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Sr. API Engineer
Vimeo
New York, NY, United States
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At Vimeo, our passion for supporting our filmmakers doesn’t stop at our website. We help them grow their audience through our mobile apps, and enable them to expand their capabilities through third party applications. And that’s where our API (and you) will play a role.
What you'll do:
• Constantly work to improve the performance, usability, and overall experience of the Vimeo API
• Write clean, tested and reusable code in a collaborative environment
• Support our following of several thousand third party developers.
• Collaborate with a team of talented designers and other engineers to build award-winning work
• Grow your skills by working on challenging projects and jam out your own ideas during our monthly code jams
Skills and knowledge you should possess:
• At least 4 years’ experience in backend web development
• Mastery of PHP and client side JavaScript
• A passion for API programming and the desire to improve yourself and the code.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful web services
• In depth knowledge of OAuth
• Deep understanding of development methodologies
• The ability to seek out squash impediments without guidance.
• BA or equivalent
Bonus points:
• Experience with writing about technical subjects (for blogs or documentation)
• Front-End development experience
• Experience with Agile Methodologies
• Strong portfolio or public code (Github, Bitbucket, etc.)
About the Engineering team:
Vimeo's Engineering team is responsible for ensuring our site and apps continue to perform above and beyond industry standards for our users worldwide. We work tirelessly to improve Vimeo’s user, desktop, and mobile web and native app experiences. Some of the our team’s most notable achievements include a complete rebuild of the Vimeo player to embrace open web standards and default to HTML5, and building the very first video-sharing site to support high-definition (HD) uploading and playback.
About us:
Vimeo’s mission is to empower creators to make, share and sell amazing videos directly to viewers worldwide, in the highest quality possible and with no interruptive advertising. Vimeo is home to the world’s leading video creators and the hundreds of millions of viewers who love them. We’d love to welcome you to both our team, and our community.
Founded in 2004 and based in New York City, Vimeo, LLC is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).