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Welcome to the SparkFun developer employment application.

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  OFFICIAL JOB DESCRIPTION: PHP DEVELOPER
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 *
 * PHP Developer
 * 
 * SparkFun Electronics is hiring developers!  Check out our website,
 * www.sparkfun.com, to get an idea of who we are / what we do.  More
 * below...
 * 
 * About the company:
 *
 * - We're a small/medium company that's very young (only 7.7 years old) and
 *   growing very fast.
 * - Despite our growth we remain relaxed and fun.
 * - We throw lots of parties, have dogs on staff, and our break room has a
 *   tweeting keggerator.
 * - This place is like an invention shop.  Curious new toys are being built
 *   all the time.
 * - We like to host unique events like our annual Autonomous Vehicle
 *   Competition or this fall's Antimov: a competition for robots with
 *   extravagant self-destruct mechanisms.
 *
 * About the position:
 *
 * - You'll assist an established core of developers to build new features for
 *   the SparkFun website and our internal content management system, all of
 *   which is of custom design.
 * - You'll work closely with other SparkFun employees to build tools to make
 *   their lives easier.  Grateful employees have been known to show gratitude
 *   with candy.
 * - Skilled coders are encouraged to contribute ideas for architectural
 *   changes, not just mindlessly crank out code.  You'll be proud of what you
 *   get to build here.
 * - Work environment is definitely not soul-crushing, unlike many corporate
 *   shops that pay the big bucks.
 * - Benefits:
 *   + HSA/FSA health plan
 *   + 401k matching up to 4%
 *   + Eco pass
 *   + 2 weeks paid vacation to start, 3 weeks after 1 full year of employment
 *   + Yearly continuing education/professional development fund
 * 
 * Skills you have that will make me want to hire you:
 *
 * - Proficiency with PHP/MySQL (specifically within an MVC framework)
 * - Proficiency with HTML/CSS/JavaScript
 * - Experience building AJAX-powered web applications
 *
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HOW TO APPLY:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Look at the README in all four directories and follow the instructions.
3. Send details on where to find your hosted repo to
   it_hacker_application@sparkfun.com.

If you aren't comfortable applying in public, you're welcome to require
authentication, host as a private repository on GitHub, or otherwise obscure
your repo.

Should you choose to keep you repo private you may add us as collaborators.
Please add all of the following email addresses:

  cclark@sparkfun.com
  brennen@sparkfun.com
  ben@sparkfun.com
  caseyd@sparkfun.com

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