Senior Web Developer at Slide in San Francisco, CA
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.
About Slide:
We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.
- Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
- Our 170 million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
- Slide was launched by Max Levchin, who co-founded and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.
Responsibilities:
- Build applications that will be used by millions of people
- Work on many layers of Slide's products, from back-end servers / business logic (~70%) to front-end AJAX (~30%)
- Work with product managers to determine feasibility and scheduling for new projects
- Improve architecture / framework / coding practices if appropriate
Requirements:
- Adept at developing extremely high-traffic, data intensive applications, comfortable with runtime complexity, caching, load balancing issues
- Skilled in designing and implementing complex object-oriented abstractions
- Solid in least one web programming language (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, etc.), exp with J2SE, C, C++ is helpful
- Strong in JavaScript/HTML/CSS, including familiarity with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, MochiKit, YUI, Dojo, etc.)
- Strong analytical skills and ability to assist other team members in problem solving
- Excellent knowledge of Internet/Web technologies, such as browsers, firewalls, and http
- Working knowledge of source control software (CVS, Subversion, etc.)
- Ability to balance long term goals and short term needs, comfortable with rapid development and release cycles
- B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
Bonus:
- Experience with Facebook's developer platform and/or Open Social
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