SEEKING FREELANCER - NYC/NJ/Remote
Free Music Archive
<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org" >
WE ARE:
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal MP3 downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. We're one of the largest repositories of Creative Commons music on the web, and our curated approach means it's not just free music, it's good music. We're based out of WFMU's magic factory in beautiful Jersey City, NJ.
YOU ARE:
A skilled backend engineer, with solid background in modern languages and techniques, who loves going down the rabbit hole to solve difficult problems related to performance, user experience, and long-term structural stability of a modern, high-traffic website (and who doesn't mind working with legacy code).
We're also ideally looking for significant overlap with at least a good chunk our current stack:
* mostly backend: PHP, MySQL, RDS, S3, Redis, Sphinx, Memcached, Chef; REST &amp; API design generally
* and sometimes frontend: HTML5, JS, CSS3, Flash
Along with experience with reasonably modern source control (Git/SVN/Hg) and build practices.  Note that we aren't zealots about any of the above; what we're most after is solid engineering chops -- if you're currently working with Rails or Django or Scala but don't mind digging into modern PHP for a good cause, that's fine.  We need someone willing to roll up their sleeves and take long-term ownership of the project and address problems holistically.
You'll be working solo with a non-technical project manager, so your outstanding communication skills &amp; technical leadership abilities will be greatly appreciated. Work will be very part-time (5-10 hours per week); pay would probably be around $45 per hour.
At the Free Music Archive, you'll have the chance to make valued, long-term strategic contributions to one of WFMU's most important projects. For more info, please send a note to andrea -at- freemusicarchive.org, including a CV or a resume, your GitHub profile (or other portfolio) and any other information about yourself you think would be helpful for us to know.