We’re looking for a back-end application developer with at least 2 years of experience to round out our team. You’re welcome to join us here at our Chicago office, but if you’d like to stay in that beautiful ‘other’ place you currently live, that’s fine too. (US citizens only please.)

We Are Mammoth builds a variety of web applications including financial modeling tools, e-commerce portals and HIPAA compliant data backup services. You will be equal parts coder and communicator because we believe the best way to get work done is to connect the folks doing the work (you!) with the folks requesting it (our clients). You’ll be spending the lion share of your time working with your developer peers on an ongoing project platform used for a number of our end clients, all part of a single project family. This requires a aptitude for working with legacy code, improving it and disseminating to other projects and peers.

We attend and speak at web design and development conferences around the country. We’re avid developers, designers, writers, and thinkers. One of our partners just authored a book on web developer life –The Developer’s Code. If you read it, you’ll get a sense of the values and approach here at We Are Mammoth.

Here are some things you might be doing in a given week:

• Investigate and resolve 15-20 reported bugs.

• Make updates to a SQL server database schema using our in-house data modeling tool, X2O.

• Provide well-written messages to a client in Basecamp about the current status and upcoming roadmap for a particular site implementation.

• Routinely provide detailed insight to a client for into how you’ve implemented a piece of logic that they’ve specified, to resolve a bug.

• Manage merging bug fix commits from SVN back to a central codebase. This sometimes includes manual merging when codebases begin to diverge.

• Work with a project manager to estimate additional work for an existing application.

• Work with a front-end developer to integrate server-side models into an HTML/JS front-end using either traditional MVC or client-side frameworks like jQuery.

• Gain more business domain knowledge of how benefits and retirement plans work, as you continue to implement more code for a client. You’ll use this knowledge to become even more productive and valuable for future projects.

• Perform scheduled code, database schema and data migrations to various environments.

• Respond to issues discovered in a dynamic and static scan of existing code bases.