A shameless plug for CNET… We’re hiring a few Senior Software Engineers for GameSpot.com, TV.com and Chow.com. Yes, that’s a Sr SE positions for each of those sites. We’re raising the bar and looking to bring on some powerful coders to expand the functionality of our sites. Here’s a brief list of the job skill requirements:
Must Have:
- Expert PHP skills, bonus for RoR
- 5-7 years of real world experience engineering web solutions for LAMP stacks
- Strong relational DB knowledge (table optimization, query optimization)
- Ability to prioritize and lead multiple simultaneous projects effectively
- Excellent understanding of OO software engineering concepts
- Ability to arhitect solid, scalable, extensible solutions for SE needs
- Excited by working on high-level design and architecture
- Comfortable mentoring junior engineers
- Expereince with formal release processes
- Strong verbal, written, analytical and communication skills
Bonus for:
- Admin experience with MySQL, Apache, SVN
- Background developing in a more structured language (C, C++, Java, etc)
- At least 3 years experience in high-traffic/high-availability web sites
- Strong UI experience with javaScript and AJAX using mootools or other JS Frameworks
- Experience with following technologies: Memcached, Smarty, SOLR, Lucene, Zend Framework
If you think you have what it takes, head over to our Jobs site and apply: https://careers.cnetnetworks.com/joblist.html
If you want to discuss the job in more detail first, please don’t hesitate to send me an
at michael[
]tougeron[
]cnet[
]com.
Posted under memcached, mysql, PHP, Web Development
This post was written by Michael Tougeron on May 29, 2008
