Careers/Web Back-end Software Engineer (San Francisco)
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{{HR_Job_Page| We are looking for smart, quick, and highly motivated software engineers to join our growing and profitable company.
You will be part of the team scaling Wikia’s industry leading platform. We are globally distributed, fanatical about performance and growing quickly. We have interesting scaling and back-end implementation opportunities to design and solve.
We have mid-senior level openings at several, from roughly 5 years of experience to 20+ year veterans.
These positions are full-time, based out of our San Francisco office.
Desired Skills & Experience
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- Excellent software engineering skills and judgment. You live to deliver high-quality excellent software products to end-users.
- PHP experience strongly preferred but not strictly required
- You have scaled a web site before, preferably multiple times. You must have been involved in a site serving at least 1M pages/day. You consider 10M pages/day a traffic level where things start to get interesting, and view 100M pages/day as an interesting challenge.
- Some of your experience must be in small, fast-moving high-growth teams.
- Experience tuning and scaling databases, preferably MySQL.
- Experience with queuing and messaging systems, e.g. Scribe, Rabbit, theSchwartz.
- Experience with multiple data center deployments.
- Experience with Varnish.
- Excellent communication skills. We are a growing international team – your ability to understand and be understood will be critical to your success and satisfaction.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining a wiki. (If you have one, please include a link to your user page on Wikia, Wikipedia or another wiki site.)
- MediaWiki or other CMS development experience
- Hard-working and pro-active. Passionate. Team-oriented. Motivated to do whatever is necessary to make a successful start-up even more successful.
- Desire to work with both San Francisco and Poland-based teams. You view international teams as an opportunity to learn from different cultures and approaches, and are willing to travel to Europe occasionally.
- Degree in CS or related discipline
Benefits & PerksEdit
Wikia offers a competitive salary package including stock options, health benefits (medical and dental), PTO, and a 401K. Our San Francisco office is located within walking distance to South Park, AT&T Stadium, and the CalTrain station, and is only blocks away from Market Street and BART. Our dog-friendly digs also come with a stocked pantry and gaming room, where some employees practice yoga at lunch.
How to ApplyEdit
Send your resume and cover letter to hiring@wikia-inc.com and include "Web Back-End Software Engineer" in the subject line.
Principals only. Agency and recruiter resumes will be considered unsolicited resumes that are not subject to placement fees.
About WikiaEdit
Wikia is a collaborative publishing platform that enables communities to discover, create, and share content on any topic in any language. Community-created wikis cover everything from the latest games, anime, music and TV shows to eco-friendly living and the world's best chocolate chip recipes.
With 275,000 enthusiast communities attracting more than 45 million global unique visitors each month, Wikia is the largest user-generated media company and is a Top 50 site, according to Quantcast. Wikia was founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, and is headquartered in a brightly colored SOMA office in San Francisco, CA.
Want to know more about the company? Read the full Wikia Story.