PhotoShelter: Senior Software Developer

Location: New York, NY
URL: http://www.photoshelter.com

PhotoShelter is growing again, and we're looking for a senior backend engineer to join our team. Our ideal candidate is an experienced developer who has a strong grasp of software design principles and loves to build cool stuff. Most of our backend code is PHP, but critical code is written in C as necessary. It also helps if you're a lover of good barbecue, karaoke, and Internet memes.

Our team has pioneered the most complete system for serious photographers to run their businesses. We offer a set of tools to help them display, market, sell, and distribute their work online. We've been around since 2005, are profitable, and have over 70,000 users--including some of the world's top photographers. But beyond numbers, we're a team of smart people who believe in what we do.

This is an opportunity to join a top-notch engineering team comprised of several veterans with prior successes as well as a Chief Scientist named one of Computerworld's Top 40 Under 40 innovators (and he's still under 40!).

Skills needed:

• Design, develop, maintain and optimize secure and scalable multi-tier web applications.
• Comfortable with both object oriented and procedural programming methodologies.
• Strong understanding of software development life-cycle and best practices.

Strong pluses:

• Knowledge of C/C++
• Knowledge of databases: stored procedures, triggers, indexes, table normalization and design.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Sphinx Search, Memcached.
• Experience with network programming, BSD sockets, daemons and distributed systems.
• Experience with image processing libraries (e.g. DCRAW, imagemagick, exiftool, nconvert).
• Experience with high-volume, high-performance websites.
• Passionate about programming and producing high-quality, efficient and scalable code.
• Love of photography

Requirements:

• BS/MS in engineering/computer science and significant work experience.
• Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team.
• 3+ years of programming in a scalable production environment
• All candidates will be given a programming test to assess skill level

To apply: We offer competitive salaries, stock options, performance bonuses and great benefits. This is an equal opportunity position. If your skills match the description above, please email your resume/cover letter to us at devjobs@photoshelter.com.