Software Architect - PHP/LAMP
PlaySpan is looking to augment its core engineering group with strong technical leaders to help support explosive growth of its micro-transaction/monetization product lines.PlaySpan provides exceptional career growth opportunity and a great place to work for brilliant people. The opportunity is to join a revenue generating startup that is growing rapidly and expanding operations. You have the opportunity to make a difference and provide a significant impact to the company, and we expect you be comfortable with agility of growing startup like ours.
Your responsibility:
- Lead/Manage a highly talented set of engineers
- Provide technical leadership and motivation to the development team
- Function as the key technical participant in designing and spec'ing out features and products (working with Product Managers, User Experience designers, and Executives)
- Lead infrastructure, scalability, maintainability, and security related projects
- Design and develop systems and frameworks to allow rapid development of robust software
- Design and build extremely scalable and reliable consumer internet products and services
- Responsible for the overall technical design and architecture of all parts of the system
What's in it for you:
- Highly visible role within a growing startup technology company
- Room for growth, opportunity, and challenge
Your Qualification:
- MS in Computer Science, or equivalent
- 8+ years of internet product development experience
- 5+ years of database / backend experience
- Expert in PHP and Java programming on Linux/Unix
- Deep proficiency and experience in web-based application development, server-side programming, and SQL, MySQL and other database technologies
- Proficiency in caching systems and related architectures (memcached, akamai, etc)
- Demonstrated ability to architect and build scalable, high performing and reliable systems
- Strong computer architecture and computer science fundamentals
- Experience in consumer product development
- Excellent web analytical skills, able to analyze statistics and logs
- Excellent complex system debugging skills
- Extensive large, complex, scalable system design and architecture experience
- Very organized (can manage multiple simultaneous projects, can project manage large complex projects)
- Able to work in a fast paced environment, with rapidly changing requirements, on products that ship to millions of users