Sr. Fullstack Engineer

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Sr. Full Stack Developer
Demand Media (NYSE:DMD) informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Through a portfolio of vertical web properties reaching more than 100 million monthly visitors, a global network of digital partners, and a breakthrough content studio, Demand Media publishes what the world wants to know and share. Join the company that is shaping the future of media – how it’s created, consumed and shared! We work in a fun, collaborative environment that is as diverse, adventurous and open-minded as the content we create for the world. We encourage all of our employees to learn and grow personally and professionally so they can assume greater responsibilities and advance their careers. We’re looking for ambitious, driven, self-starters who want to be on the leading edge of innovation in online media and technology. This position is located in Santa Monica, CA.
Position Overview:
Society6.com is an e-Commerce site and platform whose goal is to empower its huge community of digital artists to create and sell art online thru various product offerings. The Society6 stack is built using PHP, MySQL, MongoDB and the latest HTML/CSS technologies. It is hosted on Amazon Web Services leveraging EC2, S3, RDS, and CloudFront. Society6.com serves over a million page views per day and our servers process thousands of requests per second. Our team of developers ship code when ready and utilize agile development methodologies. Code is always changing and while we rely heavily on engineers to test their own code we utilize a combination of black box testing and heavy automation to minimize negative impact to the business. If you're a talented full stack engineer, love the front end as well as the back, we want you to join our engineering team!
Responsibilities:
Work with a team of high level dedicated developers in the creation of our next generation platform and tools for artists, mobile optimized sites, and enhancing the e-Commerce platform.
Build out our high-profile web 2.0 social networking, content management and distribution systems using PHP in a LAMP stack.
Design and code new application features and functionality, writing API’s, scalability, and maintainability improvements.
Utilize knowledge about design patterns—MVC, ORM, and Factories, as well as understanding of front-end web technology including Javascript, HTML, CSS and AJAX to bolster our social media platform.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent experience
5 years experience in designing, developing and delivering engaging user experiences on customer web sites and portals
Strong experience and advanced knowledge of PHP, CSS3, HTML5, Javascript. Other technologies such as Laravel, ElasticSearch, Python, CouchBase, and Redis are a plus
Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
Ability to develop, maintain and optimize secure and scalable multi-tier web applications in an agile environment.
If the Demand Media Human Resources department, or any current company employee, receives an unsolicited resume from a third party recruiting agency and Demand Media does not have a signed Agency Agreement active, Demand Media will not be deemed liable to pay a placement fee. The unsolicited resume will be considered a gift and can be considered for our recruitment efforts.

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