<p>WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPER (BACK-END/DEVOPS)</p><p>We are looking for a senior software engineer with extensive experience in implementing, scaling, and supporting high-traffic / high-availability commercial web services and applications in a distributed environment. This role requires significant experience in full-stack web application development utilizing Linux, Ngnix, MySQL, PHP, and Redis.</p><p>This is a very hands-on role, and you would be joining a small team of engineers to develop cutting edge services, applications, and API’s that will be utilized by both our internal and external customers around the world. As a senior engineer on this team you will have significant impact on future direction and development of these services.</p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>- Help design, develop, and support high-traffic, high-availability web services and applications </p><p>- Ensure successful delivery and 24/7 operation of all developed services and applications</p><p>- Design and implement well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code, APIs, and test scripts</p><p>- Optimize and/or debug code as needed to maximize performance, scaling, usability, and quality</p><p>- Assimilate new technologies and solve complex problems, formulating and evaluating technical alternatives based on experience and data-driven decision making skills</p><p>- Generate and update documentation and technical/functional specifications as needed</p><p>- Provide development support and troubleshooting assistance to clients and/or other teams </p><p>- Participate in creating technical specifications and performing code reviews with other engineers</p><p>- Participate in agile planning, scope estimation, and updates for team projects </p><p>Qualifications:</p><p>- Engineering talent proven by great work experience, hobby projects, open source contributions, and/or superior academic results</p><p>- 8+ years of professional experience in software development with a strong command of computer science fundamentals and software architecture principles</p><p>- 5+ years of full-stack web application and services development experience utilizing Linux, PHP, and MySQL</p><p>- Significant experience developing enterprise-level customer-facing services in a high-availability environment</p><p>- Experience with performance tuning and scaling of web and server-side services</p><p>- Experience working in an Agile or lean software development environment</p><p>- Experience with internet protocols &amp; services, secure coding practices, and writing code to support them</p><p>- Experience implementing and working with A/B testing in a web services environment</p><p>- Experience with unit-level testing, writing test plans &amp; test scripts, and generating testable code </p><p>- Strong English-language communication (verbal and written) and documentation skills</p><p>- Ability to work in a collaborative, technically challenging environment with rapidly changing requirements </p><p>- A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude that gets high-quality projects done quickly</p><p>Bonus:</p><p>- You have significant experience with software architecture and large-scale web services design</p><p>- You have advanced SQL skills. Particularly in query design &amp; optimization, performance tuning, and scaling </p><p>- You have experience building software utilizing NoSQL &amp; MapReduce (MongoDB, CouchDB, Hadoop, etc.)</p><p>- You have an advanced degree in computer science, software engineering, or similar</p><p>- You are a passionate PC gamer. CS:GO experience and a familiarity with skins trading is a plus.</p><p>Location:</p><p>- This job is located in Santa Monica, CA. Local candidates preferred.</p>