Lead Developer with a Mission at Kindling, Inc (New York, NY)

Enterprise software is going through a massive transformation, away from stodgy, poorly designed apps sold on lists of features, towards thoughtfully designed solutions that work across all devices. At Kindling our mission is to modernize the enterprise experience with software people enjoy using. For us this means a design-oriented approach based on clarity, coherence, and simplicity. We build state-of-the-art innovation software which empowers members of an organization to contribute to the life and growth of that organization.

At Kindling you’ll be part of a tight-knit, supportive, creative, collaborative team that is passionate about building great user experiences. We’re excited about new technology and you should be, too; we’ve recently added elasticsearch and a node.js and redis socket to our platform—you’ll have a big impact on those types of decisions.

If all this interests you, Kindling is the place to be.

You have 7+ years experience working with LAMP environments and 3+ years tech leadership.

• Crafting great software with the user’s experience in mind.


• Object-oriented PHP, and Zend Framework.


• Test-driven development.


• Authentication including LDAP and SAML, and authorization using ACL.


• REST, developing an API, and working with APIs.


• Patterns and best practices.


• MySQL.


• Communication, documentation, and collaboration.

• Automated testing.


• Git.


• CI (Jenkins).


• Phing.


• Caching and elasticache.


• Content indexing and Elasticsearch.


• AWS.


• Scalability concerns.


• Familiarity with modern client-side web application libraries and practices.


• PHPunit.

To apply, you must:

• Write a winning cover letter—we’d love to hear why you were proud of a particular project or team you worked on.


• Attach a resume with links to projects you've worked on.


• Attach some code samples, or links to Git repos.