Senior Backend Developer
Boxee - New York, NY
This position is essential to create and maintain a new web experience for Boxee. It will be a mixture of Backend and Application development. We're a small team, so the more hats you can wear the better.

Responsibilities

Plan and execute new features that scale

Maintain our internal framework

Improve and maintain our development environment and release system

Monitor overall site performance, stability, and health.

Skills

3 years experience working on a high volume website

Fluent in PHP and MySQL

Strong communication skills

Expertise with MVC methodologies required

A history working in a cache-heavy environment required

An unhealthy obsession with building efficient, clean, and modular code and data structures

An innate understanding of the issues surrounding large-volume websites and scalability

Experience creating scrapers and dealing with massive amounts of data

Experience with HTML/CSS/Javascript is a huge plus

Plus: Experience with EC2/S3

Plus: Having a hacking mentality

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