Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA

Department: Engineering

Type: Full Time

Min. Experience: Experienced

IGN is the #1 video game portal on the Internet. We are looking for a Web Developer to work with our team of engineers at our headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Here the team works on our social apps, media products, and new business strategy.

At IGN, our engineering culture and technology is focused on innovation, leveraging and contributing to open source, and building products that have real value for the world. As a Web Developer on our video team you will be responsible for working with the team on web applications, video players, web APIs, CMS tools, and other systems powering IGN's video experience.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with a team of engineers to build modern API-driven web applications
Development of front-end web pages using modern interpreted server-side languages such as PHP, Python, or Ruby and standard HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
Optimizing performance of the API, web server tier, and front-end applications
Establishing web and front-end best practices

Requirements:

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
2+ years experience developing large scale software applications
Object-Oriented Programming, MVC, and RESTful web services experience
Experience with Linux, git, and modern software development practices such as agile development, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
Track record solving difficult problems with cross-functional teams
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Web API experience using Ruby, Python, and Java and modern databases such as MongoDB and MySQL a plus

IGN Entertainment is the leading Internet media and services provider focused on the video game and entertainment enthusiast markets. Collectively, IGN's properties reach more than 70 million unique users worldwide, and IGN's network of video game-related properties (IGN.com, 1UP.com, GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox and others) is the Web's #1 video game information destination. IGN also owns the world’s largest men’s lifestyle website, AskMen.com, and men’s entertainment site UGO.com. It also provides technology for online game play in video games. IGN is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices across North America, Europe and Australia.

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