Love Technology and Code? We’re looking for you!

The Cheat Sheet, a Quantcast Top 125 website, is looking for a full-time Web Developer to join our team! Busy news consumers in our increasingly mobile world come to The Cheat Sheet for its succinct, value-added analyses, and you could be responsible for our awesome technology!

As our Web Developer you will:

• Work with a small team of developers on a data analysis project. This work will be primarily in Yii framework where data is collected from various sources.

• Work with many different APIs, optimize MySQL tables, write views in Yii and more!

• Collaborate with team members to help us figure out solutions to some very complex and interesting problems.

• Work from home! This role requires someone who is self-disciplined and able to utilize virtual communication tools well.

What makes The Cheat Sheet a great place to work?

• We are a recognized digital media leader with more than 17 million monthly readers: our site has been ranked Forbes’s #1 Social Media Influencer on Wall Street and a Google Editors’ Picks partner.

• We are a tightly knit team that is passionate about the overall product and strives to be an expert in the field. We have a collaborative culture driven by mutual respect that fosters regular feedback and group discussion.

• We are a young company on the verge of rapid growth and we want you to grow with us. At The Cheat Sheet, your career is what you make of it.

• Work from home, a coffee shop, or anywhere of your choosing. We have a distributed workforce, which means that you can live wherever you want and work with brilliant colleagues from around the country.

• We offer competitive salaries, health insurance, performance bonuses, and 401k.

Required Skills

The right candidate will have very strong skills in the following:

• PHP

• MySQL

• Javascript, jQuery

• HTML/CSS

• Yii Framework or MVC Framework Experience

• Familiarity with Object Oriented Programming

• Standards compliant coding practices

Bonus Skills

• Experience with revision control, particularly Mercurial

• Hadoop

• Wordpress

• Linux CLI

• PHPDoc

How do we score on the “Joel Test”?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

1. Do you use source control?

   1. Yes.

2. Can you make a build in one step?

   1. N/A - We don’t work with compiled code

3. Do you make daily builds?

   1. N/A - We don’t work with compiled code

4. Do you have a bug database?

   1. Yes.

5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?

   1. Yes.

6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?

   1. No.

7. Do you have a spec?

   1. Yes.

8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?

   1. Yes? You work from home so it’s up to you.

9. Do you use the best tools money can buy?

   1. Yes? You work from home so it’s up to you.

10. Do you have testers?

    1. No.

11. Do new candidates write code during their interview?

    1. Yes.

12. Do you do hallway usability testing?

    1. We don’t have a hallway but we do have the end-users available to test and give feedback often.