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[Joyce Schiffer]

Digital Media Company - New York City

Contact:  Joyce at taskmanagement.com

I have both Sr Positions as well as Jr/Mid-Level Positions available.

Salaries are highly competitive.  Excellent benefits/perks



Seeking individuals with a keen interest in creating well-crafted and
testable code. Candidates should be excited at the prospect of having

the fruits of their labor bring a modern media experience to millions of
readers and viewers. The Engineering Team is committed to

supporting an electronic publishing infrastructure that our readers and
creative partners prize. As a team we seek to embody a supportive

collegial environment while approaching software development with a focus on
reliably releasing great code. Our philosophy is that

advancing our individual capabilities as engineers is the surest path to
successfully building a terrific software enterprise for our company

and our audience.

Responsibilities:

● Implement features from the ground up:

○ requirements definition

○ software design

○ implementation

○ debugging

○ unit and functional testing

● Coordinate closely with tech team members

● Communicate productively with stakeholders in other departments

● Participate in the code review process

● Design, develop, and scale our APIs

● Optimize the application stack and response times

● mentor fellow team members

○ both on day-to-day tasks

○ as well as toward longer term growth as engineers

Qualifications:

● Excellent independent troubleshooting skills

● Strong programming skills, preferably with experience in PHP and
Javascript

● Experience with large data stores like MySQL and MongoDB and an
understanding of how to minimize query times

● Experience using caching layers (eg: redis, memcache, varnish)

● Understanding of CS concepts such as common data structures and
algorithms, profiling and optimization

● Experience with unit and functional testing

● Basic unix skills

Nice to haves:

● Worked with Akamai or other major CDN.

● Designed a public API from scratch.

● Designed command line tools for automating and exposing common tasks.

● Thorough understanding of web technologies: HTML, CSS, SASS

● Experience using PHP frameworks like Dwoo and Kohana

● Thorough knowledge of agile Methodologies, Git and Continuous Integration

Joyce Schiffer


<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joyce-schiffer-joyce-taskmanagement-com/16/106/
730> Linkedin Profile

(203) 438-9777 x113

(203) 241-2655 cell

Joyce <mailto:Joyce at taskmanagement.com> @taskmanagement.com







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