PHP Developer, Search Engineer for Funded Growth-Stage Internet Startup (Chelsea, NY) Chelsea

Our Company, PrivCo, one of New York's hottest start-ups, is seeking a talented and passionate PHP Developer to join our growing team. If you're seeking an opportunity with a fast-growing startup and having an impact from Day 1, apply to join our fun, casual team in building our Company into the next billion-dollar startup! We are working hard to build and deliver an innovative, disruptive platform of private company financial information to our paying clients which include: Investment Banks, VC Firms, Private Equity Firms, Hedge Funds, Consulting and Law Firms, and various Corporate Professionals. As a key member of our development, you'd have the priceless opportunity to work directly with and learn from our young, aspiring executive team, including our Founder/CEO (see bio), who already has built and sold a $100 million startup company (Vault.com) and is a winner of Top Entrepreneur of the Year.

Salary is competitive with market compensation and is based on experience. Significant stock options are also available for the right candidate.

Why We Are Successful:

Established Brand: Our Company is now cited daily by the biggest media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Time Magazine, The Today Show, NPR, The Financial Times, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Post, CNBC, Bloomberg, and across the globe like UK's Daily Guardian, Daily Mirror, BBC Television and The Times of India.

Clients: Unlike so many other startups that have no business model or paying clients, Our Company's clients already include big-name companies like Andreessen Horowitz (Silicon Valley's top V.C. Firm), McKinsey, Bain Capital (Top Private Equity Firm), McKinsey, Gartner Group (top market research firm), General Electric Co., Goldman Sachs, Google, Inc., Chevron, and 3M. You'll have the opportunity to develop long lasting relationships with key decision makers at these top firms.

Funding and Potential Growth: We have millions of dollars behind us, including funding from our successful, young serial entrepreneur Founder & CEO.

As a PHP Developer, Search Engineer for our company, you will fulfill an important role in:

• Develop and Maintain Index based search engine component to our web-based flagship application.
• Develop the indexing process to maximize the possible search capability in our system.
• Work with Front-End/UX team to develop Customer Search Interface and enhance Customer's searching Experience.
• Collaborate as part of the Tech team to architect, design, and build systems based on common standards and best practices

You:
Be fun, hard-working and an intelligent developer with strong problem-solving skills, an aptitude for new technology and a committed entrepreneurial mindset. You must be focused and able to work on projects on your own and in collaboration with our talented product team. Most importantly, you must enjoy writing code building systems of any size and solving puzzles and new challenges every day.

Minimum Requirements:
- Strong Proficiency on Apache SOLR and/or Lucene based index/search engine
- Familiarize with AWS/Linux-based system
- 3+ years practical experience on PHP, Javascript, JQuery, HTML and CSS Skills
- Familiarize with Zend Framework 1/2 or other PHP MVC Framework
- Experience on MySQL, DynamoDB and/or MongoDB

Pluses:

- Experience on API server like Apigility
- Experience on recommendation engine
- Hands-on experience working with other distributed data technology


Recent PrivCo coverage cited in the media:
Crains
Forbes
Inside Bay Area
Barrons
SiliconBeat
CNET
Marketwatch
Inc.
VentureBeat
Reuters
Wall Street Journal
NY Post

If you think you are right fit to help build our startup, please send in a resume to privcotech@gmail.com

compensation: Salary is competitive with market compensation and is based on experience. Significant stock options are also available for the right candidate.

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