Skipjack Financial Services is an industry leader in providing innovative payment solutions to merchants across North America. Our offices are located in Cincinnati, OH and Halifax, NS. The Professional Services department offers merchants the expertise required to identify, develop, and deploy payment solutions that reduce their overall cost of processing payments.

To help support our rapid growth, Skipjack is looking for a Web Application Developer to play a key role at our office located in Halifax.

The candidates we are looking for will have the following qualifications:

Summary

• Application Developer to analyze, design, develop, test and install custom web based applications for use in real-world mission critical production environments 
• Must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment and have experience in developing web-based applications in  ASP.NET, ASP Classic, PHP
• A team player with strong verbal and written communication skills 
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or demonstrated experience 
• Ability to work well with aggressive deadlines and minimal supervision 
• Ability to manage & direct high-profile client communications and projects 
• Ability to learn new technologies rapidly

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and develop business applications; multi-tiered web and client server applications
• Work from detailed specifications to design, develop, implement, and maintain high-quality software solutions 
• Demonstrate understanding of business processes and how technology enables those processes
• Ability to work on and manage multiple projects at one time

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong knowledge of Web technologies (ASP.net, HTML, PHP, JavaScript)
• Database Skills (Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, Stored Procedures)
• Experience with Unix shell scripting (considered an asset)
• Working knowledge of WWW related products (IIS, Apache HTTP Server)
• Knowledge of MS Windows OS (user, administration and programming)
• Knowledge of Linux OS (user, administration and programming)
• Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft development and database tools 
• Ecommerce knowledge is a plus

Successful candidates must pass security and background checks.

Visit us on the web at www.skipjack.com.

Please submit a current resume along with your salary requirements to rlevings@skipjack.com.

Please quote competition number WAD0506-CB in your resume.