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JavaScript Developer at Atlassian (potrero hill)

June 21, 2010

in Java and JavaScript, Programming Jobs

Build kickass JS components and user interfaces for world-class products
Deliver compelling functionality in performant code
Invent and prototype new features and interactions you can actually ship

You like the good bits of JavaScript. You love building things that are fast without whizzing all over the screen. You think JS can improve user experience without replacing the entire front end. You love solving hard problems with elegant practical code. You love the challenge of being one of a cadre of UI-savvy experts amidst an organisation that’s 50% back-end developers.

Responsibilities

Design and implementation of web applications, specialising in the user interface of the product
Perform hands-on software development tasks, such as prototyping, feature development, bug fixing, unit testing and writing automated functional tests
Liaise with the product architect and developers on software design, dependencies and code maintainability
Liaise with the UI designers on design and implementation of interfaces
Provide time and size estimates for project tasks
Promote the use of JavaScript, CSS and Ajax best practice across the company

Required Skills

Extensive hands-on experience in JavaScript
Strong software design and object oriented coding skills
Experience building Ajaxified web apps
Passion for usability, efficiency and performant code
Initiative and the ability to work independently to drive development
Excellent communication skills

Preferred skills

Experience with JQuery – that’s the library we use
Experience in standards-compliant efficient CSS and HTML
Experience with agile software development methodologies like XP and Scrum
Keen to learn more about new languages and frameworks

Typical experience

3 years in a professional standards-based web development role

How We Work

Our software is Java-based, but many of our developers love other languages too. We actively debate best practice and push for improvements. Change is driven by individuals. We have 20% Time and quarterly hackfests that let you show off your creativity and passion.

Love Going to Work?

Imagine working in a place where you get to do what you love every day. We are a seven-year young software development company revolutionising the way software is sold and used by businesses world-wide. With a range of innovative software products, we have over 15,000 customers globally including NASA, Sony, the Apache Foundation and the United Nations. We are building a different kind of software company — one that listens to client needs, values innovation and solves customer problems with brilliant simplicity.

We are not your typical company and proud of it! If you start your career with Australia’s fastest growing global software company, you can expect a fast paced and exciting work environment which stays true to our entrepreneurial roots. You won’t get frustrated with bureaucracy and slow decision making, and we encourage creative thinking. We want to know your opinion — on everything we do!

Your Dream Job

With offices in Sydney, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Gdansk we offer global opportunities and the chance to work with like-minds from different cultures. Each day you come to work at Atlassian, you will be coming to work in an open plan office filled with lots of natural light. When you are not sitting in your comfy ergonomic Aeron chair, working on your large LCD monitors and the operating system of your choice, there will be plenty of decisions to make. Maybe you’d like to participate in a lunchtime card game? Would you rather play a Wii Sports game or be a guitar hero? If hunger strikes, head to the kitchen for drinks, fresh fruit, snacks and more. Your choice!

Check out a short video created by Atlassian staff on our values.

“The culture is so refreshing compared to my previous employment in large corporations. The openness of information, the willingness to use new technology
(such as using wikis instead of Word documents), daily stand-up meetings to promote communication without the drudgery of long meetings, the honesty of the
product offering—they make me love coming to work each day.” John Rotenstein, internal systems

“It’s been fun from the first interview … I still can’t quite believe that this qualifies as ‘work’.” Kate Ellingburg, sr. developer

“Working for Atlassian honestly makes me wonder why other companies can’t get it right . . . this is how work should be.” Michael Seager, sales team member

To apply, go to our website

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Shop It To Me: Manager of Systems Operations and Infrastructure

June 17, 2010

in Management and Executive Jobs

Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: www.shopittome.com

Manage, administrate, automate and grow the systems infrastructure of a profitable, high growth startup.

About us:

* Shop It To Me is the #1 online personal shopping service. We recommend 2+ billion products to 3+ million active subscribers every month. We are profitable and growing FAST – we tripled in size in 2009.
* Heres how it works: You tell us your favorite brands (Prada, Nike, 600+ others) and preferences (size, price). Then we scour the internet every day and let you know when things you want go on sale.
* We make money whenever people buy something. Our service has been called “addictive” and “dangerous.”
* Everyone loves a sale – join us and help our millions of adoring fans access the products they crave.

About the Job:

* Collaborate with software engineers to ensure operational issues are considered throughout the entire development life cycle. We are looking for a leader who can actively contribute to the dialogue of how things are built to avoid problems before they creep up. We dont want !@*# to flow downhill here.
* Initially, 75+% of your time will be spent developing tools to automate system configuration, maintenance, deployment and monitoring.
* While we already have significant pieces in place, theres at ton of room for improvement, especially as we branch out into multiple data centers and ship new products in the coming year.
* We are looking for someone who is practical and scrappy. We want things to work, but weve got a strong open source bias and are looking for someone who knows how to keep lots of iron humming along at a low cost.

Responsibilities:

* Automate configuration, management, monitoring and, ideally, deployments.
* Help architect operations to optimize throughput, stability and security while keeping costs down.
* Think strategically, partnering with the development team to ensure the operational integrity of new designs and new code.
* Establish 24/7 monitoring, problem identification, escalations, and notifications related to all production systems and services – including building dashboards and metrics to improve our view into system performance. Take personal responsibility to keep things running smoothly and continually make them better. Yup, you are going to carry the pager some of the time.
* Own capacity planning, system monitoring, and system load testing processes
* Build and manage an operations team as the business grows

Requirements:

* Youve managed a sizable production systems infrastructure that drives millions of dollars of revenue
* Youve been a lead and youve probably managed a few people at some point in your career.
* Very, very strong UNIX skills. Youve had exposure to a few different distros.
* Hands-on experience installing and configuring: Linux, MySQL, storage, web servers, networks, firewalls, and monitoring tools.
* Previous experience writing modular automation code, big plus if you wrote it an OO language.

Bonus Points:

* The idea of having the time and resources to build continuous deployment infrastructure makes you drool a little.
* Youve personally owned rapidly scaling infrastructure in the past, and you are up for doing it again.
* Youre active in the open source community. People who are not your friends have used tools and scripts youve put out there.
* You have experience using some of our tools: Ruby/Rails and JRuby; Capistrano; Chef (from Opscode); Ganglia and RRDTool; God; Rabbit MQ; memcached; sphinx; nginx; apache; PowerMTA

Perks:

* Competitive salary&options, medical, dental, vision, nice selection of free food&drink.
* Sweet rig of your choosing, phat monitors, Aeron chairs, big windows, high ceilings, brick walls.
* Millions of adoring (mostly female) fans.

How To Apply:

* Please include a cover letter. Although youll interact with machines far more than people in this role, wed like like a writing sample as well. Please describe some of the automation and managmenet infrastructure youve built in your cover letter. It would be great if you could explain why you chose specific tools and technologies.
* You must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. We will not sponsor visas, nor will we hire consultants through sub-contractors that hold your visa. Oh yeah – and we dont work *any* third party recruiters.

Position is located in San Francisco, CA

To apply: Apply Here: http://www.applytracking.com/x.aspx?track=2aNq0Lh7wH4%2bdxNsiNNbWFTZfLbq5C1dpuJddqMUkRWNyuTH0JJF3S3JPPtevHOfNyZJ4Cdl5jkY7zWxC2Xo52IgUSZKXVt7

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iPhoneiPad Developer at Plausible Labs (mission district)

June 2, 2010

in Development Jobs, iPhone Developer

Working at Plausible Labs

Plausible Labs is a worker-owned software cooperative based out of San Francisco. We’re self-funded and self-determined, with generous profit sharing and a member-elected board. Our company exists to advance our individual member’s interests, and as a member you’ll always have a direct stake in how the corporation is managed and the investments we make in time and resources. If you’re interested in learning more about how we run the cooperative, our bylaws are posted here (PDF).

Our office is located in the sunny Mission district of San Francisco, in a beautiful open loft space with floor to ceiling windows. We believe the right tools and environment get the job done — Mac Pros, dual monitors and Aeron chairs are standard issue.

iPhone/iPad Developer

Our responsibilities to our clients and products are growing, and we could use an additional engineer to assist in our ongoing contract and product development work.

We’re currently looking for someone with 2+ years of experience with Objective-C on the iPhone or Mac OS X.

As a bonus, we’d love to talk to you if you’re also familiar with any of the following:

Android Development
Scala (or functional languages in general)
OpenGL

We’re particularly keen in finding someone genuinely interested in joining and participating in the growth of our cooperative, and located in or able to commute to our offices at 18th & York in San Francisco.

Sound interesting? Please send your resume and a brief note to: jobs+craigslist@plausible.coop.

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Android Developer at Plausible Labs (mission district)

May 20, 2010

in Android Developer, Development Jobs

Working at Plausible Labs

Plausible Labs is a worker-owned software cooperative based out of San Francisco. We’re self-funded and self-determined, with generous profit sharing and a member-elected board. Our company exists to advance our individual member’s interests, and as a member you’ll always have a direct stake in how the corporation is managed and the investments we make in time and resources. If you’re interested in learning more about how we run the cooperative, our bylaws are posted here (PDF).

Our office is located in the sunny Mission district of San Francisco, in a beautiful open loft space with floor to ceiling windows. We believe the right tools and environment get the job done — Mac Pros, dual monitors and Aeron chairs are standard issue.

Android Developer

Our responsibilities to our clients and products are growing, and we could use an additional engineer to assist in our ongoing contract and product development work.

We’re currently looking for someone with 2-5 years of experience with Java, preferably developing applications for desktop and/or mobile platforms.

As a bonus, we’d love to talk to you if you’re also familiar with any of the following:

iPhone / Mac OS X Objective-C Development
Server-side Java
Scala (or functional languages in general)
OpenGL

We’re particularly keen in finding someone genuinely interested in joining and participating in the growth of our cooperative, and located in or able to commute to our offices at 18th & York in San Francisco.

Sound interesting? Please send your resume and a brief note to: jobs+craigslist@plausible.coop.

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Forward: Senior Developer

May 13, 2010

in Programming Jobs, Ruby on Rails

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Location: London
URL: www.forward.co.uk

Forward is a fast-growing internet group with a portfolio of innovative brands.

We specialise in building websites that save consumers money and driving traffic through search marketing. Our goal is profitable growth through the launch of home-grown brands and strategic acquisitions.
Portfolio companies include:

  • uSwitch – the UK’s leading energy switching site
  • Omio – the ultimate mobile phone comparison site
  • InvisibleHand – price comparison built into the browser
  • JustShops – a range of specialty eCommerce stores
  • Forward3D – the fastest growing digital agency in Britain

Forward employs over 100 people in our Camden and Victoria offices and 2009 revenues exceeded £55 million. Having doubled revenues the last 4 years in a row we’ve picked up several accolades including The Sunday Times Tech Track 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and National Business Awards.

Above all else we’re looking for bright, innovative and passionate people who can contribute to our continued success.
Responsibilities for this position include:

  • Development: Evolving the architecture of our search software and getting your hands dirty writing code (as part of our experienced agile team).
  • Business: Being a part of a business and working with the non-technical team members to achieve results.
  • Pushing Boundaries: Implementing new solutions in a matter of days from idea to implementation.
  • Scaling: We work at Internet scale. You will help us to build systems that can handle millions of requests daily, process billions of records and terabytes of data.

Required qualities:

  • Hard Core Programmer: Very strong coding background in Ruby, Java, or any other languages you feel are convincing. Ability to work closely with the business to achieve results.
  • Scalability: You have experience and a firm understanding of software development concepts,, such as OO and parallelisation.
  • Skills: MapReduce, machine learning and/or algorithms experience a major plus. Web development (HTML/CSS/AJAX) a plus.
  • Entrepreneurial: You love new businesses and ideas, and can’t wait to make them happen.
  • Work Ethic: We are a small company and you will be expected to work hard.
  • Internet: You have a passion for the Internet.
  • Analytical: Attention to detail and the ability to sift through huge data sets are essential. You must think logically and be good at reverse engineering.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communications skills are critical as you will be working across functional teams within the company.
  • Method: You will be experienced in Agile and/or comfortable going from idea to implementation in days, not months.

5 great things about working at Forward

  • Fantastic working environment; flexible hours, casual dress-code, top spec computer, Aeron chairs, free fruit and treats everyday!
  • Flexible benefits package; a contributory pension scheme and over 20 options including health insurance, child care support and gym membership.
  • A multi-cultural team; we have team members from over 20 different countries. Our ‘pot luck’ evenings where people cook their national dish are legendary.
  • A beautiful office; furnished with massage chairs, a pool table, foosball table, PS3, Wii and a draft beer machine.
  • We like to have fun; regular company get-togethers and a spectacular Christmas party (we’ve taken the entire company to Las Vegas 3 times!)


To apply: jobs@forward.co.uk

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WebUser Experience Developer (San Francisco Bay Area)

February 9, 2010

in Development Jobs, Web Developer

NameDepot has developed a unique, patent-pending method for businesses seeking to promote their brands online. We are seeking a Web/UX Developer to develop the front-end of our product, which is targeted at small and large businesses.

Ideal candidates will have experience in creating user-friendly designs that compel customers to use our services.

This is a extraordinary opportunity to be part of a close-knit team, and to make a significant impact on the innovation and growth of our core products. This position is located in Sunnyvale, CA.

You are invited to submit your resume, your portfolio, and a short cover letter indicating your experience, your availability and optionally pay requirements.

Contact us with your resume, cover letter, and portfolio of past works at jobs@namedepot.com (Subject: Web Developer) – thanks!

Four great reasons to join NameDepot:
1. Exciting Startup Environment

NameDepot is located in the Plug and Play Tech Center, which is one of the largest startup incubators in the Bay Area/Silicon Valley. We are in good company – with our close proximity to 200 startups in the very same building, there is a strong Google-like feel, with extensive avenues for meeting new people and cross-generating new ideas.

You will be an early employee in our well-funded startup. This is an exceptionally rare opportunity to enter a venture at this stage, where any contribution you make will lead to a significant impact and tremendous rewards.

2. In-House Snack Bar

Never feel hungry again at work! Our well-stocked snack bar features everything: drinks, yoghurt, pastries, noodles, chips, cookies, crackers, chocolate, ice cream, fruits and more! We get regular deliveries from the nearest grocery stores of anything that anyone fills in our to-buy lists.

There is a free flow of two brews of Starbucks coffee. You’ll also have access to the in-house Coffee Shop, located just 30 seconds away on the very same floor as our workplace.

3. Free Daily Meals

Why go to Mountain View when Plug and Play has an on-site chef with daily-changing menus? These free meals are a favorite of everyone in the NameDepot team, who appreciate the sheer proximity of the food to the workplace (again, just 30 seconds away, right next to the coffee shop) when we get hungry. The daily menu items are always worth looking forward to.

4. Energetic, Fun Culture

Our dynamic, fast-paced Mac-only shop welcomes you. Your workspace is equipped with new Aeron chairs – comfort for your back. You’ll also enjoy ergonomic keyboard trays, and get to perform magic with the latest multi-touch Magic Mice. You’ll get to work on the latest 27-inch iMacs, with the delightfully functional Mac OS X. You’ll be making an impact on the world in style.

Sounds ideal? Join us today in our quest to enable people and businesses through the internet!

Yours truly,
NameDepot.com, Inc.

jobs@namedepot.com

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WebUser Experience Developer Immediate Opportunity (sunnyvale)

February 9, 2010

in Development Jobs, Web Developer

NameDepot has developed a unique, patent-pending method for businesses seeking to promote their brands online. We are seeking a Web/UX Developer to develop the front-end of our product, which is targeted at small and large businesses.

Ideal candidates will have experience in creating user-friendly designs that compel customers to use our services.

This is a extraordinary opportunity to be part of a close-knit team, and to make a significant impact on the innovation and growth of our core products. This position is located in Sunnyvale, CA.

You are invited to submit your resume, your portfolio, and a short cover letter indicating your experience, your availability and optionally pay requirements.

Contact us with your resume, cover letter, and portfolio of past works at jobs@namedepot.com (Subject: Web Developer) – thanks!

Four great reasons to join NameDepot:
1. Exciting Startup Environment

NameDepot is located in the Plug and Play Tech Center, which is one of the largest startup incubators in the Bay Area/Silicon Valley. We are in good company – with our close proximity to 200 startups in the very same building, there is a strong Google-like feel, with extensive avenues for meeting new people and cross-generating new ideas.

You will be an early employee in our well-funded startup. This is an exceptionally rare opportunity to enter a venture at this stage, where any contribution you make will lead to a significant impact and tremendous rewards.

2. In-House Snack Bar

Never feel hungry again at work! Our well-stocked snack bar features everything: drinks, yoghurt, pastries, noodles, chips, cookies, crackers, chocolate, ice cream, fruits and more! We get regular deliveries from the nearest grocery stores of anything that anyone fills in our to-buy lists.

There is a free flow of two brews of Starbucks coffee. You’ll also have access to the in-house Coffee Shop, located just 30 seconds away on the very same floor as our workplace.

3. Free Daily Meals

Why go to Mountain View when Plug and Play has an on-site chef with daily-changing menus? These free meals are a favorite of everyone in the NameDepot team, who appreciate the sheer proximity of the food to the workplace (again, just 30 seconds away, right next to the coffee shop) when we get hungry. The daily menu items are always worth looking forward to.

4. Energetic, Fun Culture

Our dynamic, fast-paced Mac-only shop welcomes you. Your workspace is equipped with new Aeron chairs – comfort for your back. You’ll also enjoy ergonomic keyboard trays, and get to perform magic with the latest multi-touch Magic Mice. You’ll get to work on the latest 27-inch iMacs, with the delightfully functional Mac OS X. You’ll be making an impact on the world in style.

Sounds ideal? Join us today in our quest to enable people and businesses through the internet!

Yours truly,
NameDepot.com, Inc.

jobs@namedepot.com

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Senior Java Developer at Atlassian (potrero hill)

January 14, 2010

in HTML, Programming Jobs

The Opportunity

Do you have a passion for developing great software? Do you love to solve hard problems? Do you know how to write robust and reliable systems? Can you ensure performance, quality and security aspects while delivering a product that delivers an awesome user experience? Do you enjoy learning about new technology, discussing innovative ideas with your peers, coming up with great product solutions and passing on your knowledge to others frequently? We should get in touch!

As a Senior Java Developer at Atlassian, you will be working in a small team with talented UI developers and designers, with product managers who have a good feeling for what customers want, and with performance engineers and quality analysts who give your creations a good beating before they are released to thousands of customers worldwide. You will be involved in all the technical discussions, drive new innovative ideas of designing software systems, and make calls on what is feasible and what is not.

We require everyone to be well-rounded and continuously learn new things. One of the many things you could do is for example to pick up good CSS/HTML and JQuery skills over time. But this role also allows you to deep-dive into hard backend-issues frequently. So when gnarly performance problems and architectural challenges are looming, you’ll be the one who delivers the solution!
What you’ll do

* Engage with other developers, front-end designers, product managers and performance engineers
* Liaise with the technical leads and architects to promote great software design and quality
* Drive innovation by coming up with new and surprising ideas for our products and processes
* Develop awesome new features front to back as part of a team
* Point out issues with the existing architecture and code, and clean it up

Required skills

* Excellent understanding of J2SE
* Deep architectural understanding of Java web applications and application servers
* Good knowledge in some back-end technologies like Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, SQL or others
* Superior creative and innovative problem-solving skills
* Initiative and the ability to work independently and in a team

Preferred skills

* Knowledge in some of the standard front-end technologies like CSS, JavaScript (we use JQuery), REST, JSON
* Knowledge of Open Source libraries, tools and frameworks, e.g. for logging, wiring, testing, building. The more the merrier!
* Excitement for the latest trends in application design
* Experience with agile software development methodologies like XP and Scrum
* Interest to learn more about new languages and frameworks

Senior Developer super powers

As you see, the Senior Developer role has all the requirements of the regular developer role. On top of that, you’ll need some Senior Developer superpowers:

* Broad knowledge and understanding of the industry
* Wide experience of successful and failed projects
* Ability to slice and dice problems so they can be worked on by several people
* Desire and ability to mentor junior developers
* Relaxed yet enthusiastic attitude

Typical experience

* 5 to 10 years (or more) in a professional Java development role

Love Going to Work?

Imagine working in a place where you get to do what you love every day. We are a seven-year young software development company revolutionising the way software is sold and used by businesses world-wide. With a range of innovative software products, we have over 15,000 customers globally including NASA, Sony, the Apache Foundation and the United Nations. We are building a different kind of software company — one that listens to client needs, values innovation and solves customer problems with brilliant simplicity.

We are not your typical company and proud of it! If you start your career with Australia’s fastest growing global software company, you can expect a fast paced and exciting work environment which stays true to our entrepreneurial roots. You won’t get frustrated with bureaucracy and slow decision making, and we encourage creative thinking. We want to know your opinion — on everything we do!

Your Dream Job

With offices in Sydney, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Gdansk we offer global opportunities and the chance to work with like-minds from different cultures. Each day you come to work at Atlassian, you will be coming to work in an open plan office filled with lots of natural light. When you are not sitting in your comfy ergonomic Aeron chair, working on your large LCD monitors and the operating system of your choice, there will be plenty of decisions to make. Maybe you’d like to participate in a lunchtime card game? Would you rather play a Wii Sports game or be a guitar hero? If hunger strikes, head to the kitchen for drinks, fresh fruit, snacks and more. Your choice!

Check out a short video created by Atlassian staff on our values.

“The culture is so refreshing compared to my previous employment in large corporations. The openness of information, the willingness to use new technology
(such as using wikis instead of Word documents), daily stand-up meetings to promote communication without the drudgery of long meetings, the honesty of the
product offering—they make me love coming to work each day.” John Rotenstein, internal systems

“It’s been fun from the first interview … I still can’t quite believe that this qualifies as ‘work’.” Kate Ellingburg, sr. developer

“Working for Atlassian honestly makes me wonder why other companies can’t get it right . . . this is how work should be.” Michael Seager, sales team member

To apply, go to our website

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Open Source Java Developer at Atlassian (potrero hill)

January 13, 2010

in Java and JavaScript, Programming Jobs

The Opportunity

Do you have a passion for developing great software? Do you love to solve hard problems? Do you know how to write robust and reliable systems? Can you ensure performance, quality and security aspects while delivering a product that delivers an awesome user experience? Do you enjoy learning about new technology, discussing innovative ideas with your peers, coming up with great product solutions and passing on your knowledge to others frequently? We should get in touch!

You’ll create and maintain the plugin development infrastructure and our Plugin Exchange (http://plugins.atlassian.com). It will be your responsibility to drive new innovative ideas, and make calls on what is feasible and what is prohibitively expensive to implement. You will see and seize opportunities for quick wins, but also be technically minded to also drive solutions for hard problems. You’ll develop relationships with external plugin developers and represent their needs with the internal product teams. You’ll support and encourage plugin developers, write tutorials and documentation, and help people share their work.

The ideal candidate will provide examples of participation in a technical community. These might include blog posts on technical subjects, documentation or tutorials written, code contributions to an open-source project, presentations of videos given at a technical conference, or anything else that might demonstrate your communication skills.

The Atlassian Developer Relations team is a great opportunity to combine your technical and community skills and reap the rewards that come from helping other people accomplish amazing things.

Responsibilities

Developing and maintaining the tools and infrastructure necessary to allow outside developers to create and share plugins for Atlassian’s products.
Understanding Atlassian plugin development at a deep technical level, and constantly improving the process.
Creating tutorials and guides and documentation for developing plugins and using our APIs.
Answering the questions of external developers, about our products, tools and internal and remote APIs.
Attending developer-focused events, including occasional public speaking.
Evangelizing valuable plugins to other customers.
Teaching external and internal developers best practices for writing quality plugins.
Advocating the needs of outside developers to our product teams.
Fixing bugs or enhancing APIs in the products to make the external development experience better.

Essential

More than 3 years of professional Java development, with a focus on web technologies preferred.
Solid Java development experience and talent. Any experience using Open Source frameworks, or different areas of J2EE, are beneficial.
Deep understanding of Maven, and a familiarity with other Java build & life-cycle tools.

Skills

Strong commitment to quality, and the practices that ensure it: automated testing, documentation, code review, etc.
Excellent written, technical communication – at least half of a developer advocate’s deliverables will be content-related.
A passion for community, and the ability to communicate effectively with people around the world.
Public participation in open source projects is encouraged.

Love Going to Work?

Imagine working in a place where you get to do what you love every day. We are a seven-year young software development company revolutionising the way software is sold and used by businesses world-wide. With a range of innovative software products, we have over 15,000 customers globally including NASA, Sony, the Apache Foundation and the United Nations. We are building a different kind of software company — one that listens to client needs, values innovation and solves customer problems with brilliant simplicity.

We are not your typical company and proud of it! If you start your career with Australia’s fastest growing global software company, you can expect a fast paced and exciting work environment which stays true to our entrepreneurial roots. You won’t get frustrated with bureaucracy and slow decision making, and we encourage creative thinking. We want to know your opinion — on everything we do!

Your Dream Job

With offices in Sydney, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Gdansk we offer global opportunities and the chance to work with like-minds from different cultures. Each day you come to work at Atlassian, you will be coming to work in an open plan office filled with lots of natural light. When you are not sitting in your comfy ergonomic Aeron chair, working on your large LCD monitors and the operating system of your choice, there will be plenty of decisions to make. Maybe you’d like to participate in a lunchtime card game? Would you rather play a Wii Sports game or be a guitar hero? If hunger strikes, head to the kitchen for drinks, fresh fruit, snacks and more. Your choice!

Check out a short video created by Atlassian staff on our values.

“The culture is so refreshing compared to my previous employment in large corporations. The openness of information, the willingness to use new technology
(such as using wikis instead of Word documents), daily stand-up meetings to promote communication without the drudgery of long meetings, the honesty of the
product offering—they make me love coming to work each day.” John Rotenstein, internal systems

“It’s been fun from the first interview … I still can’t quite believe that this qualifies as ‘work’.” Kate Ellingburg, sr. developer

“Working for Atlassian honestly makes me wonder why other companies can’t get it right . . . this is how work should be.” Michael Seager, sales team member

To apply, go to our website

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Serious Rails Engineer (financial district)

November 16, 2009

in Ajax, Programming Jobs

WHO WE ARE

When it comes to fun games, it’s Serious Business. We produce some of Facebook’s top social games, we have one of the world’s largest rails clusters, and we’re just getting started(ish).

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking to hire a rockstar Ruby/Rails engineer, like yesterday.

Know Ruby but not Rails?

No sweat.

Know Rails but not Ruby?

Sweat. But apply anyway.

Don’t know either ruby or rails?

Sweaty McSweaterson. But if you’ve got mad skillz we’d still like to talk.

Don’t live in the Bay Area?

We’ll move you here. We subsidize 5k in relocation expenses.

Got friends?

We pay a 10k referral bonus to anyone who refers a developer that we hire.

WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO

* Be one of the guys that makes Rails scaling happen

* Build out infrastructure to support rapid, scalable social application development

* Work on products that millions (we’re serious) of people use every single day

* Contribute back to open source projects like god and merb

* Have a life

WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU

Responsibilities:

* Designing and implementing cutting-edge user interfaces using Ajax, CSS, and DHTML

* Designing and implementing modular and highly-performing server-side game logic

* Designing and implementing internal tools that support our games

* Designing and implementing database schema and access mechanisms

* Ensuring our game interfaces work across all supported browser environments

Requirements:

* 1-3 years programming experience for consumer-based web applications using Ruby on Rails

* 1-2 years programming experience with AJAX, JS, CSS, & DHTML

* 1-2 years programming experience with Ruby

* Ability to quickly prototype and iterate towards production-level quality
* Ability to quickly prototype and iterate towards production-level quality

CULTURE

We are serious about culture here at Serious Business. More than just great engineers, we want to hire great people. We are going to be spending a LOT of time together, so we want you to know our expectations up front:

* Smart – this is Serious Business after all

* Gets things done – we value prototypes and code over posturing and talk

* Agile, tee dee dee – able to work on a variety of projects

* We’re a team – so everybody does the dishes

* Entrepreneurial – everybody has serious ownership and serious say in Serious Business

* Excited to work on projects with lots of unknowns and designing elegant solutions for problems that have quite literally never been solved before

LOCATION

Downtown San Francisco (2nd and Market)

PLUS LOTS OF BULLET POINTS

* 30 inch monitors (because we love pixels)

* Aeron chairs (used from Craigslist, but hey)

* MacBook Pros (standard)

* Full health, vision, dental

* Commuter passes

Tempted?
Please send cover letters, resumes and code samples to work@seriousbusiness.com

Oh, and when you respond please let us know how you found out about this job opening.

www.seriousbusiness.com

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Flash Game Developer (financial district)

November 8, 2009

in Development Jobs, Flash Developer

ABOUT SERIOUS BUSINESS
Serious Business is dedicated to building the best social games on the web. Located in San Francisco, CA, Serious Business has 18 employees focused on building the next generation of engaging social games. Serious Business was founded in 2008 and raised $4 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners in 2008.

JOB DESCRIPTION
The Serious Business Flash Game Developer is responsible for the design and creation of flash-based games. The candidate must have professional experience in creating both real-time and asynchronous flash-based multiplayer games. The candidate must have a solid grasp of game systems design and general software design. Both front-end and back-end development experience is highly desired. Strong UI/UX skills is a must.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Designing and implementing Flash games using ActionScript 3

* Designing and implementing modular and highly-performing server-side game logic

* Designing and implementing database schema and access mechanisms

* Strong advocate during concept and design phases

* Design game mechanics and balance

REQUIREMENTS

* 2-4 years programming experience creating Flash (ActionScript 2 and 3) games

* 2-4 years programming experience with AJAX, JS, CSS, & DHTML

* 1-2 years programming experience with Ruby a plus

* Ability to quickly prototype and iterate towards production-level quality

* Comfortable with developing on Unix environments (Mac OS X and Linux)

* Must furnish a portfolio of playable Flash games prior to consideration

* Must furnish sample code prior to consideration

CULTURE
We are serious about culture here at Serious. More than just great engineers, we want to hire great people. We are going to be spending a LOT of time together, so we want you to know our expectations up front:

* Smart, this is Serious Business after all

* Gets things done – we value prototypes and code over posturing and talk

* Agile, tee dee dee, able to work on a variety of projects

* We’re a team – so everybody does the dishes

* Entrepreneurial – everybody has serious ownership and serious say in Serious Business

* Excited to work on projects with lots of unknowns and designing elegant solutions for problems that have quite literally never been solved before

LOCATION
Downtown San Francisco (2nd and Market)

PLUS LOTS OF BULLET POINTS

* 30 inch monitors (because we love pixels)

* Aeron chairs (used from Craigslist, but hey)

* MacBook Pros (standard)

* Full health, vision, dental

* Commuter passes

Tempted?

Send code samples, portfolios, and resumes to work@seriousbusiness.com and let us know how you heard about the job.
Principals only, please. We will not accept any leads outside of our existing recruiter relationships.


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User InterfaceExperience (UIUX) Designer (financial district)

October 21, 2009

in Design Jobs, Interface/Interaction Designer

WHO WE ARE

When it comes to fun games, it’s Serious Business. We produce some of Facebook’s top social games, we have one of the world’s largest rails clusters, and we’re just getting started(ish).

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Serious Business is looking for a Serious UI Engineer to be an integral part of our team. We make cool social games and are looking for a person who has the motivation, intelligence, and character to design and implement slick, user-friendly user interfaces. This person will be the glue between our Creative team of artists and our game engine developers. Understanding of both sides of the coin is highly desirable.

WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO

* Be one of the guys that makes Rails scaling happen
* Build out infrastructure to support rapid, scalable social application development

* Work on products that millions (we’re serious) of people use every single day

* Contribute back to open source projects like god and merb

* Have a life

WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU

Responsibilities:
* Definition and design of user interfaces to be implemented using CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and Flash (AS3).s

* Definition and design of a game’s user experience (flows, data presentation, etc.)L

* Implementation of design using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript

* Provide feedback and guidance on game dynamics

*Generate proposals for new games and new game features

* Conceptualization and implementation of thematic elements of a game

* Interface directly with game designers/producers and the creative team

Requirements:
* 3-5 years of user interface and user experience design for games

* 2-3 years experience with illustration tools such as Adobe’s Creative Suite (specifically, Fireworks)

* 1-3 years programming experience with ActionScript

* 2-3 years experience building interfaces using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript

* Ability to quickly prototype and iterate towards production-level quality

* Must enjoy and frequently play video games

* An artistic perspective

* A can-do attitude
* A sense of humor

CULTURE

We are serious about culture here at Serious Business. More than just great engineers, we want to hire great people. We are going to be spending a LOT of time together, so we want you to know our expectations up front:

* Smart – this is Serious Business after all

* Gets things done – we value prototypes and code over posturing and talk

* Agile, tee dee dee – able to work on a variety of projects
* We’re a team – so everybody does the dishes
* Entrepreneurial – everybody has serious ownership and serious say in Serious Business
* Excited to work on projects with lots of unknowns and designing elegant solutions for problems that have quite literally never been solved before

LOCATION

Downtown San Francisco (2nd and Market)

PLUS LOTS OF BULLET POINTS

* 30 inch monitors (because we love pixels)
* Aeron chairs (used from Craigslist, but hey)
* MacBook Pros (standard)
* Full health, vision, dental
* Commuter passes

Tempted?
Please send cover letters, resumes, portfolios and code samples to work@seriousbusiness.com

Oh, and when you respond please let us know how you found out about this job opening.

www.seriousbusiness.com


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