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.

Job Description:

You will work as an intern with a small, talented team in a fast-paced environment at our office in San Francisco, building and scaling out highly entertaining, media rich Internet applications used by hundreds of millions of people. You will collaborate with really smart and fun engineers. You will solve hard problems and bend Web technologies to accomplish new, interesting and complex engineering challenges.

About You:

• Get excited about working with wicked smart people and solving really challenging problems
• Think you would enjoy working in a small team, fast-paced start-up environment where engineering is king
• Want to work on both the front-end and back-end of high transaction Web applications
• Are interested in designing and implementing complex object-oriented abstractions, data structures, run-time complexity, etc.
• Have studied different languages but have a strong preference for Python. You think decorators and generators are cool. You are familiar with Django, Pylons or TurboGears frameworks and understand their trade-offs
• Can write efficient JavaScript, are knowledgeable with jQuery, and are familiar with AJAX
• Think Actionscript/Flex/Flash are interesting and wouldn't mind learning them
• Enjoy staying up-to-date with technologies so you can suggest new coding practices, recommend architecture changes and collaborate with our platform team to optimize scalability and network efficiency
• Love seeing your work used by hundreds of millions of people.

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