Somewhere in Hollywood

This entire Assignments entry is dedicated to one client. He’s a lovely gentleman, so I thought it fitting.

Firm/Organization: Social Media Startup
Location: Hollywood, CA
Miscellany: Solid management team, funding, growth, and record. Environment and culture built on collaboration, problem-solving, and pop-culture.

Click below to see the position descriptions, namely Senior Interactive Designer, Interactive Designer, Flash Engineer, Web/DHTML Engineer, Web/Server Engineer, Client Engineer, Database Engineer, Network Operations Engineer, Software Development Engineer, and Software Test Engineer.

Technorati Tags: creative, design, development, interactive, technical, web

Senior Interactive Designer

The skill is design, and a proven track record. The tools are CSS and HTML.

Interactive Designer

The skill is design, and a proven track record. The tools are CSS and HTML.

Flash Engineer

We’re looking for a Flash developer who has a passion for music and experience in shipping complex Flash applications. You can also help take our “Widgets” to the next level. Tons of improvements and cool features to make in our flash software, but we need hard-core engineers to do this, this is predominantly an engineering role, not a design role. The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

3+ years experience as a Flash developer (this is more of an engineering role than a design role)

Deeply familiar with ActionScript

College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a programmer

Extra credit: Photoshop experience, ability to create beautiful designs

Extra credit: DHTML/AJAX skills

Web/DHTML Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced Web engineer who has a passion for DHTML and Javascript/AJAX user-interface programming. If you see examples of AJAX/DHTML and your first thought is to look at the HTML source to see how they did it and how you can improve it, let’s talk! The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a computer programmer

Significant experience and skill writing Web applications including DHTML/Javascript/AJAX front-end code

Deep understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX

Able to implement server-side XML-generating subroutines and the associated client-code for interactive AJAX applications

Demonstrable skill at (and passion for) creating simple yet dynamic user interfaces in DHTML

Extra-credit: Macromedia Flash scripting

Extra-credit: server-side web/database programming

Web/Server Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who has a passion for Web programming and wants to help us extend the features on the site. There are tons of cool things we can do on this site, we’re only half-way done! We are using LAMP as our development platform, so we’d love to hire somebody who has experience with LAMP technologies (or a passion for learning it). The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a computer programmer

Significant experience and skill writing Web services - back-end and front-end

Deep understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS

Deep understanding of scalable Web server and database architectures

Website programming experience, particularly Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP

Demonstrable skill at (and passion for) creating scalable web services or web sites

Extra-credit: DHTML/AJAX programming

Client Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced client-code engineer to write software that integrates with popular media-player / media-library software on Windows and Macintosh computers. We want your help to extend the site’s music experience (on Windows and Mac both), as well as to help build support for other less-popular platforms (WinAMP, WindowsMediaPlayer, etc). The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a computer programmer

Significant experience and skill writing Windows client code - C/C++ and Win32 APIs

Deep experience with at least one major media player (iTunes, Windows Media Player, WinAMP, etc)

Good understanding of Web client-server APIs such as basic HTML, XML/HTTP, RPC over HTTP, etc

Extra-credit: Macintosh coding experience

Extra-credit: server-side web/database programming

Software Test Engineer

We’re looking for a software tester with experience and passion for testing client-side applications. The core responsibility of this job is testing our platform, helping us find bugs and test new releases before they’re released to the public. In addition, broad testing of the various features across the site and partners blog sites are also part of this job. The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

College degree in C.S. or E.E. or 1-4 years experience as a software tester or similarly technical role

Experience and passion for client-side testing, including strong knowledge of WindowsXP and Mac OS/X

Good understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX

Passion for music and computer technology in general, particularly iTunes and social-networking websites

Software Development Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who has experience in server-side stress tests, performance, monitoring, etc, as well as client-side testing. We’re really looking for somebody who is both a tester and an engineer, somebody who can take on hard coding problems as well as testing problems. The key responsibility of this role will be to stress-test the site’s servers to help us achieve faster performance and higher scalability. The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 2-4 years industry experience as a computer programmer

Significant experience and skill in server-side performance / stress tests

Good understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX

Significant experience with web server/db systems, preferably Linux + MySQL

Passion for software engineering, testing, and finding bugs

Network Operations Engineer

If you’ve got experience and passion for installing, debugging, maintaining, and stress-testing complex server system, we want to talk to you. We’re looking for an experienced netops engineer with experience in setting up and maintaining a Linux/MySQL web-server backend. We’re really looking for somebody who has reasonable engineering experience, ideally somebody who can also write monitoring tools, and who can debug and solve system-level problems. The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a network operations engineer

Significant experience and skill in the deployment and management of web-server and database systems

Specific experience with Linux and MySQL

Good understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX

Database Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced database engineer who has deep experience with databases, performance, data-mining, data modeling. We are collecting a jaw-dropping amount of data about consumer music-listening habits, and there are amazing things we can do with this data, we want your help! The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a database engineer

Significant experience and skill writing database applications either Oracle, SQL Server, ideally MySQL

Experience in data modeling, data mining, and database performance tuning

Understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX

Solid programming skills (C/C++, or PERL, or ideally PHP)