As a Senior Web Developer helping to build out ASMALLWORLD's social networking and content platform, you will join a small, tight-knit group of developers who share a deep interest in technology and software development and a passion for creating great products. You will help our development team to produce the innovations and breakthroughs necessary to develop a platform that excites our users, scales with the growth of our traffic, membership, and data, provides a compelling and effective vehicle for our advertising and marketing clients, and stays abreast of the leading edge of the technology curve. You will be balancing the intellectual satisfaction of coming up with smart and clever approaches to problems with the pragmatic dedication to getting the job done and delivering solutions in a fast-paced startup environment. Your ability to come up with creative ideas will be matched only by your warrior-like ability to execute with precision.
The position requires daily interaction with the marketing and product development teams in New York. This role will be responsible for the development of innovative user interfaces, feature enhancements and other compelling applications for premier luxury brands and advertisers. There will be a strong preference for candidates with a background developing modular components for large-scale web applications that extensively leverage AJAX, JavaScript libraries, and web services. Experience delivering non-trivial production Ruby on Rails code in a team environment is a must. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate an adherence to best practices in their work regarding browser compatibility, maintainability and code reuse.
This position is located in our New York office. Local candidates only, please.
Requirements:
- You have a solid understanding of the web from philosophical foundations to the nuts and bolts of its implementation
- You have experience delivering non-trivial production Ruby on Rails code
- You have experience developing modular front-end components using XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON and microformats
- You've spent enough time in the trenches battling cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility issues that the tools, techniques, and intuition you've accumulated give you the confidence to weather any slings and arrows that IE may throw at you.
- You have a knack for creating good abstractions that actually get reused
- You're an agile developer who appreciates the value of architecture and design
- You're as good at reading code as you are at writing it
- You haven't met a bug that scares you or has gotten the best of you
- You have the ability to make progress on a task before you have all of the information required to complete it
- You like people and enjoy personal interaction as well as intellectual collaboration
- You know how to balance the optimization of your own individual productivity with that of the team as a whole
- You're good at drawing pictures that effectively communicate your ideas
- You're opinionated and flexible
Skills:
- Photoshop CS
- Knowledge of Flash 8 or above
- Ability to write and update design specification documents
- MySQL experience
Send cover letter and resume to: jobs@asmallworld.net
