PHP Application Engineer

Do you impress yourself with your skills in PHP, HTML/CSS, JavaScript? Worked in a high-volume environment? Like 75+ million uniques high? Then apply. Now. Or suffer the consequences.

Vimeo is the high quality video platform for creative people around the world. The Vimeo team is committed to delivering an inspiring video experience to over 85 million monthly creators and viewers—and we’re growing bigger every day.

Vimeo was founded in 2004 by filmmakers who wanted a fun and easy way to share their work and moments from their lives. We remain true to that mission today by continually striving to help people with a wide range of passions share the things they create and care about.  Vimeo is made with love by a highly ambitious, ridiculously innovative, and certifiably hilarious team based in New York City, and we’d love for you to be a part of it.

Responsibilities?

• Implement major new features and feature improvements
• Identify and solve compatibility issues
• Work closely with the Product and Design/UX team to steadily improve user experience and the feature set
• Work closely with the Backend team to profile and optimize code for performance

Requirements:

• 2- 4 years’ experience working on a high volume website
• A history of working on modern web applications
• An unhealthy obsession with building efficient, clean, and modular code and data structures
• An understanding of the issues surrounding large-volume websites and scalability
• An ability to work seamlessly between client-facing and backend code
• Ingenuity to leverage all the tools at your disposal to eke out every last bit of performance and build the best user experience possible
• A history of working in a cache-heavy environment and an innate understanding of issues surrounding cache
• A desire to be personally responsible for production-level code (and the willingness to answer 3am phone calls to fix your mistakes)
• A preoccupation with staying on top of industry trends and technologies

 
Technical Requirements:

• Expertise in PHP5, MySQL and memcache required
• Expertise with MVC methodologies required
• Expertise with HTML/CSS experience required
• Expertise with Javascript required, along with experience using a JS framework (we use MooTools)
• Experience with ActiveRecord-style ORM required
• Experience with SPL a major plus
• Experience with Solr/Lucene a major plus
• Comfortable working with in a CLI environment