| Senior/Mid-level Software Engineer |
Duties
- Design and implement new site features for growing suite of social interaction websites.
- Help evolve the engineering process in the company.
- Architect platform capabilities for horizontal scalability and reusability
- Take different ideas and run with them
- Participate in design for geographic distribution of server infrastructure
- Maintain awareness of best practices in the LAMP space and promote them
- Work with a set of proven engineers and management
- Communicates with the project team throughout all stages of design.
- Create superior, original designs for the Web.
- Review information architecture and creative designs for feasibility.
- Develop optimized/cross-platform front-end code in CSS/XHTML, JavaScript, and AJAX.
- Actively participate in brainstorming with the product and engineering team
Technical Skills and Relevant Experience
- Extensive knowledge of web technologies and architectures
- 3+ Years of hands-on experience with the following technologies: PHP, AJAX, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript.
- Experience with high performance and scalability web applications
- Strong Written and Communication Skills
- AJAX/Javascript experience
- W3C DOM methods and properties experience.
- Expert in creating clean structured code and stylesheets, with a passion for the latest and greatest techniques in web standards.
- Must demonstrate strong interaction and rapid prototype engineering.
- Strong understanding of object oriented development concepts, software design, software quality and performance
- Experience developing technical specifications and deliverables
- Strong experience developing applications based on the LAMP stack architecture (Perl | PHP)
- Strong experience designing, implementing, optimizing and maintaining databases (preferably MySQL)
- Thorough understanding of Object Oriented Principles (OOP)
- Prior experience with startups and small team
Nice to Haves
- Experience in hosting and deploying 24x7 web applications
- Distributed computing experience (design and implementation of applications having components on more than one server)
- Ability to work independently to drive features to completion, while respecting architectural guidelines
- The ability to quickly learn and adapt to new languages and techniques is a plus
- Strong experience optimizing MySQL databases and queries
- Strong knowledge of MySQL (its ins and outs and other minor details)
- Knowledge of design and data integrity issues with high-volume transactions on distributed SQL databases
- General experience with distributed systems and high volume websites (50+ physical servers)
- Prior experience with relevant large-scale consumer websites such as Evite, social networking, webmail, dating, calendaring, games, news
- CSS, Flash Development
- Real-world experience with public websites: hardening, fail-friendly UIs, short end-user learning curves
- Experience with horizontally scaled and clustered Linux environments’
- Email and Instant Messaging standards and protocols
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To apply for this position, please submit a cover sheet and resume to: jobs [at] socialconcepts.com and reference "Senior/Mid-level Software Engineer " in the subject line. Principals only. No recruiters.
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| Intermediate/Junior Web Developer |
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Duties
- Design and implement new site features for growing suite of social interaction websites
- Take different ideas and run with them
- Maintain awareness of best practices in the LAMP and DHTML space and promote them
- Develop optimized/cross-platform front-end code in CSS/XHTML, JavaScript, and AJAX.
- Designs graphics, pages, and develops HTML, CSS
Technical Skills and Relevant Experience
- Existing knowledge of web technologies and architectures
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience with the following technologies: PHP, AJAX, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript.
- B.S. in Computer Science or related discipline
- Understanding of object oriented development concepts, software design, software quality and performance
- Experience developing technical specifications and deliverables
- Experience developing applications based on the LAMP stack architecture (Perl | PHP)
Nice to Haves
- Experience with User Interface Design or graphics is a plus
- W3C DOM methods and properties experience.
- AJAX/Javascript experience
- Strong Written and Communication Skills
- Prior experience with relevant large-scale consumer websites such as Evite, social networking, webmail, dating, calendaring, games, news
- CSS, Flash
- Real-world experience with public websites
- Email and Instant Messaging standards and protocols
- Distributed computing experience (design and implementation of applications having components on more than one server)
- Ability to work independently to drive features to completion
- The ability to quickly learn and adapt to new languages and techniques is a plus
- Knowledge of MySQL (its ins and outs and other minor details)
- CSS, Flash Development
- Email and Instant Messaging standards and protocol
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To apply for this position, please submit a cover sheet and resume to: jobs [at] socialconcepts.com and reference "Intermediate/Junior Web Developer " in the subject line. Principals only. No recruiters.
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