please reply ASAP if you are interested!

The plan:

Over the next six months, you'll join our already senior team of developers who will be working with an award-winning world-class creative team to create an entirely new site and brand for the India consumer market.  You'll work out of our offices in Richardson, TX and launch their first site in August and continue to provide incremental new features until the end of the six months.  If at the end we have a happy client and valued working with you, there will be opportunity for additional work.

Responsibilities will include:

-Participate in all Agile Scrum related activities, e.g., Daily Stand up meeting, Sprint Planning sessions etc.

-Follow Continuous Integration build process.

-Troubleshoot and provide support

-Backend feature development: including Indian credit card processors, text messaging and shipping vendors using REST or web service interfaces

-Front-end theme integration

-Integration and support using MySQL database

-Performance testing and tuning

-Collaboration with hosting company

Critical skills required:

-Team oriented

-Pride in the quality of your work

-Excellent time management skills

-Ability to work in a client facing role

-Strong work ethic and attention to detail

-Previous experience implementing Magento

-Excellent eCommerce knowledge

-Ability to meet deadlines and accurately estimate ETA for new project completion

-Understanding of Indian culture a plus

Requirements:

-Maintaining and Modifying Databases using MySQL

-Making timely modifications to an E-commerce website

-Uploading data to a MySql Databases/E-commerce website

-Strong knowledge of e-commerce usability and best industry practices

-Knowledge of coding design, maintenance requirements, and modifications to Magento e-commerce software

-Ability to construct custom Magento themes and extensions

-Possess deep expertise and experience in the PHP Zend framework and web services integration

-Have exposure to source/version control (SVN)

Technologies:

-Magento (Community Edition, prefer Enterprise Edition)

-HTML, CSS, jQuery/JavaScript

-Unix and Windows

-SSL, XML, cookies, HTTPS post concepts, and API development

-Web Services / REST

-SVN version control

-MySQL

What you need to be successful:

-Know PHP inside and out

-2+ years Magento experience

-CMS/Magento integration experience

-Backend and third-party integration with Magento

(The Work Buzz) Workplaces are not new. They’ve been around forever, figuratively speaking. Yet, thanks to evolving technology, employees and bosses continue to find new controversies to settle. Twitter, e-mails, blogs, etc. They’ve all caused headaches and lawsuits. The latest kerfuffle has gone all the way to the Supreme Court, and it could change the way some workers think about workplace privacy.

In City of Ontario v. Quon, Jeff Quon, a police sergeant in Ontario, Calif., had the text messages on his company-provided cell phone audited by the city and claimed he had a right to privacy. A lower court agreed and said he had the right to file suit, but the Supreme Court ruled otherwise.

According to NPR:

A review of the transcripts revealed messages between Quon and his wife, Jerilyn, from whom he was estranged. He also exchanged intimate texts with his girlfriend, April Florio, another police department employee.

Internal affairs investigators pulled two months of transcripts and concluded that of 456 messages Quon sent or received during work hours in August 2002, no more than 57 were related to his job.

Ontario police officers had been put on notice that their e-mail messages and texts could be subject to oversight by department supervisors.

For an overview of the case, you can head over to ScotusWiki and read the details of the case. In a unanimous decision, the court decided, that Quon had no reasonable expectation of privacy in this particular case and that the city did not violate his constitutional rights. The court also made clear that it did not mean workers have no right to privacy with regard to workplace communications. In other words, this case isn’t quite as far reaching as it could have been. And since I’m no legal scholar, I won’t hypothesize about what it could mean for us beyond what the court ruled.

Still, the case is worth thinking about as an employee. If you have a company-provided pager (or cell phone as it probably is in most professions), should you expect that anything you write during the workday is private? Does that mentality extend to how you correspond via work e-mail? Do you think employers should be able to audit your correspondence if they want or only if it directly relates to an issue where your messages are pivotal to the outcome? Do you agree with the Supreme Court in this case?

Let us know what you think.