Polyvore (http://www.polyvore.com) is a well-funded startup company backed by Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. It is a fast-growing site with over 5 million unique visitors and 120 million pageviews per month. At Polyvore, we strive to build products that delight people. By design, we keep things simple on the surface and yet go to great lengths to make them run better under the hood. There are tons of interesting projects to work on at Polyvore, ranging from search quality to cool data mining projects (we have a goldmine of interesting data on products and brands) to pushing the boundaries of browser technologies with our cutting-edge web app.
Responsibilities: - Design, build and launch new features that our users will love - Proactively think of ways to improve Polyvore - Develop and maintain reusable libraries of code that ease future development Requirements - BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent - 3+ years of web development experience on a LAMP platform - Experience using MySQL and scripting languages like Perl - Experience with Java, Lucene, Solr, Amazon's EMR a big plus - Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript a plus - Familiarity with Apache, Squid, nginx, memcached a plus - Authorization to work in the United States We're located in Mountain View, CA. If you're excited about being an early employee at a cool startup, please drop me a line (guy...@gmail.com). Guangwei