Jr. Software Engineer (Los Angeles)
August31
Do you want to be part of something bigger and be early on the ground floor? Do you love to play and share mobile games? If yes, then keep reading...We are seeking a contract Jr. Software Engineer with a desire to build robust, scalable, and exciting web and mobile applications. You will be part of a team that works on diverse, site-spanning projects involving our mobile and client platforms, video, web services, security, user-to-user interaction, and more. We desire someone who is comfortable writing clean and efficient code, and has passionate opinions about user interface and interaction.
This may lead to a Full Time positon.
Responsibilities:
Participate in technical design efforts of our Spazzmania App ensuring that the design is well documented and meets scalability and performance requirements
Participate in the implementation (e.g., coding, testing, debugging) effort
Analyze and research data analytics
Build large scale web applications for desktop and mobile
Familiarity with (and excitement about!) recommendation engine and the search/information retrieval space in general
Qualifications:
2-4 years of experience with the LAMP stack.
2-3years of experience with a well-known MVC framework (CakePHP strongly preferred).
Solid understanding of REST APIs.
Strong experience with PHP
Strong Object Oriented Programming skills
Expert knowledge of SQL databases, web servers and performance optimization
Excellent verbal and written skills, with proven ability to communicate complex ideas and to design and document projects in a clear, concise way
Results-oriented and proactive with proven leadership skills
Linux/Unix experience is essential
Experience with JSON & XML.
Skilled in setting up a LAMP environment on virtual private server platforms.
Experience with version control systems such as Subversion, Git
Self motivated and committed to quality while having respect for the sense of urgency that exists at all startups
Education and Nice To Have's:
BS and/or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Recent experience building highly scalable enterprise system a big plus
Have worked with affiliate networks
Familiarity with programming for mobile platforms and/or other JSON APIs
About US:
Spazzmania is an iPad app discovery engine that finds games you wanna play on the App Store. Spazzmania combines the gaming research, video reviews and social networking elements all in one place.
www.spazzmania.com
- Location: Los Angeles
- Compensation: TBD
- This is a part-time job.
- This is a contract job.
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