Overview

The Ning Application Engineering team is a small, flat, and highly productive team of people building software that matters to millions of people in their daily lives. We use PHP and Javascript on top of the Ning Platform to deliver an extremely friendly and infinitely customizable experience to Network Creators on Ning.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that Your Own Social Network for Anything is as fast as possible. Then push to make it faster.
• Be the performance expert across all of our application development efforts - define the goals and framework for ensuring we are always getting faster as a service.
• Work closely with all members for the application development team to optimize the performance of each component and/or feature.
• Perform regular architecture and design reviews for new and existing features from a performance standpoint.
• Monitor overall site performance using internal and external tools. Develop tools as needed.
• Identify and own performance issues, design and develop code to address these issues.
• Identify performance hotspots and risks. Develop short and long term plans to address these issues before they impact growth

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science.
• Direct and extensive PHP and/or cross browser web development experience.
• Knowledge of PHP internals, Apache, and system profiling tools.
• Deep knowledge of how web pages and their elements are processed and rendered across all major browsers and their versions.
• Extensive experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience programming scalable web applications and considerably improving their performance.
• Knowledge of web services, and agile development methodologies desired.
• Experience working on websites with very high transaction volumes.
• In-depth knowledge of network programming, and HTTP protocol.
• Recent hands-on experience with some script and shell programming (e.g. Perl and Shell).
• Personality, comfort and desire to be a leader.
• Curiosity. You've created a social network on Ning. You dive into a bit more detail and are struck by the Ning Content Store and why we chose that architecture. You have ideas on how to make the site better and faster. You have lots of technical questions for us.

Please send your resume to yoonie@ning.com

Overview

Our Application Developer group is a small, flat organization populated with people who are passionate about creating beautiful software used by millions of people in their daily lives. We use PHP and Javascript on top of the Ning Platform REST APIs to deliver an extremely friendly and infinitely customizable experience to Network Creators on Ning.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in designing and executing new features on Ning's "killer app" - Your Own Social Network for Anything. Projects may include work on photo sharing, video sharing, discussions, blogging, events, OpenSocial applications, and wikis features as well as new features entirely.
• Work in rapid 2-4 week development cycles.
• Collaborate closely with design and product management to ensure that the feature achieves the goals laid out for it.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in CS or equivalent experience.
• Experience with PHP, AJAX, and HTML/CSS.
• Java or C++ or object oriented design experience.
• Experience programming scalable web applications.
• Knowledge of web services, and agile development methodologies desired.
• Know your way around Flash.
• Curiosity. You've created a social network on Ning. You dive into a bit more detail and are struck by the Ning Content Store and why we chose that architecture. You have lots of technical questions for us.

Please send your resume to yoonie@ning.com

Quaifications:

• 2+ Years Solid PHP Development
• Experience with high traffic web design and deployment.
• Experience with deployment of new software release to live servers.
• Database programming design and programming experience.
• Experience with web application optimization techniques and implementation,
• Experience with web page design and layout.
• Ability to design new implementations as well as maintain and enhance existing code.
• Able to work both is a team and as a solo developer.
• Knowledge of versioned software development best practices.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Proficiency in XHTML, CSS and Javascript.
• Knowledge of XHTML standards and validation.
• Knowledge ofbrowser compatibility issues.
• Good understanding and ability to create and use Linux environment tools and scripting.
• Comfortable working in a rapid development and mission critical environment.
• Zend experience a big plus.

SKILLS:

• PHP,
• Linux,
• MySql,
• Apache,
• Model View Controller

OTHER CAPABILITIES:

This position requires the ability to function successfully in both team and independent work environments.
Candidate must be self-motivated and comfortable working in an energetic startup environment.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Javaground is an innovative startup in the mobile video game industry, headquartered in Southern California with a studio in Italy. The company offers a best of breed suite of tools to significantly accelerate and enhance the development from conception to final testing of an application. The software development and porting solution we have created is the best available in the industry. Javaground also develops and ports mobile video games for leading customers around the world. Javaground addresses an ever growing critical industry need, enabling developers, publishers and aggregators to cost effectively develop high-quality games for the J2ME and BREW platform.

COMPENSATION:

Salary determined on experience. Medical, dental and vision benefits. Generous stock option plan.
PLEASE EMAIL RESUMES TO CHERYL@JAVAGROUND.COM

Us:
We're Tubefilter, a Los Angeles based startup in the IPTV space. We're building something '" but we can't tell you what it is unless you apply. So send us your resume already.

You:
Ninja Coder

Your Primary Skills:
PHP, MySQL, Ninja like ability to build and deploy awesome applications online

Your Secondary Skills/Interests/Passing Familiarities:

• (a mix of some of the following would be nice, with stuff at the
• beginning of the list being most important)
• Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, front-end development, Information
• architecture, wire-framing, mobile platform development, C/C++

Absolutely Required Knowledge:

Expert in PHP and MySQL Databases
• LAMP Platform Expert
• Subversion (SVN)
• Expert in HTTP, SSL, DNS, TCP/IP, XML, JSON, and RSS
• Experience building and deploying on Facebook, MySpace, and OpenSocial platforms
• Experience building Internet-scale distributed server systems and delivering them into a 24Ã-7, high-availability production environment.
• Experience in Design Patterns, Object Oriented Design and Programming, Software Development life cycle process and procedures.

Not required but a bonus: Passion for server administration

We don't care about school. Your technical ability and experience is all that counts around here.

Must:

• Like to SCRUM.
• Be curious.
• Love the startup environment.
• Code elegantly.
• Work well in a team environment.
• Be capable of working independently on dev but work together with rest of team on overall strategy and features.
• Like waffles (we make them together every morning) and Wii.

What you should send us:
Links to web apps you have built (and your CV). If you don't have any, send us your resume and a good idea of why you will help us build a web application. Send us a list of the blogs you read, your top three favorite web shows, and some links that demonstrate your social media footprint.

Salary Range: Negotiable, based on experience.
Permits: GreenCard or other US Work permit needed

Schematic, one of the nation's leading interactive agencies, is seeking PHP developers (all levels) to join our Open Source Platforms Group in New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; and Atlanta, GA.

Schematic provides both design and technology solutions for a variety of platforms including the PC, mobile and television. Our mission is to create simple yet powerful solutions to our clients' business challenges. Some of our clients include Dell, Target, Disney, Nokia, Comcast, Intel, MTV, and Motorola. You can read more about our company at http://www.schematic.com/.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of solid software development experience using PHP
• 1+ years experience with object-oriented programming and PHP 5
• Experience writing and optimizing SQL queries for MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

Pluses:

• Use of source code management tools, such as Subversion
• Experience implementing common security practices
• Zend Framework 1.0+
• Model-View-Controller design and implementation
• Data modeling
• Database stored procedures, functions (Oracle PL/SQL, MySQL functions, etc.)
• Design and/or maintenance of highly-trafficked applications
• Unit testing practices
• UML diagramming
• Integrating with third-party vendors
• Release management and deployment
• Knowledge of systems administration and design

For consideration, please forward your resume to ospgjobs@schematic.com.

The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.

In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.

How Big Can You Think?

Would you like to touch the lives of millions of people, while working in a technically challenging environment? Are you fascinated by what it takes to build a highly efficient and scalable web application infrastructure that forms the backbone for various search applications used by hundreds of millions of users every day? If yes, then here is your chance!

We are looking for a motivated Senior Engineer/Architect to join the Yahoo! Search engineering team. In this position you will use your strong technical background to design and develop the next generation frontend platform for Yahoo! Search. This platform will provide a flexible and scalable base for building new and cool products for search.yahoo.com and its associated verticals.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS is Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of industry experience in large scale web application development
• Expert level knowledge in PHP
• Experience with Apache, HTTP, Perl, XML, C/C++
• Knowledge of AJAX/JS, HTML/DHTML, CSS and other client-side technologies is a strong plus
• Development experience on UNIX platforms
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Fast learner and team player

Interested applicants should submit their resume to Shawn Cartwright at shawncar [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.