about // Subcity Web Team is Recruiting

Subcity Radio is looking to add a couple of developers to its web developer team.

Development is done in the context of Subcity's completely custom CMS written in PHP. The entire site is more than 20,000 lines of PHP code and relies on a MySQL database with over 1.6 million records.

Currently we have projects in the following areas: Data Mining, Social Networking Integration, Integrating of Artist Discographies and the implementation of a 'you might like ...' Smart Show Suggestions Algorithm. Additionally we have a major restyling of the website

The Subcity website gets over 13,000 individual visitors a month. The changes you make to the website will have a huge impact on the station at this critical time as the trend of listeners turning away from FM broadcast to Internet radio continues.

Subcity Radio is a registered charity and none of the 250 weekly contributors or team get paid. What we can offer you is the opportunity to gain real world experience both in terms of hard job requirements, for example minimum 1 years experience with PHP & MySQL, as well as the intangible requirements like communicating with nontechnical people and working within a team.

Last year the Subcity web team were nominated for a Student Radio Award for their work on the catchily titled ‘A (dynamic, meta-data based) system for finding something new to listen to’ and taken down to London for the awards ceremony.

If you're up for some challenging yet rewarding work as part of a vibrant team of geeks and creative types and are competent in any of the following skills email webmaster@subcity.org with a CV. Deadline: October 12th, 5pm.

Primary Skills:
Linux
Apache
PHP *
MySQL

Secondary Skills:
Python
CSS
Javascript
SVN

* Candidates with no PHP experience but a proficient in other similar web based languages such as ASP or a depth of experience with object oriented languages and a willingness to learn would also be acceptable as well.

Posted at 00:48, 7th October 2010