inMusic LLC: Genius Web Developer

Location: New Orleans, LA
URL: www.liveset.com

If you have a passion for music and experience writing excellent code, building web applications and creating great user experiences - plus the desire to work in an entrepreneurial environment - This is an exciting and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a company that has the potential to make a significant contribution to the music industry, and to change the way artists and fans think about the live concert.

liveset.com is looking to hire a talented, intelligent web developer with a proven ability to do great work.

Desired Outcome: Develop, manage and implement from scratch a process for rolling out the Companys website within 180 days of start date

Initial Responsibilities:

* To develop the strategic plan for the initial launch of the liveset.com site, including choosing the underlying architecture, video encoding language, initial feature set, and timeline for deployment. To work closely with the founder to develop and launch the initial version of the site

* To work closely with the founder to develop a budget for initial launch
* To help communicate the vision for website development to outside constituencies, including current and potential investors and board members
* To help develop the long-range strategic plan for the Company from a technical standpoint, including the timeline for deployment of additional features, mobile applications, social network interoperability, recommendation engine deployment, and other functionality as circumstances dictate
* Ability to assemble and manage a crack team of web developers who share the Company vision, and a comfort level with hiring people smarter than yourself

The Ideal Applicant will have the following traits:

* Ability to write excellent code
* Willingness to move to New Orleans
* Creativity and innovation
* Attention to detail, a strong work ethic and a great attitude
* Honest and integrity; high professional standards
* Strong interpersonal skills
* A history of embracing change and new circumstances with enthusiasm and as an opportunity to take advantage of, rather than as a burden to be dealt with
* A self-starter with the ability to work in a team environment
* And last but not least, a love of music and a desire to have a lot of fun on what will surely be a wild ride....

And the following skill set:

* A passion for and command of all facets of web development, including how to properly build out a standards-based front-end; digital media and streaming experience a plus
* Experience configuring and maintaining a code repository (SVN, GitHub)
* Extensive familiarity managing development through a ticketing system (Pivotal Tracker, Trac, Jira or others)
* Ability to train an engineering team on agile development processes (Scrum)
* Ability to configure applications on scalable architecture (EC2 or Heroku)
* Ability to implement unit testing and industry standard code testing
* Willing to consider a variety of programming backgrounds - applicant will take part in determining the application framework
* A college degree (computer science or MIS) or equivalent real world experience (10,000 hours of web development)
* An online portfolio of live projects
* 5+ years prior experience in designing and developing scalable, community-oriented web sites; digital media and streaming experience preferred
* Prior experience managing people

Perks:

* All the live concerts you can attend
* Competitive compensation and benefits, including significant equity compensation

To apply: Apply Here: http://www.applytracking.com/x.aspx?track=2aNq0Lh7wH7SRtQPZrhm9OuMfgKU5VGkRO8d8rjzAQkP6vYitamCtm4vEEfQ5MrE4amVSV3BJwwXtfYUIpYt4QhFlj9lnwoX

Source: 37 Signals Jobs