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[Bobby Gormsen]

Web Developers- 3 positions available (contract or full time)

LimeWire seeks several exceptional WEB DEVELOPERS to join our team of close to 100 employees.  The ideal candidates will be innovative, self-motivated, a quick study, and willing to develop new skills while constantly improving existing abilities. In this position, you will work closely with teammates to build and maintain (among other things) LimeWire.com, a site receiving millions of unique visitors per day. This is a mid to senior-level development position but all are welcome to apply.

Responsibilities

    * Work alongside talented developers to enhance and maintain LAMP-based production site (LimeWire.com)
    * Participate in (and sometimes lead) the technical planning, architecture and development of new features and systems
    * Improve analytics (WebTrends, Google Analytics, homegrown)
    * Enhance and maintain system scripts using PHP and Perl
    * Mine massive databases and logs to discover meaningful information and trends (MySQL, grep, sed, awk, etc.)
    * Manage installations of Drupal, WordPress, and MediaWiki

 
Requirements

    * Primary focus: PHP, Drupal, MySQL, Apache, Linux
    * Broad range of software development experience
    * Ability and desire to work in high-traffic production environment
    * Experience developing structured PHP applications and systems
    * Experience with OO PHP development using frameworks and patterns
    * Strong database skills (theory, architecture, development, optimization)
    * Experience working with open source technologies
    * Ability to use the command line efficiently

 
To Apply

Please reply to this email if you are interested and I will respond to you immediately - bgormsen at limewire.com    
 

More About The Company

LimeWire is the maker of the most popular file-sharing software in the world.

LimeWire prides itself on its great products, one of the most engaged user bases in the world, and an incredible team of talent. Since launching the LimeWire application in 2000, we have continuously sought ways to empower our users. Recently, we have been busy with the development of the LimeWire Store and creating more ways for Lime Wire’s peer-to-peer community to connect.

LimeWire is also active in the open source community. The LimeWire application is released under the GNU General Public License, and LimeWire developers have engaged in various open source projects such as Spring, HttpClient, Glazed Lists, libTorrent, Wicket, and Hazelcast to name a few.

We are always determined to do much more and seek gifted and inspired people to join our team. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and great perks including 5 weeks of paid time off, free lunches, snacks, and drinks, tickets to cultural events, company-sponsored outings, fabulous rooftop parties, and coworkers who are also great friends. Located in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, we foster a happy, healthy work environment where a free exchange of ideas is encouraged. Ideal candidates thrive in our do-it-yourself, entrepreneurial atmosphere.

Interested in LimeWire? We look forward to hearing from you.


Please reply to this email and I will respond to you immediately - bgormsen at limewire.com   

 

Bobby Gormsen

LimeWire

bgormsen at limewire.com