Job Description:

Are you a fan of forums? Do you have experience in developing and launching products with a social, community building focus? We are seeking a senior PHP engineer to bring his/her strategic vision and expertise to help build the next generation of a scalable forum software platform that will be used by millions of forum members every day. You should have at least some experience or interaction with forums and understand basic forum feature sets and functions. You need to have a passion for taking on challenges and you should thrive on creating refined, simple solutions to complex problems. To excel as a team member of CrowdGather, you must be highly enthusiastic, a motivated self-starter and embrace an intense, exciting, hard working environment.

As a member of CrowdGather’s engineering team, we want you to bring your experience in building real products from the ground up. Your teammates should see you as a programming expert and go to you for help with some of their toughest challenges. You should be comfortable jumping in the deep end and learning new skills on a massive scale platform. Our engineers play a critical role in product development so bring your creative ideas to the table. And because we push new versions of code every week, it won’t take long to get your work out in front of our millions of users.

We offer a competitive compensation package including equity options and benefits (not to mention all of coffee, soda and candy you can take). Join us and help bring our ideas (and your own!) off the whiteboard and into reality.

Skills:

8+ years of practical, working experience on LAMP
8+ years of experience with MySQL, including complex SQL statements and DB schema design
Exposure to high-performance and large-scale computing challenges
Knowledge of AJAX/Javascript/CSS/HTML
Knowledge of design, coding and testing patterns of web applications
Understanding of project management tools (JIRA) and version control (Git) is a bonus
Stellar problem solving and coding skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to perform as a team lead within an engineering group

Responsibilities:

Develop features and code improvements per design requirements
Maintain the existing software code base in daily operation
Develop automated test plans and test harnesses

Bonus:

Experience with online forums
Experience with very large amounts of data and a global, 24/7 network

About CrowdGather, Inc.

CrowdGather is one of the largest dedicated forum networks in the world. Drawing approximately 220 million page views per month, our network of owned-and-operated properties and a publisher network of thousands of forum-based communities combine the reach and scale of a global ad network with fresh and dynamic content.

CrowdGather’s engaged user-base drives product sales, creates viral memes, and provides a wealth of reviews and ratings that are without parallel in the online world. We provide a highly interactive and informational social media network for members, a management and revenue-sharing resource for third-party forum owners, and a largely untapped advertising network for marketers worldwide.

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Position is onsite at our offices in Woodland Hills, CA.

The hiring manager WILL be receiving all inquiries and WILL respond to potential candidates.

Individual candidates ONLY – NO recruiters or firms.

• Location: Woodland Hills
• Compensation: Competitive (DOE) plus equity
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.