Senior Developer at Threadless in Chicago, IL

PLEASE NOTE:
This job is located in CHICAGO, IL but if you're tremendously great, we might consider telecommuting.
 

Position:  Software Engineer
 

About Us:
Threadless is a Chicago-based company that creates online communities and pioneered "crowdsourcing" by combining an online art community with a novel and highly successful e-commerce business model. With its ongoing open call for design submissions, Threadless invites anyone in the world with an idea for a t-shirt design to submit artwork for voting by the community of over 1 million registered users. Each week, the company prints and sells the highest-scoring t-shirt designs and rewards designers and sloganeers thousands of dollars for their new designs and reprinted favorites. Founded in 2000 and driven by a highly creative, fun-loving and entrepreneurial team, the company has grown rapidly and was recently named "the most innovative small company in America" by Inc. Magazine.
 

About This Role:
We are looking for a mid to senior developer who loves coding, namespaces, i18n and refactoring legacy code. We are amazing and expect you to be amazing too. We are looking for someone who is able to take a project, run with it and integrate it into a legacy code base.


What You’ve Got:

Education

• BS in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent experience

Experience

• 3 to 5 years development, testing and implementation experience
• Examples of launched projects
• Experience writing scalable and efficient code
• Hands-on experience refactoring production code, experience with refactoring trade-offs / phasing
• Specific scaling experience (sharding, caching, etc.)
• Experience with i18n, REST APIs, memcached
• Experience developing social applications
• Mixture of web development experience - front-end, back-end, data access

Knowledge

• Knowledge of design patterns and object-oriented experience, knowledge / practical use of OO frameworks
• Excellent knowledge of programming languages
• Working knowledge of Python and PHP, with a healthy dose of Django for flavor
• Love of MySQL

Professional Skills

• Solid web presence
• Speaking experience
• Love of the written word

What You’re Like:

• Amazing sense of humor
• Smart, but modest
• Disciplined self-starter, dependable and willing to go the extra mile to deliver great results
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, loosely structured and rapid-growth environment
• Ability to interact effectively, confidently and credibly with peers and senior team members across the company
• Curious and interested in understanding how existing functionality fits together
• Must love fun

Reports to: VP of Technology
 

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