PHP Software Developer Engineer, vendor position, Wrocław

Would you like to be a developer working on the leading website for shopping and consumer reviews in Europe? Would you like to work in the international environment and help to grow Bing Search in Europe by developing the next generation of buying decision features for Bing? Come and join to a fun, fast moving environment in the beautiful city of Wroclaw, Poland.
Our development center is located in a comfortable office on the 11th floor of a new office building only minutes away from the center of Wroclaw. We are the first and only Microsoft development center in Poland and we aim to build a center of engineering excellence in Poland by recruiting talented people both inside and outside Microsoft.

Ciao (www.ciao.co.uk , www.ciao.de, www.ciao.fr, www.ciao.it, www.ciao.es, www.ciao-shopping.nl
, www.ciao.se) is Europe’s leading provider of shopping and consumer review websites. We joined the Microsoft Online Services Division (OSD) through an acquisition in October 2008. Today the Ciao Commerce division operates shopping platforms in seven countries and languages in Europe. The product tracks 6 million products, 37 million merchant offers and more than 5 million independent product reviews and opinions in over 20 top categories, such as cars, computers, digital cameras, finances, mobile phones, travel, electronics, and foodstuffs.

Our team is responsible for the end-to-end development of the advanced back-end and front-end technologies driving the European Commerce search experience. This includes the merchant offer integration system integrating more than 3 million online merchants, the product catalog synthesis pipelines, as well as a sophisticated community platform for more than one million members. We are a very fast-paced team and employ agile development methodologies and processes including Scrum and provide offer opportunities for strong developers to work on a wide range of scalable web technologies.

We are looking for talented PHP software developers who will help to develop the next generation of these products and backend systems.

Your responsibilities will include:
- Work on maintaining current features of our websites
- Develop new features
- Take responsibility for your own work through planning, estimating, implementing, testing tasks and documenting your code

For our open positions we are looking for people with:
- Solid, practical knowledge of PHP4 and object oriented PHP5
- Good knowledge of object oriented designing and programming
- Good knowledge of Java Script, AJAX and jQuery
- Good knowledge of HTML, XHTML, CSS and cross browser integration
- Experience with database application design, SQL and stored procedures
- Experience with working with version control systems(CVS and/or SVN)
- Knowledge of Linux, BSD or UNIX which will allow for fluent every day developer’s work
- A university degree in computer science or comparable education or experience
- Analytical problem solving
- Good communications skills both in written and verbal English

Ideally you will have:
- Experience with agile software development methodologies (ideally SCRUM)
- Experience with developing websites working under heavy web traffic
- Experience with developing n-tier web applications
- Software development and engineering experience with design, coding and debugging skills in C# and ASP.NET to possibly work in our .NET projects
We are looking for people with a positive "can do" attitude, the ability to work well within a team and the ability to get things done on time and scope.

We offer you:
- Work in international, geo-distributed team
- Additional benefits’ package

If you are self-motivated and passionate individual and you like to learn at a fast pace you will fit our team perfectly!
Interested candidates are requested to send their cvs in English to: v-ewatar@microsoft.com .