Slide is the world's leading community-driven entertainment company. We offer millions of people worldwide the ability to communicate, engage and have fun with one another within the context of relationships they build on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Our users can create their own masterpieces with virtual jelly beans, care for their online Pets, or send virtual gifts to friends.
Our portfolio of products include fun applications and virtual communities such as Slideshow, SuperPoke!, SuperPoke! Pets, Top Friends, FunSpace, Rock Riot, SuperPocus: Academy of Magic and Top Fish.
Slide was founded in 2005 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and is backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.
Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.
Check out a recent interview with our CEO.
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Responsibilities:
- Develop media rich internet applications with fast rendering time and reusable components using OO Javascript and AJAX
- Work closely with product / matrix team to determine new features, designs, and priorities
- Collaborate with server-side programmers to optimize scalability and efficiency
- Suggest new coding practices, recommend architecture changes if appropriate
- Technologies we use include: Python, Django, Jquery, OO Javascript, AJAX, ActionScript, Flex, Flash, MySQL, Linux...
About You:
- Crave to code Object Oriented Javascript. Love cross browser event handling
- Stay up-to-date with technologies because it's cool, not because you need it for a job
- Obsessed with delivering the best user experience possible
- Thrive best in small, friendly, energetic teams in a fast pace environment
Required Qualifications:
- Solid OO skills with ability to write fast, elegant, clean codes
- 2+ years experience developing the front-end of complex, high transaction web applications
- Solid in Javascript and good understanding of the of various frameworks such as JQuery, prototype.js, Cheetah, etc.
- Expertise in HTML, CSS, AJAX and other web technologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
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