PeekYou is a database of more than 200 million people linked to their public web data points. The primary goal is to create single profile for any person on the web, encompassing his/her life, work, schooling and more, and to create revolutionary applications with this database. Please see the search engine at http://www.peekyou.com for more context.
Our company is growing and we are looking for a full time PHP/MYSQL/Ajax expert to join the team (on-site only, office is in mid-town NYC). The job will require you to be comfortable working within a small but growing and fast driving environment. We have shorter release schedules than most companies and you'll be asked to take responsibility for multiple products. We're looking for someone who can hit the ground running and start contributing within a few days from hire. Your responsibilities will include: -Owning the front end of our search engine (peekyou.com) All aspects of quality control and regular feature roll outs and deploys. -Database maintenance, data importing and query optimization. -Debugging and optimizing code *Requirements* * Local candidates only * No off-shore companies need apply. H1B candidates will be considered *Skills* * PHP development experience * Experience with template-based, data-driven portals * Adept with MySQL, Javascript, AJAX, CSS, HTML * User interface design experience * Experience building and maintaining content portals and/or large corporate web sites * Confidence administering Linux (or other *NIX like) servers * Apache administration experience * Experience with social networking applications *Pluses* * Experience with VERY LARGE relational databases * API integration experience * Rudimentary photoshop knowledge * Smarty Templating Engine * Prototype Javascript Libraries * memcache or any other caching system that works with PHP * *Sphinx search engine* * subversion or similar SCM
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