About the Job: Web Service Engineer Location: Seattle WA - Local Candidates Only Employment Type: Full-Time Compensation: Competitive FTE salary with early stage equity We need people that are smart, creative, funny and technology driven. Be amused. Be moved. Help shape the way people play online. We''re looking for a Web Service Engineer with a track record of building and maintaining large scale dynamic web services. You must be a technical leader and core services architect for the team, sharing responsibility with other senior team members for resolving technical problems. You will develop, unit test and implement complex software from the ground up. This position will work with product management and marketing teams to develop core road map and release phases, develop a framework for resourcing current and future release investments. Candidates must understand, review, provide feedback and contribute to software documentation as well as continually research and evaluate new technologies and solutions. Requirements: - 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 Experience: - A 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, Ruby 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: Ruby on Rails, 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 Benefits and Perks: ● Our jobs are really fun. Seriously. ● We don’t offer any medical, dental or vision. But we will share our expertise on how to pay for health care on your own that’s better than what a small start-up like ourselves can offer. ● Stock options aren’t worth anything yet but have the potential to make you really rich someday. ● We have very few office supplies and zero free soft drinks... ● BUT we don’t work crazy hours and we get to enjoy time with our families as much as we enjoy watching viral videos. Send resume and project urls to techcyn-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.