Are you awesome? Do you like music?

Are you excited about Music? Do you enjoy creating great experiences for users to enjoy?  If so, you have the opportunity to be part of the team that builds the top Music site on the internet. Email your resume to ymusic-jobs@yahoo-inc.com.

We are building Music applications such as Music Video, Internet Radio, Music Blogs, Yahoo Media Player and several other exciting applications. We’re hiring for a few positions that go a little something like this:

• Build cutting edge applications and mashups to entertain millions of users
• Develop scalable applications that services up to thousands of requests per second
• Review wireframes, design treatments and business requirements.
• Participate in design and code reviews, documentation of design, implementation of methodologies to ensure high quality software
• Utilize software engineering best practices such as source control, unit testing and continuous integration

The roles are within our Media Applications Group, working on web applications that power music experiences both on and off the Yahoo! Music site.

Some key attributes of a successful candidate will be:

• Extensive experience with PHP (PHP5 and framework experience strongly preferred. i.e. CakePHP, Zend, Symfony, CodeIgniter)
• Cross browser compatibility, Search Engine Optimization, regular user of Web Services, XML/XSLT and REST/SOAP style interfaces
• Experience using caching layer such as SQUID and Memcached
• Strong presentation layer experience (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks)
• Fluency with the LAMP stack
• Prior experience with or knowledge of large scale, high volume systems
• At least five years software development experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• A familiarity with a wide variety of software development methodologies, tools, languages and approaches

Some responsibilities of the position:

• Good clean fast code that thinks a few moves ahead
• A disciplined approach to design/architecture, development, documentation and maintainability
• Self-management in the code-test-debug cycle
• Co-ordination with other team members, partners and external stakeholders through documentation and discussion
• Contribute to the continual improvement of our development process

Bonus:

• Academic background in computer science (BSc or MSc)
• Expertise in Java, Perl, JavaScript, C or C++
• Expertise in networking, databases, mail handling, image processing, XUL or OS X development.
• Experience in both small start-up and large company environments

Email your resume to ymusic-jobs@yahoo-inc.com.Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.  For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.