From joyce at taskmanagement.com Mon Feb 10 12:05:44 2014 From: joyce at taskmanagement.com (Joyce Schiffer) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:05:44 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-jobs] NYC-PHP - Mid and Sr Level Engineers Message-ID: <00b301cf2682$567f9700$037ec500$@com> Digital Media Company - New York City Contact: Joyce at taskmanagement.com I have both Sr Positions as well as Jr/Mid-Level Positions available. Salaries are highly competitive. Excellent benefits/perks Seeking individuals with a keen interest in creating well-crafted and testable code. Candidates should be excited at the prospect of having the fruits of their labor bring a modern media experience to millions of readers and viewers. The Engineering Team is committed to supporting an electronic publishing infrastructure that our readers and creative partners prize. As a team we seek to embody a supportive collegial environment while approaching software development with a focus on reliably releasing great code. Our philosophy is that advancing our individual capabilities as engineers is the surest path to successfully building a terrific software enterprise for our company and our audience. Responsibilities: ? Implement features from the ground up: ? requirements definition ? software design ? implementation ? debugging ? unit and functional testing ? Coordinate closely with tech team members ? Communicate productively with stakeholders in other departments ? Participate in the code review process ? Design, develop, and scale our APIs ? Optimize the application stack and response times ? mentor fellow team members ? both on day-to-day tasks ? as well as toward longer term growth as engineers Qualifications: ? Excellent independent troubleshooting skills ? Strong programming skills, preferably with experience in PHP and Javascript ? Experience with large data stores like MySQL and MongoDB and an understanding of how to minimize query times ? Experience using caching layers (eg: redis, memcache, varnish) ? Understanding of CS concepts such as common data structures and algorithms, profiling and optimization ? Experience with unit and functional testing ? Basic unix skills Nice to haves: ? Worked with Akamai or other major CDN. ? Designed a public API from scratch. ? Designed command line tools for automating and exposing common tasks. ? Thorough understanding of web technologies: HTML, CSS, SASS ? Experience using PHP frameworks like Dwoo and Kohana ? Thorough knowledge of agile Methodologies, Git and Continuous Integration Joyce Schiffer Linkedin Profile (203) 438-9777 x113 (203) 241-2655 cell Joyce @taskmanagement.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joyce at taskmanagement.com Mon Feb 10 12:28:53 2014 From: joyce at taskmanagement.com (Joyce Schiffer) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:28:53 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-jobs] php - nyc - mid and sr level job Message-ID: <00e301cf2685$92a61ee0$b7f25ca0$@com> NY PHP JOB: Digital Media Company - New York City Contact: Joyce at taskmanagement.com I have both Sr Positions as well as Jr/Mid-Level Positions available. Salaries are highly competitive. Excellent benefits/perks Seeking individuals with a keen interest in creating well-crafted and testable code. Candidates should be excited at the prospect of having the fruits of their labor bring a modern media experience to millions of readers and viewers. The Engineering Team is committed to supporting an electronic publishing infrastructure that our readers and creative partners prize. As a team we seek to embody a supportive collegial environment while approaching software development with a focus on reliably releasing great code. Our philosophy is that advancing our individual capabilities as engineers is the surest path to successfully building a terrific software enterprise for our company and our audience. Responsibilities: ? Implement features from the ground up: ? requirements definition ? software design ? implementation ? debugging ? unit and functional testing ? Coordinate closely with tech team members ? Communicate productively with stakeholders in other departments ? Participate in the code review process ? Design, develop, and scale our APIs ? Optimize the application stack and response times ? mentor fellow team members ? both on day-to-day tasks ? as well as toward longer term growth as engineers Qualifications: ? Excellent independent troubleshooting skills ? Strong programming skills, preferably with experience in PHP and Javascript ? Experience with large data stores like MySQL and MongoDB and an understanding of how to minimize query times ? 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Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 19634 bytes Desc: not available URL: From joyce at taskmanagement.com Wed Feb 12 11:31:20 2014 From: joyce at taskmanagement.com (Joyce Schiffer) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:31:20 -0500 Subject: [nycphp-jobs] Engineering Team Lead - Analytics _ NYC Message-ID: <00d501cf280f$dd0c3920$9724ab60$@com> Joyce Schiffer Joyce at taskmanagement.com 203-241-2655 ENGINEERING TEAM LEAD, ANALYTICS - NYC The Engineering Team Lead, Analytics role is critical to the Platform and has strategic, technical execution, and team management responsibilities. The individual is responsible for evaluating our existing homegrown Analytics product, collaborating with internal teams -- including Marketing, Sales, and Editorial -- to create an industry-leading solution as part of the Platform. The Analytics product is the intelligence and storytelling layer within the Platform. Through easy-to-use query tools and personalized dashboards, it weaves together a powerful story about the relationships amongst our Platform, content, customers, advertisers, and editors. It tells us how our customers arrive at our site, how they engage with our content, what devices they use, how often do they come back, how much do they interact with our advertisements, what and where do they share, what their sartorial taste is, their topical interest, and so on. Responsibilities: ? Lead engineering efforts in building out our Analytics product -- including data warehouse, personalized dashboards (for Marketing, Editorial, Sales, and advertising partners), custom query tools, SEO-related monitoring tools, etc. ? Help internal teams and advertising partners to better understand the value of our Platform through data ? Lead efforts and roadmap across the company and for site analytics, page templates, recommendations, audience segmentation, and other features with goal to drive site acquisition and deeper reader engagement on site. ? Co-create strategic direction and product roadmap with Product Manager and the Marketing team ? Strategically manage relationships and oversee integrations / partnerships with third-party platforms, such as SimpleReach, Google Analytics, Gnip, Facebook, Twitter, etc. ? Ensure data consistency and integrity across the Platform ? Collaborate with parallel Engineering teams -- CMS, Web, Mobile, Community, and Partnerships -- on Analytics needs ? Build the Analytics engineering team from scratch, transition off offshore resources while maintaining dev momentum ? Define key metrics of success and goals of projects to ensure the team has a clear understanding of its objectives Qualifications: ? Ability to distill and communicate complex technical and product ideas concisely ? Ability to create complex and interactive data visualizations ? Ability to lead and build engineering teams of 3 - 5 engineers ? Working knowledge of semantic web technologies, such as Apache Jena, SPARQL query language, OWLIM, Neo4j, etc. ? Experience with natural language processing (NLP) ? Deeply empathetic about users? needs, especially around reading, retrieving, and visualizing data ? Knowledge of large-scale data-processing technologies, such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, etc. ? 8+ years of relevant work experience ? Thorough understanding of PHP, Java, MySQL, Python ? Thorough understanding of database design and data warehouse design ? B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related fields Joyce Schiffer Linkedin Profile (203) 241-2655 cell Joyce @taskmanagement.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: