Culture Defines Careers at NFi Studios

Below are the positions open at NFi Studios. To apply for a position email careers@nfistudios.com with a resume and cover letter attached. 

PHP Developer

Orlando, Florida based leader in providing web technologies connecting industry and member communities, is seeking a talented, bright and eager PHP Developer. As a part of our team, you will work to create, maintain, and improve creative website applications.  You will be developing application code in Zend Framework.  The applicant should be able to work and resolve development issues as they arise, independently, in a fast pace work environment, and be able to meet deadlines.

Necessary skills:

  • PHP 5+
  • MySQL 5+
  • Apache 2.x and associated modules
  • Javascript (Prototype and jQuery Frameworks)
  • (X)HTML/CSS
  • OOD/OOP
  • Strong knowledge of MVC architecture

Preferred Skills:

  • Zend Framework Experience
  • Doctrine ORM Experience
  • Drupal 5/6
  • Strong understanding of optimization
  • Smarty Template Language
  • LAMP Administration
  • Cross Browser compatibility issues
  • Web Service integrations (RPC, SOAP, REST)
  • Lucene Search

You will:

  • Report to and work directly with the Director of Development and Project Manager
  • Manage maintenance accounts of large clients
  • Communicate with team about implementing design and functionality within new websites
  • Coordinate with Project Manager on multiple tasks throughout the workday
  • Get first hand experience of the development and maintenance process from client meetings, brainstorming, coding and finally delivering a finished website

Technical Business Systems Analyst 

Orlando, Florida based leader in providing web technologies connecting industry and member communities, is seeking a talented, energetic and creative individual for a hands-on technical role in a fun and creative environment to support our onsite development team with client data conversion and the development and delivery of components integrated with clients’ backend systems. Ideal candidate combines experience with very large datasets (MySQL or similar), web development technologies (Web-Services, PHP or similar programming language), and business understanding to mine data and automate workflows focused on identifying anomalies and errors in our clients business transactions.

Essential Functions

  • Perform complex data mining and aggregation; commingle multiple datasets to develop a streamlined, efficient representation of transaction lifecycles.
  • Collaborate with business process owners to identify opportunities; define business requirements, design solutions to map to and in support of new or existing business processes and / or workflows,
  • Rapidly implement technical solutions designed to maximize operational efficiency and productivity.
  • Perform Data validation and massaging to ensure accuracy and quality of data
  • Large volume data conversion, data cleansing, production report generation, and upholding scheduled data delivery standards.
  • Full life cycle project ownership from analysis to development to delivery of solutions.
  • Contribute to documentation initiatives as needed
  • Contribute to group knowledge and best practices
  • Interacts with client staff and other end users, other analysts and management, Corporate Functions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities  

 Technical

  • Advanced SQL skills – SQL Query Development and Performance Tuning (DBA Experience also helpful, preferably MySQL)
  • Intermediate PHP or similar programming skills.
  • Proficiency with large volume datasets (100 million+ row tables)
  • Data warehouse experience a plus
  • UML 2.0 Diagramming
  • Object Oriented Design
  • Experience with SaaS based solution delivery a plus

Non-Technical

  • Strong analytical/problem solving skills
  • Strong communication skills, ability to translate end user needs into an IT solution
  • Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail is critical to the success of all candidates.
  • Ability to recognize inefficiencies in processes (operational or technical) and the ability to design solutions to address these issues.
  • Minimal travel required (less than 5%)
  • Knowledge of Association or Non-Profit industry a plus

You will:

  • Report to and work directly with the Project Manager
  • Develop detailed requirements and documentation for implementation of client needs.
  • Provide workload estimates for both pricing and capacity planning purposes.
  • Communicate with team about implementing design and functionality within new websites
  • Coordinate with Project Manager on multiple tasks throughout the workday
  • Facilitate the transition of clients from sales to development.
  • Develop specified features from time to time.
  • Have fun working in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
If available - provide links to previous works and examples of your capabilities along with a brief description of what you've done on those projects.

Please send resume, and inquire about job at jobs@nfistudios.com

Account / Implementation Manager 

NFi Studios is in search of an experienced account / implementation manager.  Local and national candidates will be considered. Please review responsibilities and benefits listed below. Do you thrive in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic and creative work environment? Then this opportunity is for you. 

  • Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; and implementing change request orders.

  • Proactively manage customer centric communications surrounding business requirements, service offering, project deliverables and service quality, to ensure that the customer’s expectations are met.

  • Conduct project kickoffs, establish team communications, and facilitate meetings

  • Clearly communicate project goals, roles, responsibilities both internally and externally

  • Communicate customer status and escalate concerns, and issues to management as needed

  • Manage customer issues for priorities, escalation, and resolution

  • Provide weekly updates, follow-through and exceptional customer service to clients

  • Provide training to internal operations and clients on delivered applications and services

  • Update and maintain product knowledge base for internal and customer/partner reference

  • Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Sales Executive

NFi Studios is in search of experienced software/technology sales executives. Local and national candidates will be considered. Please review responsibilities and benefits listed below. Do you thrive in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic and creative work environment? Then this opportunity is for you. 

  • Proven sales success - a record of exceeding quota consistently

  • Solid experience in selling software/technology (specifically SaaS) or other related services

  • Experience in associations and/or non-profits industries

  • Contagiously positive - Born prospector - somebody who's happy to get on the phone

  • Ambitious is good: climbing over others to get to your goal is bad. You should know the difference