| Graphic Designer |
Duties
- Create art for banners, emails, landing pages, websites, mobile devices, social media, presentations, and other related design assets
- Assist in the design of UI/UX flows
- Organize and maintain libraries of creative assets
- Ability to collaborate with internal departments (Creative, Marketing, Engineering, etc.)
- Ability to handle criticism as positive feedback; with the goal and intention in mind for the success of everyone and the business
Education
- BA in Design or in process
Experience
- None needed but you MUST BE hungry to learn and succeed
Technical Skills
- Excellent ability with Adobe Design Suite (Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, etc.)
- Proficient in Mac/PC, iOS/Android, Desktop/Mobile Web/Mobile App
- Working knowledge with HTML/CSS and Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook
- Capable of prioritizing workload and quality checking work; must be comfortable asking for guidance if completing priorities come into play; this also means being capable of knowing when to ask for help before it is too late to come up with solutions to meet a deadline
- Attitude of accountability; committed to high-quality output; extreme attention to detail and accuracy
- Gaming knowledge is a HUGE plus
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To apply for this position, please submit a cover sheet and resume to: jobs [at] socialconcepts.com and reference "GDSNR " in the subject line. Principals only. No recruiters.
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| Senior Mobile Engineer |
Duties
- Develop design that fulfills functional requirements while proving scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Work with the Software Development team for mobile devices, specifically iPhones, iPads and other mobile operating systems like Android and Windows Phone 7.
- Design and develop client IP/Mobile system architecture based on requirements.
- Provide enhancements and bug fixes on existing software products.
- Involve in product testing and release along with support.
- Contribute to the system architecture, technology direction, and roadmap.
Technical Skills and Relevant Experience
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining mobile applications on iPhone/iPad, Android and Windows Phone 7 operating systems
- Proficiency in Objective C/Java/J2EE technologies
- Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Electronic Engineering/Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related field and 5 years related experience
- Will also accept Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) and 3 years of related experience
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To apply for this position, please submit a cover sheet and resume to: jobs [at] socialconcepts.com and reference "SMENGR " in the subject line. Principals only. No recruiters.
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| 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
- Implement new site features and contribute to the continuing improvement of the member experience
- Refine existing code to current site needs and standards
- Maintain awareness of best practices in the LAMP and DHTML space
- Develop optimized, cross-platform, mobile friendly front-end code
- Convert mockups and graphics to functional layouts and pages
Education and Relevant Skills
- B.S. in Computer Science or related discipline
- 1+ years hands-on experience with the following technologies: PHP, AJAX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
- Understanding of Object Oriented development concepts & design
- Strong written and communication skills
- Strong debugging and quality assurance skills
- Capacity to balance work load, priorities and deadlines in a dynamic work environment
Nice to Haves
- Prior exposure to relevant, large-scale social websites
- Working knowledge of:
- MySQL
- Flash development
- Smarty or similar templating system
- Email and Instant Messaging standards and protocols
- Ability and desire to quickly learn and adapt to new languages and techniques
- Ability to work independently as well as within a team to drive features to completion
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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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