Job Description Posted Monday, July 8, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Senior Back-End Developer
Who we are:
Valnet Inc., the world’s premier digital media investment company, owns and operates over 25 highly authoritative brands across various verticals, including entertainment, sports, technology, automotive, gaming, and travel. Specializing in acquiring, operating, and growing properties that are mission-critical in their respective environments, Valnet is at the forefront of media investment.
With over 25 websites and 36 YouTube channels, Valnet’s notable acquisitions include, ScreenRant, CBR, GameRant, CarBuzz, How-to Geek, MakeUseOf, Android Police and more.
The opportunity:
Valnet is seeking a highly analytical, knowledgeable and driven Senior Back-End Developer to join a multi-functional development team. The ideal candidate must possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and a desire to work in a fast-paced environment. This person will work closely with the development team and leaders to develop tools to support our various website projects. They will be working primarily on Valnet’s proprietary systems and tools
What you will be doing:
Responsible for new development and maintaining all public sites to optimal performance levels.
Developing CMS features for Valnet multidisciplinary teams for their day to day operations.
Play an active role in the analysis phase when defining the features with the tech lead.
Improving code performance and core web vitals for the web pages
In charge of maintaining all of the digital assets for optimal loading time using the latest technologies in order to have optimal code and programming standards.
Maintain strong knowledge about the latest web development standards and development tools.
Technical requirements:
5+ years experience as a back-end developer.
Experience working with high traffic websites
Experience with Core Web Vitals optimisation
Experience with single page application and ajax
Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming.
Strong knowledge of modularization and library development approach
LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP)
Technical Assets:
BitBucket, JIRA, GIT, PHPStorm, Jenkins.
Shell Script (Bash).
Knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3, SCSS.
Good understanding of SEO practice / Google Analytics / Google page speed.
Why work for us?
Valnet offers careers for the driven. Every new hire has the opportunity to go beyond their day to day and have a truly meaningful impact on the business. Your career has the potential to evolve and is ripe with opportunities to expand and diversify year over year. Hard work and dedication are well rewarded through competitive compensation plans, bonus structures, and perks catered to your work location.
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