Company Profile:
Tumblr is a New York City start up that empowers creators and explorers. Founded by David Karp in 2007, Tumblr is now home to more than 100 million tumblelogs and 40 billion posts across a wide swath of communities and topics. From our headquarters nea
our highly caffeinated engineers work in an open, positive and collaborative environment. We focus on creating intuitive and beautiful ways to share, discover and connect, while engineering new ways to bring Tumblr to more people around the world.
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Position Title: PHP Application Engineer
Location: New York, NY
Category: Engineering
A well-versed engineer and perfectionist with strong technical instincts, ready to take ownership of entire features in our PHP code base.
What You'll Do:
Create and improve existing features that keep our 50 million creators (and growing) doing amazing things with their blogs
Write robust, pragmatic code, mostly in PHP
Work with the latest open-source projects and next-gen architectures to produce high scale web apps
Collaborate with a talented team of designers and fellow engineers
What We’re Looking For:
- A desire for deep involvement in product definition. Our engineers are expected to contribute to the direction their products are heading
- A passion for defining and building awesome web products and a strong sense for beautiful, pragmatic code
- Experience with sites that rely on architecture beyond the basic LAMP stack
- A deep understanding of Tumblr’s features
- Smarts, humility, and equal willingness to learn and teach
- Expert-level knowledge in PHP or in Python, Java, or Ruby with a willingness to bring that experience to the PHP world
- Working knowledge of Javascript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS
Tools We Like:
- PHP5
- MySQL taken to its furthest extent
- Prototype and jQuery (along with hand-crafted JS)
- Varnish, Redis, Memcached
- Asynchronous requests and queues (frontend and backend)git and GitHub
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