Tagged: Market Street

Ruby on Rails Developer (SOMA south beach)

May 5, 2010

in Programming Jobs, Ruby on Rails

About us:
Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world! SideReel is a great place to work. We are a small established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits.

About the job:
We are looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails software engineer to help build a community-based site focused on helping people find great entertainment online. We are a small, relatively experienced team that is passionate about learning and dedicated to continuous improvement. Joining now means that you’ll have tremendous influence over the technology, features, the direction of the product, and the culture of the company.

Process-wise, we use a test-driven approach to engineering including some elements of Extreme Programming. We’re focused on rapid product iterations, frequent prototyping, and a fanatical belief in user feedback. We test early and often. We’re very interested in how we can improve how we do what we do.

The ideal candidate is a Ruby/Rails expert who: Has shipped multiple high-traffic Rails sites Has published or maintained a Ruby Gem or Rails Plugin
You should be skilled in many of the following areas: jQuery + Rails Memcache Rspec CSS Cucumber/Integration testing
You must be at least this tall to ride: Have shipped a Ruby (with or without Rails) web project Have significant javascript expertise Love working with and in teams Be excited about Agile software development
Please respond with at least 2 of the 4 following pieces of information: What previous projects are you particularly proud of? What interests you about working for an early start-up? What are your favorite agile development practices, and how have they helped you? What excites you about software development in general? To apply, please respond to this posting with the above requested information and your resume.

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SideReel: Ruby on Rails Developer

April 22, 2010

in Programming Jobs, Ruby on Rails

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Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.sidereel.com

About us:
Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world! SideReel is a great place to work. We are a small established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits.

About the job:
We are looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails software engineer to help build a community-based site focused on helping people find great entertainment online. We are a small, relatively experienced team that is passionate about learning and dedicated to continuous improvement. Joining now means that you’ll have tremendous influence over the technology, features, the direction of the product, and the culture of the company.

Process-wise, we use a test-driven approach to engineering including some elements of Extreme Programming. We’re focused on rapid product iterations, frequent prototyping, and a fanatical belief in user feedback. We test early and often. We’re very interested in how we can improve how we do what we do.

The ideal candidate is a Ruby/Rails expert who:

  • Has shipped multiple high-traffic Rails sites
  • Has published or maintained a Ruby Gem or Rails Plugin

You should be skilled in many of following areas:

  • jQuery + Rails
  • Memcache
  • Java/J2EE
  • Rspec
  • CSS
  • Cucumber/Integration testing

You must be at least this tall to ride:

  • Have shipped a Ruby (with or without Rails) web project
  • Have significant javascript expertise
  • Love working with and in teams
  • Be excited about Agile software development

Please respond with at least 2 of the 4 following pieces of information:

  • What previous projects are you particularly proud of?
  • What interests you about working for an early start-up?
  • What are your favorite agile development practices, and how have they helped you?
  • What excites you about software development in general?

To apply: To apply, please email us at jobs+37signals@sidereel.com with the above requested information and your resume.

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Sr Ruby on Rails Developer SideReelcom (San Francisco)

April 22, 2010

in Programming Jobs, Ruby on Rails

About us: 
Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world! SideReel is a great place to work. We are a small established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits.

About the job:
We are looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails software engineer to help build a community-based site focused on helping people find great entertainment online. We are a small, relatively experienced team that is passionate about learning and dedicated to continuous improvement. Joining now means that you’ll have tremendous influence over the technology, features, the direction of the product, and the culture of the company.

Process-wise, we use a test-driven approach to engineering including some elements of Extreme Programming. We’re focused on rapid product iterations, frequent prototyping, and a fanatical belief in user feedback. We test early and often. We’re very interested in how we can improve how we do what we do.

The ideal candidate is a Ruby/Rails expert who: Has shipped multiple high-traffic Rails sites Has published or maintained a Ruby Gem or Rails Plugin
You should be skilled in many of the following areas: jQuery + Rails Memcache Java/J2EE Rspec CSS Cucumber/Integration testing
You must be at least this tall to ride: Have shipped a Ruby (with or without Rails) web project Have significant javascript expertise Love working with and in teams Be excited about Agile software development
Please respond with at least 2 of the 4 following pieces of information: What previous projects are you particularly proud of? What interests you about working for an early start-up? What are your favorite agile development practices, and how have they helped you? What excites you about software development in general? To apply, please respond to this posting with the above requested information and your resume.

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Sr Ruby on Rails Developer SideReelcom (SOMA south beach)

April 20, 2010

in Programming Jobs, Ruby on Rails

About us: 
Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world! SideReel is a great place to work. We are a small established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits.

About the job:
We are looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails software engineer to help build a community-based site focused on helping people find great entertainment online. We are a small, relatively experienced team that is passionate about learning and dedicated to continuous improvement. Joining now means that you’ll have tremendous influence over the technology, features, the direction of the product, and the culture of the company.

Process-wise, we use a test-driven approach to engineering including some elements of Extreme Programming. We’re focused on rapid product iterations, frequent prototyping, and a fanatical belief in user feedback. We test early and often. We’re very interested in how we can improve how we do what we do.

The ideal candidate is a Ruby/Rails expert who: Has shipped multiple high-traffic Rails sites Has published or maintained a Ruby Gem or Rails Plugin
You should be skilled in many of the following areas: jQuery + Rails Memcache Java/J2EE Rspec CSS Cucumber/Integration testing
You must be at least this tall to ride: Have shipped a Ruby (with or without Rails) web project Have significant javascript expertise Love working with and in teams Be excited about Agile software development
Please respond with at least 2 of the 4 following pieces of information: What previous projects are you particularly proud of? What interests you about working for an early start-up? What are your favorite agile development practices, and how have they helped you? What excites you about software development in general? To apply, please respond to this posting with the above requested information and your resume.

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Sr. Web Developer (financial district)

April 20, 2010

in Development Jobs, Web Developer

About Creative Merchandise

Creative Merchandise (www.creativemerch.com) is the leading web hosting and company store platform for the promotional products industry. We maintain a wide and diverse user base, and are responsible for hosting thousands of mission critical B2B websites. Although we’ve been around for nearly seven years, we still maintain our startup energy and mentality. We have deep funding and are gearing up for another major round of growth.

Our offices are in the historic Hobart Building. We are centrally located at Market & Montgomery, right on top of a BART station with epic views of Market Street, AT&T Park, and the surrounding Financial District.

Job Overview

We are looking for a unique individual to join our team as a full-time senior web developer to work on our proprietary code base.

About You:

• You are an expert LAMP developer and have over six years of experience coding customer-facing web applications

• You have expert OOP skills including working knowledge of common design patterns

• You have the skill set to roll your own MVC framework

• You are fluent in front-end technologies (CSS, XHTML/HTML) and JS frameworks

• You are most productive working in a fast-pasted, iterative UNIX environment

• You are not afraid to embrace new technologies and prefer to use whatever tool is the right one for the job

• You have superior problem solving and organizational skills and pay attention to detail

• You liked Betty White long before her recent meteoric rise in popularity

The Position:

• Develop new features and technology by writing extensible, modular classes in PHP and creating well-formed database schemas in MySQL

• Integrate 3rd party tools and APIs to enhance core platform and provide new services and functionality for production e-commerce B2B websites

• Maintain and refactor existing application for performance and scalability in a high-traffic environment

• Write tools and scripts for department heads on an as needed basis

• Debug and test code using a wide variety of open source and custom tools
• Document new and existing code using PHPDocs and MediaWiki

• Commit and push code on a daily basis in a Subversion source control environment

• Use in-house proprietary tools to track, log and communicate project status to team

• Use Exchange email and shared calendar/appointment system to manage and respond to interoffice requests

• Be accountable for several projects in different stages of the development cycle with little supervision

• Must be able to handle challenges in an upbeat and positive manner when changing requirements and quirky personalities are part of your every day

Extra Credit:

• Experience with Imagick, MemCached or Sphinx

• Experience with internationalization and character encoding

• Experience in the Promotional Marketing / Ad Specialties industry

Please provide your resume, salary requirements, and referrals from your previous employers to jobs@creativemerch.com with “Senior Web Developer” as the subject. Please also answer this question: What is your favorite type of sandwich and why? We will not accept candidates that live outside of the Bay Area and please, no phone calls about this job.

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Sr Web Developer (financial district)

April 20, 2010

in Development Jobs, Web Developer

About Creative Merchandise

Creative Merchandise (www.creativemerch.com) is the leading web hosting and company store platform for the promotional products industry. We maintain a wide and diverse user base, and are responsible for hosting thousands of mission critical B2B websites. Although we’ve been around for nearly seven years, we still maintain our startup energy and mentality. We have deep funding and are gearing up for another major round of growth.

Our offices are in the historic Hobart Building. We are centrally located at Market & Montgomery, right on top of a BART station with epic views of Market Street, AT&T Park, and the surrounding Financial District.

Job Overview

We are looking for a unique individual to join our team as a full-time senior web developer to work on our proprietary code base.

About You:

• You are an expert LAMP developer and have over six years of experience coding customer-facing web applications

• You have expert OOP skills including working knowledge of common design patterns

• You have the skill set to roll your own MVC framework

• You are fluent in front-end technologies (CSS, XHTML/HTML) and JS frameworks

• You are most productive working in a fast-pasted, iterative UNIX environment

• You are not afraid to embrace new technologies and prefer to use whatever tool is the right one for the job

• You have superior problem solving and organizational skills and pay attention to detail

• You liked Betty White long before her recent meteoric rise in popularity

The Position:

• Develop new features and technology by writing extensible, modular classes in PHP and creating well-formed database schemas in MySQL

• Integrate 3rd party tools and APIs to enhance core platform and provide new services and functionality for production e-commerce B2B websites

• Maintain and refactor existing application for performance and scalability in a high-traffic environment

• Write tools and scripts for department heads on an as needed basis

• Debug and test code using a wide variety of open source and custom tools
• Document new and existing code using PHPDocs and MediaWiki

• Commit and push code on a daily basis in a Subversion source control environment

• Use in-house proprietary tools to track, log and communicate project status to team

• Use Exchange email and shared calendar/appointment system to manage and respond to interoffice requests

• Be accountable for several projects in different stages of the development cycle with little supervision

• Must be able to handle challenges in an upbeat and positive manner when changing requirements and quirky personalities are part of your every day

Extra Credit:

• Experience with Imagick, MemCached or Sphinx

• Experience with internationalization and character encoding

• Experience in the Promotional Marketing / Ad Specialties industry

Please provide your resume, salary requirements, and referrals from your previous employers to jobs@creativemerch.com with “Senior Web Developer” as the subject. Please also answer this question: What is your favorite type of sandwich and why? We will not accept candidates that live outside of the Bay Area and please, no phone calls about this job.

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Jr. Web Developer (financial district)

April 19, 2010

in Development Jobs, Web Developer

About Creative Merchandise

Creative Merchandise (www.creativemerch.com) is the leading web hosting and company store platform for the promotional products industry. We maintain a wide and diverse user base, and are responsible for hosting thousands of mission critical B2B websites. Although we’ve been around for nearly seven years, we still maintain our startup energy and mentality. We have deep funding and are gearing up for another major round of growth.

Our offices are in the historic Hobart Building. We are centrally located at Market & Montgomery, right on top of a BART station with epic views of Market Street, AT&T Park, and the surrounding Financial District.

Job Overview

We are looking for a unique individual to join our team as a full-time web developer to work on our proprietary code base. While the code is mature and flexible, it often requires customizations on a per client basis. Your main task will be to see these projects from start to finish by making use of a wide range of skills from customer service and time management to internet research and back-end development. Aside from heading these projects and meeting the required deadlines, you will be responsible for communicating and logging your work to the CM team via in-house software applications.

The natural ebb and flow of client projects will be up and down throughout the year. During the downtime, you will work with our engineers to document and enhance our core application.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain real-world PHP/MySQL experiences that covers a broad range of topics and technologies. So if you are just out of school or transitioning careers, then this position will be a good fit!

Requirements:

• You code in PHP (2+ years)

• You have a solid working knowledge of SQL

• You code HTML and CSS by hand and have a basic understanding of cross browser technologies

• You have great customer service skills; including ability to explain technical subjects to non-savvy clients in an friendly yet informative tone

• You want to gain a lot of experience, in many different technologies, in a short amount of time

• You are a good listener and pay attention to details

• You like having rock star views of downtown San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Respond to clients’ requests via Exchange email system in a timely manner

• Schedule conferences with clients and 3rd parties to discuss and define custom projects

• Work with in-house designers and front-end programmers to complete projects

• Use in-house software applications to track projects and communicate status

• Add PHP-based customizations to the existing code base

• Document existing code base using the in-house Wiki

• Provide in-depth reports on new technologies and coding problems

• Assist development team in new feature roll-outs and core updates to the system

Pluses:

• Experience working in UNIX operating systems

• Experience working in MediaWiki or equivalent wiki software.

• Experience in the Promotional Marketing / Ad Specialties industry

Please provide your resume, salary requirements, and referrals from your previous employers to jobs@creativemerch.com with “Junior Web Developer” as the subject. Please also answer this question: If you could only save one of them from a goomba, would it be Mario or Luigi. We will not accept candidates that live outside of the Bay Area and please, no phone calls about this job.

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Jr Web Developer (financial district)

April 19, 2010

in Development Jobs, Web Developer

About Creative Merchandise

Creative Merchandise (www.creativemerch.com) is the leading web hosting and company store platform for the promotional products industry. We maintain a wide and diverse user base, and are responsible for hosting thousands of mission critical B2B websites. Although we’ve been around for nearly seven years, we still maintain our startup energy and mentality. We have deep funding and are gearing up for another major round of growth.

Our offices are in the historic Hobart Building. We are centrally located at Market & Montgomery, right on top of a BART station with epic views of Market Street, AT&T Park, and the surrounding Financial District.

Job Overview

We are looking for a unique individual to join our team as a full-time web developer to work on our proprietary code base. While the code is mature and flexible, it often requires customizations on a per client basis. Your main task will be to see these projects from start to finish by making use of a wide range of skills from customer service and time management to internet research and back-end development. Aside from heading these projects and meeting the required deadlines, you will be responsible for communicating and logging your work to the CM team via in-house software applications.

The natural ebb and flow of client projects will be up and down throughout the year. During the downtime, you will work with our engineers to document and enhance our core application.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain real-world PHP/MySQL experiences that covers a broad range of topics and technologies. So if you are just out of school or transitioning careers, then this position will be a good fit!

Requirements:

• You code in PHP (2+ years)

• You have a solid working knowledge of SQL

• You code HTML and CSS by hand and have a basic understanding of cross browser technologies

• You have great customer service skills; including ability to explain technical subjects to non-savvy clients in an friendly yet informative tone

• You want to gain a lot of experience, in many different technologies, in a short amount of time

• You are a good listener and pay attention to details

• You like having rock star views of downtown San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Respond to clients’ requests via Exchange email system in a timely manner

• Schedule conferences with clients and 3rd parties to discuss and define custom projects

• Work with in-house designers and front-end programmers to complete projects

• Use in-house software applications to track projects and communicate status

• Add PHP-based customizations to the existing code base

• Document existing code base using the in-house Wiki

• Provide in-depth reports on new technologies and coding problems

• Assist development team in new feature roll-outs and core updates to the system

Pluses:

• Experience working in UNIX operating systems

• Experience working in MediaWiki or equivalent wiki software.

• Experience in the Promotional Marketing / Ad Specialties industry

Please provide your resume, salary requirements, and referrals from your previous employers to jobs@creativemerch.com with “Junior Web Developer” as the subject. Please also answer this question: If you could only save one of them from a goomba, would it be Mario or Luigi. We will not accept candidates that live outside of the Bay Area and please, no phone calls about this job.

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CCRO: Web Developer (PHP & Rails)

April 17, 2010

in HTML, Programming Jobs

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Location: The Woodlands, TX (near Houston)
URL: http://www.ccro.org

ABOUT US:

Our offices are located on Market Street in The Woodlands, Texas. The Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO) is an independent non-profit corporation of member companies. In its sixth year of business, the CCRO is today recognized in and around the industry as a premier source for independent, expert practitioner knowledge and perspective.

OBJECTIVES:

◊ Build and support web based apps.
◊ Deliver on projects quickly and efficiently.
◊ Be an integral part from concept to delivery.

TRAITS OF A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES:

◊ A love of beautiful code!
◊ Enjoy small, fast-paced development groups where communication and teamwork is critical.
◊ You thrive on hard challenges.
◊ You get joy out of creating elegant solutions to problems with seemingly impossible constraints and goals.
◊ You understand and embrace the startup lifestyle. Being part of a successful startup is a lifestyle choice, not a job choice.
◊ Enjoys working in an iterative development environment.

MUST HAVE:

◊ Relevant experience as a web developer
◊ PHP & Ruby on Rails
◊ Highly proficient cross-browser JavaScript programmer with effective debugging skills
◊ Ability to code HTML and CSS in your sleep
◊ Ability to develop intuitive and reliable management and dashboard/reporting interfaces
◊ Highly proficient in deploying on top of LAMP

NICE TO HAVE:

◊ Experience working with large amounts of data or other highly scalable techniques / technologies.
◊ Mac – We are a 100% Mac office. While we don’t require it, your life will be much easier.
◊ Advanced MySQL DBA skills – performance optimization, replication, archiving, etc.
◊ Have worked at a startup company.
◊ You’ve been an entrepreneur – successful or otherwise
◊ Active in the community – real life, open source, tech meetups, etc.

WE OFFER:

◊ A real opportunity to make a difference. You’ll be part of a small, powerful team.
◊ The room and tools you need to create and succeed.
◊ The chance to work on innovative and progressive technology.
◊ A great environment with great people.

READY TO APPLY?

We are committed to building the best team possible and the best company possible. We care just as much about where you are going as where you came from. And although we’re a fast moving startup, we take our time to find the right people.

If you’d like to apply, please introduce yourself via email. We like simple, honest and straight to the point information.

Please include:

◊ An intro on why we should work together.
◊ Tell us how you meet the requirements and which (if any) “nice to have” items apply.
◊ Show us what you’ve created. Links to portfolios, products you’ve worked on, interesting code snippets, etc.
◊ Your resume, LinkedIn, Twitter, blog, etc.
◊ The future. What do you want? Why?

We are not accepting candidates from recruiting agencies.

Also, we are not interested in offers from consultants. The position is for a full-time, on-site employment only.

To apply: Email jobs@ccro.org

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Web Designer SideReelcom (SOMA south beach)

April 12, 2010

in Design Jobs, Web Design

About us: 
Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world. SideReel is a great place to work, too. We are a small established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits.

About the job:
We are looking for a talented frontend web designer to work closely with our product and engineering teams. We need your passion for design to craft an amazing user experience. You should be able to take concepts from the initial mockup stages, translate them in Photoshop using your visual creativity and web design skills, and then export them for the web. Knowledge of HTML/CSS and modern AJAX techniques is a definite bonus, but not a strict requirement.

Ideally, you should be just as skilled at Photoshopping beautiful graphics for the web as you are at designing killer user experiences and UI. If you consider great web design to be a work of art like we do, come join us!

Some of the projects you’ll tackle with our team: Visual design of new site features Improvements to current layout and UI design Create mockups and prototypes Observe and apply results from usability studies Occasional graphics for branding and presentations Requirements:

BA in design or equivalent experience
Web/graphic design experience
Adobe CS proficiency
Please send your resume, portfolio and answers to the following questions to jobs@sidereel.com

What is one design feature on SideReel that you would improve and why?
What websites (apart from your own work) do you consider to have great designs in terms of both UI and aesthetics? Why?
What makes for a great visual and functional user experience on the web?

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Web Designer @ SideReel.com (SOMA / south beach)

April 12, 2010

in HTML, Programming Jobs

About us: 
Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world. SideReel is a great place to work, too. We are a small established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits.

About the job:
We are looking for a talented frontend web designer to work closely with our product and engineering teams. We need your passion for design to craft an amazing user experience. You should be able to take concepts from the initial mockup stages, translate them in Photoshop using your visual creativity and web design skills, and then export them for the web. Knowledge of HTML/CSS and modern AJAX techniques is a definite bonus, but not a strict requirement.

Ideally, you should be just as skilled at Photoshopping beautiful graphics for the web as you are at designing killer user experiences and UI. If you consider great web design to be a work of art like we do, come join us!

Some of the projects you’ll tackle with our team:

  • Visual design of new site features
  • Improvements to current layout and UI design
  • Create mockups and prototypes
  • Observe and apply results from usability studies
  • Occasional graphics for branding and presentations

Requirements:

  • BA in design or equivalent experience
  • Web/graphic design experience
  • Adobe CS proficiency

Please send your resume, portfolio and answers to the following questions to jobs@sidereel.com

  • What is one design feature on SideReel that you would improve and why?
  • What websites (apart from your own work) do you consider to have great designs in terms of both UI and aesthetics? Why?
  • What makes for a great visual and functional user experience on the web?

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Web UI Frontend Designer (SOMA)

March 25, 2010

in Design Jobs, Interface/Interaction Designer

About us: SideReel is a great place to work. We are a small established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits. Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world.

About the job:
We are looking for a talented web designer to work closely with product management and engineering. We need your passion for design to craft an amazing user experience by applying your knowledge of design and UI to build frontend features up from the initial mockup stages, to Photoshop and the web. Knowledge of HTML/CSS and modern AJAX techniques is a definite bonus.

Ideally, you should be just as skilled at designing killer user experiences and UI flows as you are at Photoshopping beautiful graphics for the web. If you consider great UI to be a work of art like we do, come join us!

Some of the projects you’ll tackle with our team: Design new features for the site Improve current site features Redesign site UI for an ideal user experience Create mockups and prototypes Participate in usability studies Occasional graphics for branding and presentations
Requirements:

BA in design or equivalent experience
UI/UX experience
Web design experience
Adobe CS proficiency
Please send your resume, portfolio and answers to the following questions to jobs@sidereel.com

What is one UI feature on SideReel that you would improve and why?
What websites (apart from your own work) do you consider to have great designs in terms of both UI and aesthetics?
What makes for a great user experience on the web?

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Web UI / Frontend Designer (SOMA)

March 25, 2010

in Design Jobs, Web Design

About us: SideReel is a great place to work. We are a small established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits. Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world.

About the job:
We are looking for a talented web designer to work closely with product management and engineering. We need your passion for design to craft an amazing user experience by applying your knowledge of design and UI to build frontend features up from the initial mockup stages, to Photoshop and the web. Knowledge of HTML/CSS and modern AJAX techniques is a definite bonus.

Ideally, you should be just as skilled at designing killer user experiences and UI flows as you are at Photoshopping beautiful graphics for the web. If you consider great UI to be a work of art like we do, come join us!

Some of the projects you’ll tackle with our team:

  • Design new features for the site
  • Improve current site features
  • Redesign site UI for an ideal user experience
  • Create mockups and prototypes
  • Participate in usability studies
  • Occasional graphics for branding and presentations

Requirements:

  • BA in design or equivalent experience
  • UI/UX experience
  • Web design experience
  • Adobe CS proficiency

Please send your resume, portfolio and answers to the following questions to jobs@sidereel.com

  • What is one UI feature on SideReel that you would improve and why?
  • What websites (apart from your own work) do you consider to have great designs in terms of both UI and aesthetics?
  • What makes for a great user experience on the web?

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Web UI Frontend Designer (SOMA)

March 25, 2010

in Design Jobs, Web Design

About us: SideReel is a great place to work. We are a small established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits. Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world.

About the job:
We are looking for a talented web designer to work closely with product management and engineering. We need your passion for design to craft an amazing user experience by applying your knowledge of design and UI to build frontend features up from the initial mockup stages, to Photoshop and the web. Knowledge of HTML/CSS and modern AJAX techniques is a definite bonus.

Ideally, you should be just as skilled at designing killer user experiences and UI flows as you are at Photoshopping beautiful graphics for the web. If you consider great UI to be a work of art like we do, come join us!

Some of the projects you’ll tackle with our team: Design new features for the site Improve current site features Redesign site UI for an ideal user experience Create mockups and prototypes Participate in usability studies Occasional graphics for branding and presentations
Requirements:

BA in design or equivalent experience
UI/UX experience
Web design experience
Adobe CS proficiency
Please send your resume, portfolio and answers to the following questions to jobs@sidereel.com

What is one UI feature on SideReel that you would improve and why?
What websites (apart from your own work) do you consider to have great designs in terms of both UI and aesthetics?
What makes for a great user experience on the web?

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CCRO: Junior Web Developer

March 9, 2010

in Development Jobs, Web Developer

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Location: The Woodlands, TX
URL: http://www.ccro.org

ABOUT US:

Our offices are located on Market Street in The Woodlands, Texas. The Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO) is an independent non-profit corporation of member companies. In its sixth year of business, the CCRO is today recognized in and around the industry as a premier source for independent, expert practitioner knowledge and perspective.

OBJECTIVES:

◊ Build and support web based apps.
◊ Deliver on projects quickly and efficiently.
◊ Be an integral part from concept to delivery.

TRAITS OF A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES:

◊ A love of beautiful code!
◊ Enjoy small, fast-paced development groups where communication and teamwork is critical.
◊ You thrive on hard challenges.
◊ You get joy out of creating elegant solutions to problems with seemingly impossible constraints and goals.
◊ You understand and embrace the startup lifestyle. Being part of a successful startup is a lifestyle choice, not a job choice.
◊ Enjoys working in an iterative development environment.

MUST HAVE:

◊ Relevant experience as a web developer
◊ Object oriented PHP v5 programmer
◊ Highly proficient cross-browser JavaScript programmer with effective debugging skills
◊ Ability to code HTML and CSS in your sleep
◊ Ability to develop intuitive and reliable management and dashboard/reporting interfaces
◊ Highly proficient in deploying on top of LAMP

NICE TO HAVE:

◊ Significant experience with Ruby on Rails.
◊ Experience working with large amounts of data or other highly scalable techniques / technologies.
◊ Mac – We are a 100% Mac office. While we don’t require it, your life will be much easier.
◊ Advanced MySQL DBA skills – performance optimization, replication, archiving, etc.
◊ Have worked at a startup company.
◊ You’ve been an entrepreneur – successful or otherwise
◊ Active in the community – real life, open source, tech meetups, etc.

WE OFFER:

◊ A real opportunity to make a difference. You’ll be part of a small, powerful team.
◊ The room and tools you need to create and succeed.
◊ The chance to work on innovative and progressive technology.
◊ A great environment with great people.

READY TO APPLY?

We are committed to building the best team possible and the best company possible. We care just as much about where you are going as where you came from. And although we’re a fast moving startup, we take our time to find the right people.

If you’d like to apply, please introduce yourself via email. We like simple, honest and straight to the point information.

Please include:

◊ An intro on why we should work together.
◊ Tell us how you meet the requirements and which (if any) “nice to have” items apply.
◊ Show us what you’ve created. Links to portfolios, products you’ve worked on, interesting code snippets, etc.
◊ Your resume, LinkedIn, Twitter, blog, etc.
◊ The future. What do you want? Why?

We are not accepting candidates from recruiting agencies.

To apply: Email jobs@ccro.org

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Video Production Assistant (temporary position) (downtown / civic / van ness)

November 25, 2009

in HTML, Programming Jobs

Founded in 2000, Teachscape is a leading educational consulting firm, providing a range of solutions that drive increasing levels of student achievement by building the knowledge and skills of instructional leaders and teachers. We are located in downtown San Francisco on Market Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for day-to-day video production assistance. This department is responsible for the production of marketing collateral and other print materials and video production and web-development for Teachscape¡¦s public website and multi-media based content. You will focus on editing assistant type work for video production, handling video requests from flash conversion project, and providing administrative support for maintenance of production database.

This includes:

• Gather and integrate data onto Filemaker database

• Collect master videos, final cut pro projects, and associated assets onto main transcoding hard drive, and re-edit where needed

• Track video file name changes and detail repurposed video trail

• Transcode quicktime movies to h.264

• Video Production: Digitize tapes from field production for video editing

• General production assistance to support on-time delivery of all projects in the department.

• Web Development: Complete QA testing for courses scheduled for release

Requirements:

• Detail oriented and excellent organizational skills

• Must have working knowledge of Final Cut Pro and Compressor

• Basic familiarity with a variety of graphic design, video and/or web development software and willingness to learn new software applications:

• Familiarity with InDesign and Photoshop a plus

• Familiarity with basic HTML – CSS, Java, Unix and Flash are a plus

• Familiarity with After Effects and Flash are a plus

• Ability to take direction and to work independently, but also collaborate with others as part of the product development team

• Familiarity with Mac and Windows

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@teachscape.com

Teachscape is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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CSSHTMLJavascript OnSite Contractor Needed (Denver, CO)

November 17, 2009

in Java and JavaScript, Programming Jobs

Ever use or heard of the site MapMyRun.com? What about MapMyRide.com, MapMyHike.com or MapMyWalk.com?

We are MapMyFitness, Inc — an innovative start-up that provides web-based tools for people to get fit and stay fit by visualizing their workouts. Map your routes, calculate calories, fly your routes in Google Earth, and even keep a log of your workouts and track weight loss, monthly mileage, and more!

Ok, enough with the elevator pitch… Bottom line is that we are a fun, fitness-oriented company looking for a like-minded html/css/javascript contractor to help our team in the Denver, CO area. We have tons of new stuff planned and we need your help! This is an on-site 6-8 week on-site contract job starting immediately with the potential of longer term work.

The successful applicant will :

—————-
- work closely with the UI/UX team and take Photoshop PSD’s to fully functioning HTML/CSS templates

- be responsible for advanced javascript ui/front-end development using libraries like jQuery, etc.

- be involved in building cutting-edge web apps

Applicant must:

—————-
- have experience developing cross-browser javascript for web sites and web applications.
- have experience with advanced css design, table-less layouts (960grid), and cross-browser css workarounds

- show ability to get by without using a framework (jQuery, Prototype, etc)

- show strong knowledge of jQuery. Knowledge of other JS frameworks (eg. Prototype, YUI, Mootools, etc) is a plus but not required.

- be familiar with best-practices of html, css and javascript, as they relate to performance

- demonstrate self-motivation and initiative

Job Requirements
—————-
A minimum of two years experience. Must have documented ability to deliver working products. Must have live code to demonstrate.
Entrepreneurial spirit with a self-starter attitude is a must have.

YOU MUST HAVE REFERENCES AS WE WILL NEED TO CONTACT THEM.

Location
——–
This is a 6-8 week ON-SITE contract job. The MapMyFitness Office is located off the 16th street mall by Market Street Bus Station.
We will not respond to any other outside inquiry or inquiries by 3rd parties.

To Apply
——–
- Send Resume

- Send Cover Letter

- Send links to existing sites or include sample code

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CSS/HTML/Javascript On-Site Contractor Needed! (Denver, CO)

November 17, 2009

in HTML, Programming Jobs

Ever use or heard of the site MapMyRun.com? What about MapMyRide.com, MapMyHike.com or MapMyWalk.com?

We are MapMyFitness, Inc — an innovative start-up that provides web-based tools for people to get fit and stay fit by visualizing their workouts. Map your routes, calculate calories, fly your routes in Google Earth, and even keep a log of your workouts and track weight loss, monthly mileage, and more!

Ok, enough with the elevator pitch… Bottom line is that we are a fun, fitness-oriented company looking for a like-minded html/css/javascript contractor to help our team in the Denver, CO area. We have tons of new stuff planned and we need your help! This is an on-site 6-8 week on-site contract job starting immediately with the potential of longer term work.

The successful applicant will :

—————-
- work closely with the UI/UX team and take Photoshop PSD’s to fully functioning HTML/CSS templates

- be responsible for advanced javascript ui/front-end development using libraries like jQuery, etc.

- be involved in building cutting-edge web apps

Applicant must:

—————-
- have experience developing cross-browser javascript for web sites and web applications.
- have experience with advanced css design, table-less layouts (960grid), and cross-browser css workarounds

- show ability to get by without using a framework (jQuery, Prototype, etc)

- show strong knowledge of jQuery. Knowledge of other JS frameworks (eg. Prototype, YUI, Mootools, etc) is a plus but not required.

- be familiar with best-practices of html, css and javascript, as they relate to performance

- demonstrate self-motivation and initiative

Job Requirements
—————-
A minimum of two years experience. Must have documented ability to deliver working products. Must have live code to demonstrate.
Entrepreneurial spirit with a self-starter attitude is a must have.

YOU MUST HAVE REFERENCES AS WE WILL NEED TO CONTACT THEM.

Location
——–
This is a 6-8 week ON-SITE contract job. The MapMyFitness Office is located off the 16th street mall by Market Street Bus Station.
We will not respond to any other outside inquiry or inquiries by 3rd parties.

To Apply
——–
- Send Resume

- Send Cover Letter

- Send links to existing sites or include sample code

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