Are you interested in working on a publishing platform that has a billion hits a month? How about in a day? Or an hour? Yeah! We’ve done that, and will do it again and again. AOL is looking for an all-around superstar to work on the AOL Media Platform, which powers sites like Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq and many others.
Our Developers typically own the entire process, from concept to architecture, implementation, testing, pushing live to support and maintenance. We don’t get orders from above, hide in the corner and code for a while, then lob it over the fence for testing and consider our job done. In our eyes, Quality Assurance is a matter of personal pride versus mandated testing…although it is important to understand that typos in pushed code can BRING DOWN EMPIRES! We also work very closely with DevOps and our DBAs to help plan and tune all parts of the application.
Our extended team is a tight group but spread out over a few locations. We are based in Dulles, VA, but this is a remote position (prefereablly on the east-ish coast). We are also customer facing so you will work directly with our customers as well as the product team rather than hide behind them. Our customers are working in the same department but they have a completely different set of priorities which makes our environment unique. We have a daily support call that is light and generally used to help customers and catch up with the rest of the team. These meetings are critical to the success of team so we look for folks who enjoy and understand the importance of camaraderie.
- AngularJS expertise with at least a billion years experience writing enterprise level apps.
- You excel at Front-end development in general, familiar with most modern Javascript frameworks and libraries, node.js, CSS/HTML and, yes, plain old Javascript.
- You understand how to architect for performance and reliability. Milliseconds count.
- Very familiar with PHP and comfortable jumping in the backend code to support front end tasks. Cool kids call that Full Stack development these days.
- You can speak DevOps. We have an amazing Ops team, but it helps to know how to ask them nicely.
- You understand MySQL pretty darn well. We also have an amazing DBA team, but again, it’s helpful to be able to hold your own with them
- You are familiar with version control, specifically git and most Atlassian products.
- You are familiar with front-end build processes for optimizing and organizing code
- Good conversation about your favorite movies.
We want to see how awesome you are so please share as many of these that you have: your github account, stackoverflow profile, twitter handle, portfolio website, code samples, early childhood drawings, links to things you've built and descriptions of how you contributed and of course, your resume.
Oh, and we don't want a ninja, we need developers that like to be seen and heard.
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