Intern Wanted

Blue Webs Africa is looking for a highly-motivated, intelligent, and skilled individual to join its team as a Graphics Designer.

He/She will be reporting to the Chief Business Director.

The job requires the ability to build stable, secure, and attractive web applications based on predetermined specifications, but also creativity to come up with and ability to execute one’s own ideas that will further our goals as a company.

We are looking for someone with the self-discipline to get work done in a timely manner without constant oversight.

We’ll also be looking for an eagerness to collaborate with a small team of highly-motivated people.

Candidates must be able to furnish portfolios of their work, or at least several links to websites that they have created or made substantial contributions to.

Responsibilities

Develop custom web designs using Photoshop, Corel Draw, or Fireworks and JQuery plugins.
Help to architect client projects under the guidance of our chief technical officer.
Prepare project specifications documents, features documents, feature documents and project plans.
Develop new products and extend existing ones.
Participate in all phases of Web application and websites development projects, from requirements gathering to deployment.
Rapidly develop new features based on user feedback.
Work on weekly and bi-weekly deadlines

Required Minimum experience and qualifications

Hands-on web development experience.
Basic programming experience using PHP/MySQL required.
Strong JQuery , CSS, AJAX experience.
Experience customizing and further developing and hacking open source software.
Bsc Computer science (you don’t necessarily need a CS degree (although clearly, that helps), just be smart).
Interest in feature development to accommodate user needs
Appreciation of cross-browser compatibility and web standards
Other Desirable characteristics/Bonus Skills
A focus on security is a plus.
Experience with shell scripting, Perl, Python, Frameworks is a plus.
Web Design skills a big plus