Overview

Full Stack/ PHP Web Developer

Status: Full Time – Salary Exempt

Annual Salary: DOE

Location: Boise, Idaho (non-remote)

Company Culture

Love the great outdoors? Love riding anything with two wheels? Four wheels? Skis? Based in beautiful Boise, Idaho, access to the great outdoors is just outside your front door. So what is it we do? We like to say “we sell fun.” As one of the fastest growing wholesale distributors of aftermarket powersports parts, apparel, and accessories, we are a group of enthusiasts that work hard, play just as hard, and sell fun products to a nationwide network of dealers and fellow enthusiasts.

Beyond our enthusiasm for the powersports industry, we provide many perks besides easy access to a sportsman’s paradise. Take advantage of a fully groomed motocross track, during scheduled company ride days, at our on-site test motocross track; get in a lunchtime workout session at our state-of-the-art gym facility—complete with half-court basketball court; or, take part in our weekly group mountain bike ride.

Sound like fun? Then join us!

Job Details

Western Power Sports is currently seeking a Full Stack/PHP Web Developer to join its fast-paced and expanding community. We are looking for mid-to-senior level candidates with the desire to grow professionally. A well-qualified individual will have hands-on experience building, testing, deploying and maintaining high-quality, scalable web applications. If you thrive in a professional team environment, enjoy finding solutions to varying challenges and have a passion for web application development, this is the opportunity to develop your career!

Our projects reside on a fleet of cloud-based load-balanced autoscaling linux server instances on AWS. Current work is taking place in Drupal and Laravel, so be prepared to dive into those if you haven’t already. The primary languages that we develop in are PHP, HTML5, and JavaScript but we do not necessarily limit ourselves to that area.

What We’d Like to See:

  • Self-starting learner with excellent communication and organizational skills.
  • Strong understanding of PHP, application architecture and object-oriented design.
  • Ability to work with minimal direction while maintaining a high level of productivity.
  • Basic knowledge of Linux environments and open source tools/platforms.
  • A solid foundation of semantic HTML and CSS and at the very least minimal experience working with JavaScript and related libraries.
  • Knowledge of cross-browser/cross-platform compatibility.
  • Experience building applications that use REST based web services and JSON data structures.
  • Experience with version control systems (particularly Git)
  • Comfortable learning and embracing new languages quickly; ability to help us assess where new technologies, languages, and platforms may be things we should consider.

Bonus Points (not required, but helpful)

  • CMS experience, PHP framework experience, Laravel 5, Drupal 7, Magento CE, Zend Framework.
  • Server (EC2) administration on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • MySQL, DB2, and/or other database knowledge.
  • Mobile Development (Web-based HTML5 mobile responsive design)
  • Providing URLs of sites you’ve developed.
  • Providing your GitHub username so we can view some of your projects/code

We are a drug-free workplace. All job offers are contingent on successful drug screen results.

We do not currently sponsor H-1B candidates.

About Western Power Sports

Join WPS

At Western Power Sports, our motto is "work hard, play hard". We are seeking individuals who are passionate about life and bring that energy to their careers. As a member of our team, you will be exposed to the fast-paced powersports environment, which has experienced explosive growth over recent years. We offer competitive pay and benefits coupled with potential for career growth.

Company Culture

Love the great outdoors? Love riding anything with two wheels? Four wheels? Skis? Based in beautiful Boise, Idaho, access to the great outdoors is just outside your front door. So what is it we do? We like to say “we sell fun.” As one of the fastest growing wholesale distributors of aftermarket powersports parts, apparel, and accessories, we are a group of enthusiasts that work hard, play just as hard, and sell fun products to a nationwide network of dealers and fellow enthusiasts.

Beyond our enthusiasm for the powersports industry, we provide many perks besides easy access to a sportsman’s paradise. Take advantage of a fully groomed motocross track, during scheduled company ride days, at our on-site test motocross track; get in a lunchtime workout session at our state-of-the-art gym facility—complete with half-court basketball court; or, take part in our weekly group mountain bike ride.

What else? Well, in case you haven’t noticed already, we like to have fun around here. We value a casual office atmosphere paired with an intense competitive drive to succeed. We strive to bring our customers the best product, service and delivery in the friendliest, most helpful manner possible—while at the same time having fun and enjoying what we do. Sound like fun? Then join us!