PHP Programmer, Solar Power Industry, China

  China

• Other Cities in China: 
Wuhu

Term: Not Applicable 
Length of Position: Open Paid Contract or 6 month Internship
Dates: inquire for dates

Description: We are a fast growing renewable energy information company with offices in UK and China. Our technical team consists of an IT manager and 2 PHP programmers - and the team has a very large backlog of work (hence the need for more manpower).

We need an experienced programmer to join us in China. Ideally we would like someone to stay for many years, but we can accept a 12-month fixed contract for an expert who doesn't want to be away from home for too long.

ENF has been operating for 4 years, and we now have 30 staff. Our company has the worlds most popular resource for information about companies in the solar power industry, we have a team of people making market research reports profiling the companies in the industry and we have a trade team assisting Western companies to purchase from Chinese manufacturers.

The job is in a city called Wuhu, which has low pollution and has less crime than England.

Job Details:

The job will be to work in ENF's IT department, developing our multi-language PV directory making new advanced modules for the website and improving our custom-built back-end systems.

Highlights: Further Information about Wuhu

It is important for us that our new staff are stable and happy, so we would like to point out a few potential negatives to potential candidates:

- There is little night life and bars in the city as Chinese people prefer to drink in restaurants. This means that people who like to go out drinking a lot will be disappointed with the social options.
- We are based in real China. Unlike Beijing and Shanghai, there are very few foreigners in Wuhu so if you just want to hang around with Europeans only there won't be much choice.

On the positive side the city is well developed and clean. There are some global supermarket chains in the city showing food labels in English, and large department stores which make shopping easy.

Although there is only one English-language TV channel, the company has a DVD library with over 1000 DVDs for the staff to borrow.

Qualifications: The candidate doesn't need to be able to speak any Chinese as all employees are fluent in English.

We would like candidates with strong knowledge/abilities in:
- PHP
- Javascript
- MySQL
- CSS

We want someone with strong PHP skills that can work on fairly difficult programming tasks without needing assistance from the other programmers (we want a candidate with enough skills to be giving advice all the time, not needing to ask for advice).

Note: We do not want any applications from Chinese nationals at this time.

Cost in US$: Contact us for more information

Although the salary is not competitive compared to UK jobs, this can be a very nice way to ride out the recession working in a completely new culture and helping to save the world at the same time (our free directory is the best in the world and helps the solar power industry be more profitable).

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to European Participants.

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview Required

ENF, Ltd.'s Mission Statement: At ENF, we believe that the best way to advance the industry is to educate it by helping companies to find new customers or more suitable suppliers they would otherwise have not known, helping to better understand customers and suppliers side-by-side to enable more effective choices and improved interaction... Each and every one of our services go one step further than our competition in detail, expertise and vision. ENF is Energy Focus. We're accelerating the renewable energy industry by globalizing photovoltaic knowledge.

Year Founded: 2005