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Software Engineer - DVN
Santa Monica, CA

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Airliners has been the leader in aviation photography since 1995 with tens of millions of monthly visitors. The site is currently in the process of a major rebuild with the hottest technologies like ElasticSearch, Redis, PHP, Vagrant, Akamai CDN, Puppet and much more. Want to be part of this revolutionary transformation and becoming a member of the world’s best aviation photography site? Then join us and you will be
responsible for building and implementing infrastructure tools, automating the deployment pipeline, and working with development teams to help build scalable software.
Our network of niche websites is made up of destinations where people can entertain their passions and share them with like-minded people. Whether it’s golf, dogs or hitting the hiking trails, the Demand Vertical Network delivers engaging content, immersive applications and inspiring community interactions. DVN serves over millions of page views per day and our servers process thousands of requests per second. Our team of developers ship code when ready and utilize agile development methodologies. Code is always changing and while we rely heavily on engineers to test their own code we utilize a combination of black box testing and heavy automation to minimize negative impact to the business.
If you're a talented full stack engineer, love the front end as well as the back end technologies, we love to have you to join our engineering team!
Responsibilities:
Work with a team of high level dedicated developers in the creation of our next generation highly scalable infrastructure.
Work with a product organization to help define features that will aid the business goals of Demand Media
Work to improve the efficiency and functionality of existing sites
Maintain responsibility to develop our high-profile web 2.0 social networking, content management and distribution systems using PHP.
Design and code new application features and functionality, writing API’s, scalability, and maintainability improvements.
Utilize knowledge about design patterns—MVC, ORM, and Factories, as well as understanding of front-end web technology including Javascript, HTML, CSS and AJAX to create social media platform.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent experience
5 years experience in designing, developing and delivering engaging user experiences on customer web sites and portals
Strong experience and advanced knowledge of PHP,MySQL, CSS3, HTML5, Javascript. Other technologies such as NodeJS, AngularJS, Python, MongoDB, and Redis (or other NoSQL) are a plus.
Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
Ability to develop, maintain and optimize secure and scalable multi-tier web applications in an agile environment.






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