Snooth is revolutionizing the way people buy wine. We're the world's largest and fastest growing wine site. We power the wine results for companies such as Time Inc, Conde Nast and others, reaching a monthly audience of over 10M uniques. We're a nimble, New York based, venture capital backed company and a great place for smart, hard working people to make a difference and help us change the wine industry.

Competitive Salaries, Full Benefits

All positions are full time and based in New York and come with a comprehensive benefits package, belying our startup status: health, dental, vision, vacation, stock options, travel reimbursement etc.

Work With Interesting People

Snooth is a small startup with fewer than 20 employees, but we're a unique group of people with a wide range of previous experience. Between us we've done things from climbing Everest and playing professional soccer to DNA sequencing and building search engines. We've also created and built popular products for such companies as Lucent, Vivastreet, Merrill Lynch, Ask, Sony Ericsson and many others. Snooth's employees have over 30 years of combined experience in the wine industry.

If you see a job you're interested in, send us an email telling us about yourself and your relevant experience to jobs@snooth.com.

If you refer someone to us and we end up hiring them (and they are still with us after 3 months), we'll send you a check for $2,000 as a thank you.

Web Software Engineer

Snooth is seeking an experienced front-end engineer to help build and maintain the world's largest wine review site. You'll work alongside a smart, dedicated team of designers and engineers to build the next generation of the site. If you enjoy the challenges and opportunity of working with a startup with the benefits of a mature company, Snooth may be for you. Candidates should have at least 2-3 years of professional experience working with PHP, SQL and Javascript. Specific experience with PostgreSQL, Smarty, and MooTools/jQuery is a plus. Duties will include developing site features and taking part in high level software architecture projects. Experience working with Perl and Java are helpful but not a requirement.

The engineering environment at Snooth is fast paced and exciting. If you are interested in finding scalable ways to approach everything you do from shopping for groceries to building databases, you're exactly the type of engineer we are hoping to find.

What It's Like to Code for Snooth

• The tech team is small and mostly self-managing, with helpful guidance
• Everyone in the company is driven and hard-working
• Micromanagement is discouraged
• Results-oriented job evaluation
• Hands-off vacation policy. As long as you get your work done, take whatever time you need
• Minimalist and well-factored coding encouraged. We judge your work by maintainability, stability, and overall product quality - not the number of lines written
• The managerial structure is best approximated by a soccer team: the coach makes the calls, but you decide how to handle the ball
• Cell phone bill paid for on-call tech: you'll only be called if a server goes down, which happens rarely
• Full medical, dental, vision

Skills Needed: (You should have...)

• Advanced level PHP knowledge (2-3 years)
• Advanced level Javascript knowledge (2-3 years)
• Experience working with SQL (2-3 years)
• Comfortability on the Linux command line
• Formal understanding of the HTTP protocol and how clients and servers communicate with each other

Requirements: (You should...)

• Be able to demonstrate that the above is true
• Have a CS degree or equivalent experience
• Be a team player
• Understand elegant and scalable software development
• Be detail-oriented, willing to get your hands dirty and ability to move fast while making minimal mistakes
• Enjoy coding as a leisure activity
• Have the ability to work within frameworks that are the foundations of development rather than throwaway or standalone code
• Uphold the Three Virtues of a Programmer
• Understand the appeal of "Duct Tape Programming"

If you are interested in this opportunity, send an email to jobs (at) snooth.com with the subject line "Web Software Engineer Position". Demonstrate your expertise and love of building by providing a URL to an existing app you've built. Bonus points if the app is personalized for our viewing. Please also include salary requirements.

This is a full-time position based in our Midtown Manhattan office. No recruiters. Qualified candidates only please. This is not an entry-level position.