Curse is seeking a Python engineer to join a small development team tasked with ongoing feature development and maintenance of a django based MMO gaming portal website. Candidate should have experience w/ scaling webapps for highly concurrent access, and the issues involved:

• Understanding of sharding
• Issues caused by replication
• Understanding of web caching methods (cache headers, etags, etc) and the issues inherint in it.

Beyond that, the candidate would be expected to follow normal development rules:

• Work with Graphic Designers, Project Managers and Engineering team to develop the site
• Responsible for writing documentation.
• Responsible for adhering to coding standards and processes.
• Responsible for communicating progress or problems to Project Managers.
• Estimating level of effort for new projects.

Required Experience:

• 4+ years coding (general, OOP preferred)
• at least 18 months of python as primary language
• SQL 2+ years
• HTML 2+ years
• Long term usage of at least one python framework (django would be preferred).

Additional Skills:

• Familiar with VCS (cvs, svn, perforce, git/hg/bzr)
• Apache/Squid/Lighty
• Linux
• Shell Scripting
• Perl
• Familiarity with Jinja, JQuery a plus
• JS/Ajax would be nice

Contact:

• Contact: Lars Koschin, CTO
• E-mail Contaccat: <lkoschin@curse.com>
• Web: http://www.curse.com