Electric Function, Inc. is looking to contract a PHP developer and support technician to add to our small 2-person team.  This position is a part-time telecommuting position open to web freelancers or contract web developers who are looking to add $2500 to $6250 per month to their income by playing a key role in a small but growing web software business!

Your main activities will be:

• Learning about our software (all built on CodeIgniter).
  • Hero Framework - CMS, web framework built on CodeIgniter
  • Membrr - subscription billing for ExpressionEngine
  • OpenGateway - multi-gateway billing server and API
  • EE Donations - donation plugin for ExpressionEngine
• Supporting licensees of our software products (billing and CMS products written in PHP).
  • Answering sales/support questions
  • Referring users to our extensive knowledgebase, creating new KB articles.
  • Debugging PHP issues on the users' servers, when necessary.
  • Managing licenses (e.g., adding/removing domains from a license).
• Taking on custom development projects for clients.
  • Quoting projects.
  • Performing the custom work on time and to high code and usability standards.
  • Following up with changes and tweaks where necessary.
• Communicating
  • Updating the internal project tracker.
  • Keeping clients informed of custom project statuses.
  • Responding promptly to emails during the workday.

Compensation

Developers are compensated based on a profit sharing arrangement that compensates for support time (which varies from week to week) and for the custom work taken on.

It is expected that you will earn $35,000 to $70,000 per year, depending on the amount of work you can take on.

Position Notes

• Telecommute - Work from home (or anywhere else).
• You will track your own time and submit a time sheet every 2 weeks.
• There will be 15 hours of paid training before you begin.

Requirements

In order to fill this role, you must:

• Be an end-to-end web developer with experience and skill in HTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, simple Apache server configuration (e.g., how to use .htaccess).
• Have used the CodeIgniter PHP framework in multiple previous projects.
• Have experience with clients and project management.
• Speak English well, and speak professionally with clients at all times.
• Have some sales experience.
• Not have a full-time job (i.e., you are a freelancer or contract web developer).
• Be a strong, independent worker!