Company: MyFit
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
URL: http://www.myfit.com
Type: Full-time
Experience: Mid-Senior level
Industries: Computer Software, Education Management, Information Technology and Services, Internet, Higher Education
Job Code: MF-1006-WJE
Job Description
MyFit is building an Online College Advisor. Come help building this revolutionary tool that will enable high-school students to plan effectively their entry into college.
Love building simple and beautifully useable sites?
Can you program in Javascript and produce working & beautiful code?
Hacking JSP, JSTL & jQuery to construct dynamic web pages is your idea of fun?
Creating custom tags doesn't scare you?
Are you interested in joining a small focused team delivering high performance world-class computational engines involved in quantitative and predictive matching of students and college?
If so, MyFit wants to talk to you! We are growing our engineering team.
Position Overview
MyFit is looking for a Web Java Front End Senior software engineer to grow and scale its web environment. We use Spring MVC, JSP, JSTL, jQuery, Java in the front end as well as Hibernate, Lucene, Clojure, MySQL and MongoDB on our backend. This is a critical role in the MyFit core engineering team and represents a significant opportunity to grow inside the company.
Responsibilities
Make it cool: Code our page design into wonderful user experience
Make it work: No bugs. High Quality. That's all we ask for.
Coach the team: Help the people on the team learn how to do it better
Teamwork: Work with our cross-functional team to continuously enhance our features and ideas
Benefits
We offer a competitive package, including a stock option program and a comprehensive benefits package. We never forget the individuals involved in helping us achieve our goals. We are not just looking for another member of our team, we are looking for someone we can call a friend.
Come join MyFit.com!
Skills
We do a technical interview with everyone. So be preferred to demonstrate your core skills in:
Front End: Spring MVC, JSP, JSTL, jQuery
Javascript & jQuery
Algorithms & Problem Solving
We usually expect
4+ years of software engineering in a team
2+ years of Agile software development life-cycle
Need to be detail-oriented, resourceful & work well under pressure
Excellent English verbal & written communication skills
MS/BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or Equivalent
Expert Level Skills and Experience (4+ years) with JSP/JSTL Web Development, Javascript / jQuery Front End Coding, Agile Development
Key understanding of Web Engineering & Data Processing
Company Description
MyFit (www.myfit.com) was started by students to create a free service for students suffering through college application process by empowering them with comprehensive analytics and predictive modeling with the evidence to support the conclusions.
On a broader scale, MyFit aims to offer a powerful analytical and planning platform to students and parents as well as colleges, to help them make better decisions, informed by data, more quickly.
MyFit is an early-stage venture backed by a top tier venture capital firm (NEA) and is recruiting employees for our Mountain View, CA office. We are small team building great software. We leverage and contribute to open source. We run on the cloud. We are working hard to build an awesome company culture, something that will be largely defined by the people who join us now.
Additional Information
No third party applications.
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Location: San Francisco Bay Area
URL: http://www.myfit.com
Type: Full-time
Experience: Mid-Senior level
Industries: Computer Software, Education Management, Information Technology and Services, Internet, Higher Education
Job Code: MF-1006-WJE
Job Description
MyFit is building an Online College Advisor. Come help building this revolutionary tool that will enable high-school students to plan effectively their entry into college.
Love building simple and beautifully useable sites?
Can you program in Javascript and produce working & beautiful code?
Hacking JSP, JSTL & jQuery to construct dynamic web pages is your idea of fun?
Creating custom tags doesn't scare you?
Are you interested in joining a small focused team delivering high performance world-class computational engines involved in quantitative and predictive matching of students and college?
If so, MyFit wants to talk to you! We are growing our engineering team.
Position Overview
MyFit is looking for a Web Java Front End Senior software engineer to grow and scale its web environment. We use Spring MVC, JSP, JSTL, jQuery, Java in the front end as well as Hibernate, Lucene, Clojure, MySQL and MongoDB on our backend. This is a critical role in the MyFit core engineering team and represents a significant opportunity to grow inside the company.
Responsibilities
Make it cool: Code our page design into wonderful user experience
Make it work: No bugs. High Quality. That's all we ask for.
Coach the team: Help the people on the team learn how to do it better
Teamwork: Work with our cross-functional team to continuously enhance our features and ideas
Benefits
We offer a competitive package, including a stock option program and a comprehensive benefits package. We never forget the individuals involved in helping us achieve our goals. We are not just looking for another member of our team, we are looking for someone we can call a friend.
Come join MyFit.com!
Skills
We do a technical interview with everyone. So be preferred to demonstrate your core skills in:
Front End: Spring MVC, JSP, JSTL, jQuery
Javascript & jQuery
Algorithms & Problem Solving
We usually expect
4+ years of software engineering in a team
2+ years of Agile software development life-cycle
Need to be detail-oriented, resourceful & work well under pressure
Excellent English verbal & written communication skills
MS/BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or Equivalent
Expert Level Skills and Experience (4+ years) with JSP/JSTL Web Development, Javascript / jQuery Front End Coding, Agile Development
Key understanding of Web Engineering & Data Processing
Company Description
MyFit (www.myfit.com) was started by students to create a free service for students suffering through college application process by empowering them with comprehensive analytics and predictive modeling with the evidence to support the conclusions.
On a broader scale, MyFit aims to offer a powerful analytical and planning platform to students and parents as well as colleges, to help them make better decisions, informed by data, more quickly.
MyFit is an early-stage venture backed by a top tier venture capital firm (NEA) and is recruiting employees for our Mountain View, CA office. We are small team building great software. We leverage and contribute to open source. We run on the cloud. We are working hard to build an awesome company culture, something that will be largely defined by the people who join us now.
Additional Information
No third party applications.
Source: Joel On Software