Refinery29 is a rapidly-growing digital media company that delivers non-stop inspiration for living a more stylish and creative life.  From fashion to beauty to products and shopping, Refinery29 takes its users on a constant journey of style discovery.

Since its inception in 2005, Refinery29 has focused on building a massive community through 24/7 original content.  Refinery29’s highly engaged consumer base yields 7mm unique visitors and 1.5mm subscribers generating 100mm page views each month.  Refinery29 has become the #1 digital style destination and was ranked as Inc. Magazine’s #1 fastest-growing media company this year.

Refinery 29 is looking for back-end developers across all of our Engineering Teams: CMS, Web, Mobile, Partnerships, and Analytics.  We are 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  

• 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

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