‘Cause that’s what we do here, and we’re hiring. To be more precise, we develop applications for a variety of clients, most in the healthcare sector. In addition to client work, we make imebase, a modern ajaxy software service for a healthcare market. So, you’ll get variety in our client work AND the satisfaction of contributing to a very polished product.
In addition to competitive wages, we also provide great perks:
- The company buys lunch for every employee, every day. We usually order in from a number of great Columbus restaurants, and dine out on Fridays.
- We’ve got a full 8-foot slate pool table right in the office. There’s nothing better after a hard day of work than enjoying a few games of pool.
- There’s a kegerator in the kitchen, so as you’re playing pool you can enjoy whatever beer we currently have on tap. Currently it’s a Hefeweizen brewed by the Elevator. We refill it with a new beer when it’s dry.
- $5 a month health insurance, along with a Health Savings Account.
- We pay for employee parking. Downtown parking can be a pain, so we just buy each employee a monthly pass to a lot right across the street from us.
- HTML/CSS — we try to be as standards-compliant as possible.
- Some server-side programming language. Innova is primarily a PHP shop, so great PHP programmers are welcome, but we can overlook it if you’re really good (and don’t mind learning PHP). Over the past few years, we’ve also started using Python and Ruby, so if you’re interested in working with something a little sexier than PHP, you can look forward to more of that down the road.
- SQL. We’ve got a fantastic DBA for the complicated stuff, but please know how to write a SELECT and a proper JOIN. We use MySQL and MS SQL Server.
As a final note, we’re OS agnostic. Most of us run OS X (on MacBook Pros with really big external monitors), but we have folks that work on Windows and Linux, so really its up to you. You’ll get to pick your rig if we hire you.
If you’re interested, check out the company blog, or browse around our Flickr group to see us in action. To apply, send your resume to jobs@innova-partners.com (mention Jon’s craigslist ad, so we know what’s working for us).

July 11th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I’d apply for this job, but “copious swearing” is nowhere in the description. I can’t drink beer AND program web apps without that stipulation. (P.S., I got here through Craigslist. Though, to be honest, “Do you like beer and pool?” sounds like the pitch for one of those bait-and-switch type websites.)
July 15th, 2008 at 9:41 am
No bait-and-switch Brenda! If our keg hadn’t emptied out last night, and it weren’t 10am, I’d be having a beer right now. I should probably work some before I head over for a game of 8-ball. And swearing isn’t something we’ll do on the blog or in polite company, so you’ll just have to take my word for it when I say that we do our fair share and then some.
Seriously, shoot your resume over to our jobs line, we pretty much all get those, and we’ll have a look. Your blog looks excellent (I’m a big geek myself), and if you can code some we’d be glad to at least shoot you a call!