Yii Guru backend programmer

Hi there, I am the lead programmer on an exciting educational web application. I myself have programmed the entire app including our angular.js, html, js and css front-end - and your php yii 1.14 backend We are looking for a few Yii gurus to help us with our Yii Backend. Our Yii backend has the Restful Yii plugin installed. We DO NOT use Yii for any front-end activity. We need a few Yii gurus to help us with Backend programming You will be initially hired to help us optimize our search api. If you prove that you can do this, we will pass you more contracts. We have an awesome workflow using the Jira Issue Tracker, and Hipchat. Once hired, you will be working with us using: 1) You will be given a username and password for Jira Issue Tracker, and issues will be assigned to you. 2) You will need to download hipchat, and set up an account as all correspondence will be entered in hipchat, and through the comment form on the issues you have been assigned 3) You will be working with me via chat/voice, and working off of our codebase which you will have installed on your local machine. 4) We will provide you with a Vagrant file so that you can run a virtual ubuntu server on your local machine with our entire development environment set up and running. It is as easy as a) installing vagrant, then typing "Vagrant up" - this will set up a complete virtual box with our entire app on your machine to develop on. If you can help us, we will provide constant work as we move forward developing our app. 5) You will be expected to sign an NDA 6) We expect that you have solid experience in Php, Yii, Rest Applications, and some javascript - and can show us a portfolio of your work. 7) You should have a knowledge of how to do yii migrations, and the basic's of yii. 8) You are NOT a recruiter, or a project manager - you are a designer/developer! 9) You are not taking this project to Learn Yii - you Already know Yii well. The project will commence next Wednesday.