Today it's been exactly six months ago since I started working for Yahoo! Europe in the London office. I can honestly say this is the best job I've ever had in many ways. Interesting work, lots of fun and an extremely challenging environment make it an absolute joy to go to work every day.

The web development team here at Yahoo! London has the most skilled and passionate people I've ever found in any company. And in addition to that, everyone is always helpful and ready to jump in when another developer is stuck with a problem which results in an environment in which there's a lot to learn. I don't think I've ever learned more stuff in the workplace than I did while working here at Yahoo!.

I landed in an absolutely great team (the EU Frontpage team which deals with all yahoo.com frontpages in Europe) and we're doing extremely interesting things.

The atmosphere is extremely laid back and the London pub culture is sprinkled all over the team. Having an office right in the middle of the pub district helps this as well of course!

Wanna join?

Now here's the good news! If the above sounds interesting to you, we're looking for no less than six new web developers to join this magnificent team! So if you're a passionate web developer with good all round skills then why don't you drop me a line so I can get you in touch with the people dealing with new acquisitions? Here's what we're basically looking for in a web developer:

• Hand coded (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You should be able to provide evidence of progressive enhancement techniques, clear separation of structure, presentation and behaviour layers in your front-end code, including use of unobtrusive JavaScript.
• Experience with programming in PHP
• Expert knowledge of modern web standards, cross browser-development, client and server side performance optimisation techniques, accessibility and search engine optimisation
• UNIX (BSD/Linux) knowledge and experience with version control systems such as CVS and Subversion
• Experience in developing web applications with rich client interfaces using AJAX, drag and drop, and other DOM Scripting techniques.
• Experience with Web Services

If you can throw in some extra knowledge about internationalisation, XML/XSLT, Perl, Microformats or other web related technologies it would be even better!

So if you're interested in a job as a member of the most amazing web development team in Europe then don't hesitate and let me know about it!