Connected Ventures is seeking an ambitious, well-rounded PHP engineer. You need to think like a user, be passionate about coding and excited to build and iterate features that impact millions of people. You will work with our small talented team of developers on a number of large high profile websites which include: CollegeHumor, Bustedtees, TodaysBIGthing, SportsPickle and a few new sites in the works. Collectively our sites reach over 12 million users every month. Connected Ventures is part of InterActiveCorp (IAC), a leading internet company with more than 50 fast-growing web properties.

Our primary stack is PHP on a custom MVC framework, Apache, MySQL and Memcached running on virtualized solaris and linux machines.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and iterate on new and existing features
• Contribute to product design and implementation discussions
• Not be afraid to get your hands dirty playing with framework level code
• Profile / optimize code and queries for performance
• Work closely with our engineering team to build and scale back-end services
• Enjoy nerf gun fights

Skills:

• Experience working on a high volume website
• Fluency in PHP 5 and the LAMP stack
• MySQL with performance tuning and scalability
• Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming
• Expertise with MVC methodologies
• Caching / Scaling (Memcached, APC, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of HTML, Javascript, CSS and XML
• Experience with SPL a major plus
• e-commerce, credit card authorizations, and billing feature experience
• Experience with Linux or Solaris a plus
• jQuery or Prototype
• Experience building scalable frameworks
• A preoccupation with staying on top of industry trends and technologies

To apply
This is an on site, full time position at our office in New York City. Please email your resume and code samples to techjobs@connectedventures.com. Please no recruiters or development shops.