The Idea People

Charlotte, NC | Posted: 5 years ago

Job Description

TIP is a digital transformation agency and creates awesome products consumers and businesses love. These amazing and beautiful platforms help to transform peoples lives to produce a memorable connection to a product or service that grows over time. Were geeky, creative, techie as all get out, and inspiring.

For the past 25 years, there has been an exciting demand for what we do. Partly because we only do custom work, partly because we are really good at what we do, and partly because were passionate about making the world smarter and friendlier.

This is a full-time role in our Charlotte office that overlooks our amazing city. If youre interested in playing the role in accelerating user growth, please read on.

A large part of our daily mission is beyond codingits brainpower, thinking of ways to do what we do better, how can we be more efficient, how can we add that extra 1% that makes the difference between delivering a good project and great one.

We are responsible for a customers journey from the first time they see a product, through the just-in-time experience. Its the strategy, research, creativity, functionality, data, and analytics.

The technology that we produce must be perfect, instantly-accessible, and immediately gratifying. We need your new ideas, technical wizardry and persistence to continue to achieve greatness.

Requirements

• Strong development skills in an object-oriented language such as PHP or Python. Knowledge of common object-oriented principles such as classes, objects, inheritance and encapsulation.
• Ability to write clean and well-documented code that can be easily picked up by another developer
• Experience with common database principles such as inserts/updates, deletes, subqueries and joins or experience working with an ORM for development
• Has experience integrating with modern REST API systems
• Has used version control (git) for maintaining project(s)
• Comfort in navigating the Linux terminal
• Is proficient with writing JavaScript, writing AJAX requests and handling JSON data, binding events, using plugins, and other common frontend tasks
• Can write semantic HTML and knows CSS. You should also know how to use media queries and understand mobile-first responsive development.

Huge +++ for:

• Working with MVC frameworks such as Django or Laravel. We have several ongoing projects built with the Django framework and hope to use Laravel in the future.
• Development on WordPress themes and custom plugins, including for some websites that use WooCommerce. If youve built a WordPress theme or written custom hooks, then you should be able to jump into most of these projects.
• Using CSS flexbox (and other modern features like CSS Grid) ESome interest in any JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue is a plus.
• Some knowledge of virtual machine technology (what it is, how it differs from physical equipment)
• Some familiarity with writing automated tests to cover new code that you've written.

Benefits

• Awesome salary we pay great salaries for great people.
• Full health insurance we pay 100% of your health insurance.
• Paid vacations from Day 1 you get 12 paid days off your first year to clear your mind and stretch your limbs. There's more after that.
• Multiple company vacation days lets say that we like to take time off as a company throughout the year. Like we close the week of July 4, and from Christmas through New Years and several other times during the year, including company-paid holidays.
• Work-Life balance is tilted in your favor with all of these days off, who wouldnt be happy! Plus we keep our work within the normal 40 hours from Monday to Friday.
• All Mac laptops hey, were creative and techy. We love new technology, new platforms, new tools, and new shiny things.
• Standing, sitting, perching and lounging workspace we just bought all new workspace furnishings, gizmos, and tech.
• Gorgeous modern loft offices were in the Carolina School Supply Building just 2 blocks from BOA Stadium. Were so close that we can hear Cam Newton scream "Keep Pounding!".
• Winning culture were 25 years young and we love to win. Were quirky, funny, amazing and talented. Our clients love us.
• Grow into digital transformation yep, its the next big thing and were ahead of the pack by a long shot. Learn first-hand as we do. Exciting.
• Shared job profits yep, were that generous, but we believe that you should share in the job profits if you helped get us there.
• Supportive and caring team we hope that you will like working with us as much as we like working with us.
• Team dining experiences ok, we like to eat out as a group and the company pays for it.
• Continued learning we encourage you to grow your career, so well pay for you to learn new things that we want to do.
• Mentoring our senior people know a thing or two about a thing or two. Well empower you to move out of your comfort zone so you can grow up to be just like them. Plus, you can teach us a thing or two as well.

Every person we hire is very important to all of us at TIP. In fact, we all take part in the hiring process. It's a team effort on everything we do.

We do not work with recruiters, freelancers, or off-shore companies. All work is made in-house in Charlotte.