Friday 18 January 2013

[dcphp-dev] [job] PHP, Ruby/Rails Engineer - Direct hire or contract-to-hire - (Dulles,VA or NYC)

Grab Networks is looking for mid-to-senior level software engineers with strong coding skills to work on projects in PHP (Wordpress plugins) and Ruby.  Depending on the candidate's abilities, this position has the potential to be full-stack; however, the short-term and primary responsibility will be video syndication plugins such as our GrabPress product for syndicating video on the Wordpress platform. 

Grab Media is a premier monetized web-based video syndication service which helps advertisers reach their target audience, video providers achieve distribution and gives publishers access to content critical to building an engaged audience.  Come join a team filled with incredibly talented individuals which are focused on a singular goal: delivering the best video experience to the web.  Software engineers at Grab Networks have the satisfaction of knowing that their efforts play a large part in the success of a small and incredibly efficient company.  Through Grab you could have the opportunity to affect people all over the world.

Required Skills:

·         provable programming prowess in PHP and Ruby/RoR

·         experience working on client side plugins which communicate with backend web services

·         passion for writing tight, non-complex code

·         strong experience with Unix/Linux

·         experience with a sizable source code base and version control systems (git preferred)

·         enjoys the team dynamic and communicates effectively

Desirable Skills:

·         frontend languages: HTML5, CSS, JS

·         software engineering practices

·         MySQL

·         Amazon Web Services

Education and Experience Level:

·         Computer science degree strongly preferred

·         Minimum five years of professional experience.

Responsibilities:

Candidates will need to apply all manners of software engineering techniques to develop software which has a large impact on the performance Grab's video catalog.  This position is part of the infrastructure team and requires close collaboration with the product team, thus candidates need to have exceptional communication skills and a team-first attitude.  This is a great opportunity to work on challenging and market-relevant problems as the web-based video industry is taking off!  Candidates should be open minded and eager to learn.

This position is contract-to-hire or full-time and is open in Dulles, VA or New York, NY.  Candidates must have authorization to work in the U.S.  Interested applicants, please send a cover letter and resume or CV to hr@grab-media.com.

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