PHP Developer at Vimeo

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Company
Vimeo
Location
New York, NY
Added on
31/08/2010
Keywords
web  php  mysql 

About the Company:

From the beginning, Vimeo was created by filmmakers and video creators who wanted to share their creative work, along with intimate personal moments of their everyday life. As time went on, like-minded people came to the site and built a community of positive, encouraging individuals with a wide range of video interests. We hope that you feel inspired to show us both your creative side as well as your friendly side. Our team is based in New York and Portland.

The ideal candidate:

Skills

  • 2+ years experience working on a high volume website
  • A history of working on modern web applications
  • An unhealthy obsession with building efficient, clean, and modular code and data structures
  • An understanding of the issues surrounding large-volume websites and scalability
  • An ability to work seamlessly between client-facing and backend code
  • Ingenuity to leverage all the tools at your disposal to eke out every last bit of performance and build the best user experience possible
  • A history of working in a cache-heavy environment and an innate understanding of issues surrounding cache
  • A desire to be personally responsible for production-level code (and the willingness to answer 3am phone calls to fix your mistakes)
  • A preoccupation with staying on top of industry trends and technologies

Technical Requirements

  • Expertise in PHP5, MySQL and memcache required
  • Expertise with MVC methodologies required
  • Expertise with HTML/CSS experience required
  • Expertise with Javascript required, along with experience using a JS framework (we use MooTools)
  • Experience with ActiveRecord-style ORM required
  • Experience with SPL a major plus
  • Experience with Solr/Lucene a major plus
  • Comfortable working with in a CLI environment

Apply Here: http://www.apply-for-job.net/c/jobclick.cfm?site=2857&job=6810485

Job Description and responsibilities:

From the beginning, Vimeo was created by filmmakers and video creators who wanted to share their creative work, along with intimate personal moments of their everyday life. As time went on, like-minded people came to the site and built a community of positive, encouraging individuals with a wide range of video interests. We hope that you feel inspired to show us both your creative side as well as your friendly side. Our team is based in New York in the IAC building in a casual, creative and fun environment with free snacks available all day.

Opportunity: PHP Developer Location: New York City

Responsibilities

  • Implement major new features and feature improvements
  • Identify and solve compatibility issues
  • Work closely with the Product and Design/UX team to steadily improve user experience and the feature set
  • Work closely with the Backend team to profile and optimize code for performance

To apply:

Apply Here: http://www.apply-for-job.net/c/jobclick.cfm?site=2857&job=6810485

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