Key Responsibilities: •You will be responsible for design, development and deployment of highly available and scalable, state of the art web applications, web services, and Multimedia Portals. Responsibilities: •Ability to jump into existing codebases following minimal consultation with existing codebase owners and begin effectively contributing to the project. •Define and evangelize best practices in clean coding standards, and processes. •Work with the development team to manage day-to-day technical development activities by leading architectural decisions and technical design/specifications. •Define and ensure adherence to architecture standards. •Strong teamwork, interpersonal, and communication (oral and written) skills are required for interaction with both technical and non-technical audiences •Design and architect solutions to meet our business requirements. •Provide technical guidance for the entire product life cycle. •Be able to focus and work on multiple projects simultaneously. •Participate as a key contributor within the Technology organization. Experience: •3-5 years coding with LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and experience in back-end, front-end, and data access layers. •Experience with Javascript and CSS,  AND the internal knowledge of how they're different in each browser and capacity to work around limitations inherent on each platform. •Experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and design/architecture of RDBMS. •End-to-end AJAX knowledge, or, more importantly AJA-JSON, including front end and web services. •Experience with large-scale PHP codebases having public-facing deployments (with URLs to show for it). •Expertise in one or more of the following javascript toolkits: Dojo, Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery, YUI •Experience with open-source web servers (Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Mongrel, Lighttpd) •Solid understanding of OO concepts, design patterns & AOP •Working knowledge with web services, particularly REST-based •Hands on experience with unit, integration, functional & automated testing •Experience in interacting with dev, QA, and operations teams. Preferred Experience: •Experience with PHP-oriented MVC frameworks (Symfony/CakePHP/Zend/Mojavi/PHPonTrax) helpful •Experience with Java, J2EE technologies stack a big plus •Experience working with search applications (Lucene/SOLR/Nutch/Sphinx/Xapian) helpful as well