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Nick Hanauer, one of my investors, and the founder of aQuantive (acquired by Microsoft for $6B making it Microsoft’s biggest acquisition to date), is starting a new company looking for two developers for his new company. Knowing Nick, this company will be big.  Interested parties should send their resumes to wassef AT haroun DOT com.

Front-End Web Application Engineer

King of The Web is a ground breaking social games company that’s looking for people who will help us change the entertainment landscape.

We’re looking for a front-end web application engineers with a track record and passion for developing pixel perfect implementations that are attractive, slick, polished,  highly responsive and addictive.

You have:
- A keen eye for design; having excellent design skills is a bonus
- Experience using modern AJAX libraries like Dojo, Django, lazslo, Closure and Ruby/Python/C/C++/Apache/Linux server side technologies
- 3+ years building and designing web applications with live reviewable examples
- A strong understanding of user recruitment,  capture, activity and optimal web flows for subscription, registration, payment, search and browsing activities
- Ability to accurately translate even minute details of a design to code that work in all major browsers and major platforms
- Experience with best practices for cutting up and styling layouts – bonus points for CSS3 and AJAX experience

In addition, you show strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work on multiple related project simultaneously

An advanced degree in computer science or related discipline is required.

What You’ll Do:
- Work with a world class team to develop and review specs and requirements from both internal and external sources
- Develop core rich media web application framework to support “episodic” experiences that mix editorial rich content with user contributed content
- Implement designs from Photoshop/HTMLS/Spec into high quality XHTML/CSS/jscript at warp speed upon existing templates or from scratch, when necessary
- Fulfill requests from product management, support and through direct feedback regarding bugs, experience enhancement, additional features and follow on episode planning
- Producing clean, unit tested, high quality, standard compliant code, and generating clean requirements for scalable RESTFUL API/back end SQL and Cloud based object and database systems

Web Service Engineer:

King of The Web is a ground breaking social games company that’s looking for people who will help us change the entertainment landscape.

We’re looking for a Web Service Engineer with a track record of building and maintaining large scale dynamic web services.

You have:
- 5+ years or more of software development experience
- Strong analytic skills
- Strong ability to solve problems in imaginative as well as practical ways
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work on multiple overlapped projects concurrently
- Ability to work both individually and as part of a team with internal/external members
- Ability to create and follow project plans and schedules with a proven track record of delivering on-time
- Strong interest and currency in media technologies

Requirements:
- An advanced degree in Computer Science, Math or related field
- Past experience in at least one of the following areas – Network topologies with variety of TCP/IP protocols and clients,  Information Retrieval, Data Mining, cloud deployment and scale technologies
- Experience with building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
- Strong design and coding skills in C/C++ on Linux/Unix and PC client Platforms.
- Familiar with Perl, Python and have a good understanding of SQL.
- Proficiency in C, C++, Javascript, Java  and other high-level object-oriented language.
- Strong understanding and development experience with common internet delivery protocols desired such as: HTTP, SSL/TLS, UDP, TCP/IP, RTSP, RTP, RTCP, RTMP
- Strong understanding and development experience with web development technologies desired such as: App Engine, Servlets, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, JSP, PHP, Tomcat , Apache
- Development experience with video applications desired such as: HTML5, Flash, ActionScript, FMS, H.264, Http Live Streaming, RTSP
- Development experience with relational databases desired

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with product management,  marketing teams to develop core roadmap and release phases, develop a framework for resourcing current and future release investments
- Develop, unit test and implement complex software from the ground up
- Understand, review, provide feedback and contribute to software documentation
- Research and evaluate new technologies and solutions
- Be a technical leader and core services architect for the team, sharing responsibility with other senior team members for resolving technical problems.

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