Front End Developer
Our client is seeking an experienced Front End Engineer to bring new features to the surface for our innovative social games. The ideal candidate has a strong CS background with experience building real products from the client side. Experience with HTML5 is a major plus. This job will be based in their NYC studio, and the company offers a great compensation package including salary and equity options. Responsibilities:
- Develop HTML, CSS, and Javascript for high-visibility, high-quality social games.
- Work directly with product manager and game designers to develop, release and iterate game features.
- Stay up-to-date with relevant technologies and help architect multi-platform, multi-device coding strategy.
- Collaborate with offshore server-side team to optimize scalability and network efficiency.
Requirements:
- 2+ years development experience with JavaScript /HTML/ CSS programming
- Strong knowledge of web environments and cross-browser development issues
- Experience with Facebook APIs a plus
- PHP application development experience is desirable
- Prior experience developing consumer facing websites required
- Ability to work well under pressure and with little supervision
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- Great communication and interpersonal skills a must.
This position is located in New York City.
Send a word version of your resume, along with salary requirements to bonnie@sendresume.com
2 Software Developers: Scala
ROLE
We’re seeking creative, motivated Scala developers for lead and team roles to:
◦ Design and code large-scale metadata and social network aggregation for recommendations
◦ Develop a massively scalable processing pipeline to analyze and cluster media metadata
◦ Integrate cutting edge tools and frameworks, likely to include Hadoop, SOLR/Lucene, Carrot2, GATE, Zookeeper, NoSQL and Postgres. We are a small team and we work on everything that needs working on.
◦ Join a team that is Agile when it makes sense, but always sensible, clever, open-minded and hard-working. Contribute to our engineering culture and development process.
◦ Prototype new approaches fast — deploy early and often.
◦ Improve our development culture: propose new approaches and tools, automate annoying tasks
◦ Troubleshoot and maintain critical production and testing environments. Diagnose and address performance issues whenever and wherever they occur.
◦ Run hard and reap the rewards with our tight-knit team.
◦ Help build our Scala depth, mentor and train others, and learn a ton in the process.
◦ Play Starcraft II.
REQUIREMENTS
◦ We’re looking for Scala experience, but above all seek generalists who have lots of successes committing at every layer of the stack.
◦ You must write well-structured, readable, well-documented code. (Be able to show us code samples of which you’re most proud.)
◦ Ambitious, driven, and talented individual who wants to work on hard problems
◦ Team player who feels at home in a flat-structured, highly collaborative and sometimes noisy environment.
◦ Strong opinions about testing, deployment, version control and dependency management
◦ Ability to balance beauty and pragmatism in your designs and code. (Prove it with sample projects.)
◦ Java or Scala (with a real passion for learning Scala and FP)
◦ SQL (Postgres 8 or newer)
◦ Linux: expert day-to-day facility
◦ Git
HIGHLY DESIRABLE
◦ Data Mining and Clustering
◦ Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation Engines
◦ Natural Language Processing (NLP)
◦ Search (scoring functions, clustering, distributed indexing, etc.) with SOLR/Lucene
◦ NoSQL Datastores (Cassandra, Riak, MongoDB)
◦ Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, EBS, etc.) and cloud infrastructure in general.
EXPERIENCE
◦ A minimum of 4 years applicable software engineering, with a trail of outstanding references from peers.
◦ Referenceable projects you have led from stem to stern, of any size.
◦ Minimally a BA/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
WHAT WE OFFER
◦ A driven, motivated, and talented small team that believes in working hard and reaping the rewards.
◦ High-energy, transparent work environment.
◦ Laid-back office environment: we are collocated with another company now and will move to a new space in the coming months. Help define your working digs!
◦ Competitive compensation and excellent benefits.
TO APPLY
Send a word version of your resume. Along with salary requirements, to bonnie@sendresume.com. If you are a java developer interested in learning Scala, feel free to apply as well.
Software Developers: Ruby, Rails 3, JavaScript/SproutCore
ROLE
We’re seeking creative, motivated Ruby on Rails and JS/Sproutcore developers to:
◦ Design and code highly interactive Web and Client-side UX.
◦ Work with product and backend teams to use big data to excite and engage users.
◦ Integrate cutting edge tools and frameworks, likely to include RoR 3.0, Ruby 1.9, Sproutcore, jQuery, Cucumber
◦ Join a team that is Agile when it makes sense, but always sensible, clever, open-minded and hard-working. Contribute to our engineering culture and development process. Practice BDD.
◦ Prototype new approaches fast — deploy early and often.
◦ Improve our development culture: propose new approaches and tools, automate annoying tasks.
◦ Troubleshoot and maintain critical production and testing environments. Diagnose and address issues whenever and wherever they occur.
◦ Run hard and reap the rewards with our tight-knit team.
◦ Help build our Ruby and client-side depth, mentor and train others, and learn a ton in the process.
◦ Play Starcraft II.
REQUIREMENTS
◦ We’re looking for Ruby and JS experience, but above all seek generalists who have lots of successes committing at every layer of the stack.
◦ You must write well-structured, readable, well-documented code. (Be able to show us code samples of which you’re most proud.)
◦ Ambitious, driven, and talented individual who wants to work on hard problems
◦ Team player who feels at home in a flat-structured, highly collaborative and sometimes noisy environment.
◦ Strong opinions about BDD, testing, deployment, version control and dependency management
◦ Ability to balance beauty and pragmatism in your designs and code. (Prove it with sample projects.)
◦ Deep Ruby and JS expertise (with a real passion for learning frameworks like Sproutcore)
◦ Relational databases (Postgres 8 or newer)
◦ Linux: expert day-to-day facility
◦ Git/Github
◦ Enjoy pair programming from time to time.
◦ Believe code review is a necessary part of the process!
◦ Believe the only way to deliver quality fully engaging with all stakeholders.
HIGHLY DESIRABLE
◦ Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation Engines
◦ Search (scoring functions, clustering, distributed indexing, etc.) with SOLR/Lucene
◦ NoSQL Datastores (Cassandra, Riak, MongoDB)
◦ Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, EBS, etc.) and cloud infrastructure in general.
EXPERIENCE
◦ A minimum of 3 years applicable software engineering, with a trail of outstanding references from peers.
◦ Referenceable projects you have coded from stem to stern, of any size.
◦ Minimally a BA/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
TO APPLY
Send a word version of your resume. Along with salary requirements, to bonnie@sendresume.com.
