Overview
Digg is looking for Senior Web Developers with plenty of PHP, MySQL and large scale website development experience. You'll be working on a variety of projects - adding new cool functionality to digg.com and scaling the site to meet our ever increasing traffic.
Responsibilities
Learn from some of the brightest minds in the PHP, design and operations communities:
Play with Memcache, Gearman, Mogile, PEAR, etc. in a high volume environment
Create and contribute to open source projects while you work on high traffic and scalability problems at Digg.
Facilitate communication within business, quality, product and technical teams
Lead code reviews
Help enforce and refine development practices
Mentor other developers
Assist in feasibility analysis and estimation
Communicate status and escalate issues.
Experience
8+ years experience in Web development
3+ with PHP/MySQL/Apache
Solid experience with Subversion, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming
Knowledge of Memcache, SOA, PEAR, JSON are a plus
Knowledge of microformats and open standards are nice to have
Education
Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred