NYCPHP Meetup

[amit gupta]

New digital media start-up is looking for 2 Web Developers to
join our team in New York City. We are an exciting new startup that provides
an easy, fun-to-use place for folks to display and sell their digital 
creations, and see and purchase other folk's work as well. We have just 
launched a beta site, and are looking to expand. Our team is made up of highly 
motivated, energetic and passionate specialists with tons of experience in 
marketing, strategy, entertainment and internet/web technology. We also provide
an extremely open, inclusive, collaborative, flexible and fun work environment
where every idea is a good idea and every team member is highly valued and
respected. Plus you get to shape the environment by joining our exciting team 
at an early stage.
* This is an on-site position at our Greenwich Village, Manhattan location.
* US Citizens or US Permanent Residents only - sorry, no Visa sponsorship.
* Compensation will be salary + equity
* No recruiters please.

How to Apply
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Please email your resume to Amit Gupta (agupta10 at yahoo.com).
Responsibilities
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>> As a Web Developer, you will work on adding exciting new features to
   our website, involving multimedia (photos, videos, music). Our rapid and 
   iterative development cycle will require you to explore and learn new 
   technologies, solutions and services in the social media space, while giving 
   you the flexibility and opportunity to question the status quo and innovate 
   the website through your creativity and ideas.
>> Your projects will include improvements to existing features (built on a 
    Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP (LAMP) MVC architecture, as well as the addition of 
   completely new capabilities in the web 2.0, social networking and secure 
   payments area, and involving cloud computing (Amazon S3/EC2/Cloudfront).
   
>> You will also be expected to constantly improve the core architecture to 
   support our growth plans. This will require you to identify opportunities for
   tuning the existing code, as well as revise the architecture as required to
   ensure future development will be built in a secure and scalable manner.
Experience
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>> Prior development experience building large-scale high-traffic and secure 
   consumer websites, in the social media / social networking / Web 2.0 space, 
   preferably in a fast-paced startup environment
>> Extensive experience programming on the LAMP stack . Strong in PHP, MySQL, 
   Javascript frameworks such as JQuery, and AJAX
>> Experience integrating and working with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS, 
   Cloudfront) and other cloud-based services
>> Experience creating custom integrations with multiple open source and 
   commercial social / web 2.0 technologies (Wordpress, Forums, Wikis, Facebook 
   connect etc.)
>> Optimising for the Mobile web (Android, iPhone, iPad etc) is a plus
>> Experience with Agile development and source control using SVN or GIT
>> Comfortable working in a team environment, including offshore team members
Skills
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>> Languages: PHP5, Javascript, CSS, DHTML, Flash, HTML5
>> Database: Mysql - developing database schemas for high performance, 
   administration of the database to support multiple node deployments for 
   scalability)
>> Cloud: Integration with Amazon S3, EC2, RDS, Cloudfront, Encoding.com etc.
>> Positive, can-do attitude, great team player
Education
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>> BS/MS Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
Compensation
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>> Salary + Equity
How to Apply
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>> Please email your resume to Amit Gupta (agupta10 at yahoo.com).
>> No recruiters please.


      
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