Incoming!

Upcoming.org Looking for That Special Someone

We're looking to add someone new to the Upcoming.org team. If you've got the programming chops and love Upcoming, read on.

We're looking for someone who loves coding and wants to work on a tightly-knit team making neat things for lots of people. Ideally, this special someone would also share our love for Upcoming (i.e. the reason we're posting it here). This job is full-time and located at Yahoo's office in Santa Clara.

Here's the official job description, cribbed almost verbatim from one of Flickr's job postings because I don't like writing these things.

Senior Engineer, PHP

This position focuses on Upcoming's core functionality and application logic, mostly developed in PHP and mostly expressed through the user interface and our application programming interfaces. You'd be working on extending and maintaining Upcoming's capabilities and features, streamlining and re-factoring the current system, integrations with Yahoo! and partner technologies and a whole lot of interface logic (whether for users or apps).

Some key attributes of a successful candidate will be:

• Extensive experience with PHP


• Solid competency with SQL (ideally in a federated database environment, MySQL a plus), XML, and browser technologies


• Fluency with the LAMP stack


• Prior experience with or knowledge of large scale, high volume systems


• At least five years software development experience, a large portion of which in a team environment


• A familiarity with a wide variety of software development methodologies, tools, languages and approaches

Some responsibilities of the position:

• Good clean fast code that thinks a few moves ahead


• A disciplined approach to design/architecture, development, documentation and maintainability


• Self-management in the code-test-debug cycle


• Co-ordination with other team members, partners and external stakeholders through documentation and discussion


• Contribute to the continual improvement of our development process

Bonus:

• Passion for design and user experience


• Expertise in Perl, JavaScript, Python


• Expertise in networking, databases, calendaring or events programming.


• Academic background in computer science (BSc or MSc)


• Experience in both small start-up and large company environments

If this sounds like you, then get in touch. Send links to your personal and professional projects to jobs-geekcore@upcoming.org, along with a plain-text/HTML resume.