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Web Developer

Web Development | New York, NY, United States

The Daily Beast is a website dedicated to news and commentary, culture and entertainment. Created by Tina Brown and IAC, The Daily Beast curates the web’s best content and offers fresh works from its own talented roster of contributors.

The Daily Beast is looking for a smart, innovative, and motivated Web Developer to develop, build, and maintain it's software. The ideal candidate would have solid roots in object-oriented software design. The candidate must have an affinity and passion for every tier of a web application from database to client-side programming. Other responsibilities included software design, data architecture, testing, and batch scripting. Being able to quickly learn and utilize the latest Web standards from programming to usability to accessibility is a must.

You must be looking for a fast-paced, challenging environment. The software is constantly changing to accommodate product vision, editorial needs, and user feedback. Our site is constantly growing and improving and we demand the same from our team.

At least 2-5 years experience developing software applications in a commercial or institutional environment
Partner with designers and product managers to implement new features and ideasMySQL with performance tuning and scalability
Application performance tuning and debugging
Experience with 3rd party vendor integrations
PHP5 development with a focus on re-usability and portability
Object Oriented Programming / Design
Writing and consuming web services (XMl, JSON) with PHP and Javascript/JQuery
XHTML, DHTML, AJAX and secure coding techniques
Great design sense and an excellent intuition for user interface (experience using Photoshop & Illustrator a plus)
Work with: PHP5, Javascript, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Actionscript 3, Red Hat Linux, Social Networking APIs ( Facebook, Twitter, Etc)

Qualities

Passionate and excited about technology, web scale architecture, web 2.0, social, mobile applications, RIAs, data analytics, and data warehousing
Incredible experience and references.
Enjoys working with the latest technologies, 3rd party applications, and social networking apps and wants to push the edge of web development
Believes the best applications can be developed inexpensively and have yet to be developed
Ability to drive projects through to completion on time/on budget, with or without supervision
Can communicate technical difficulties in a productive manner
Clear and useful code documentation
Aptitude for learning new technologies and adapting to changes in process or requirements
Can be part of or lead a collaborative team with excellent communication skills, creativity, and innovative thinking
Comfortable presenting complex technical ideas and business topics to team members
Self starter/motivator
Creative and effective problem solving skills (believes in the impossible and looks to find solutions)
Ownership and pride in your work is a must

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