PHP Web Developer

Job Summary:

• We’re looking for someone that wants to take on a challenge and do something amazing.
• We are a small startup with big ambitions in the Arabic content industry. Which means we work hard but we have fun doing it.
• So if you’re not interested in enriching the lives of others through exposing them to new ideas and telling them interesting stories, please stop reading. But if you are, well, that makes us happy :) Please follow along.
• They say technology can do great stuff for the content industry, and we want someone that can tell us how and do the job.
• The job is for a Web Developer to develop the back-end of Manshoor.com, if you’re a full-stack master and can do front-end, then that’s a huge bonus! If you join Manshoor you are expected to take the lead on the development side and you will be supported by a team that wants to take this project to great new heights.
• You will be working closely with the content team and the management team to create new technology products and push continuous improvements to the platform.

Our Work Environment:

• As founders to this company (yes, one of them is writing this) this is a fun career for us and we want the experience of working with Manshoor to be fun for everybody.
• We can’t wait to meet you and tell you about where we come from and what we have in mind and the stuff we want to create and want you help us achieve! So you’ll be working in a small organization with a wide reach across the Arab region.
• Our work is casual, and we believe that everyone is responsible for their tasks and their area and we treat each other as adults, or at least we try to.

A Word on The Job:

• Manshoor.com was created by an outside company based in Jordan.
• The website is written in PHP using Yii framework.
• You will be the first in house developer in what we hope to be a development team that will help us achieve our goals.
• As the first developer in, you’ll have an important say on how we build our development team and how do we move forward on the development front, we would want to hear your ideas and if you make a convincing case we will move on them to make them happen.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and develop Manshoor's current back-end.
• Optimize and scale the current back-end to serve more users.
• Optimize and debug the website.
• Collaborate with SEO executives for a more search engine friendly website.
• Create and maintain more websites.
• (Full-stack guys) Optimize UI of the website.