Software Engineer
Firstborn, an award-winning interactive agency, is in the process of interviewing candidates for a fulltime, on-site position of a Software Engineer in our New York office.
About Firstborn
Firstborn is an independently owned design and technology firm with headquarters in New York City and Los Angeles. Since our inception in 1997, we have created breakthrough interactive tools for high-profile clients in the fashion, beauty, sports, technology and entertainment industries. We are designers, producers and developers who share a passion for translating great ideas into an engaging, intelligent and innovative user experience. Our project teams brainstorm, experiment, and create a product that is well designed, functional, and always unique.
Summary of Responsibilities:
Are you interested in server side development of interactive projects for high-profile clients; ensuring the final deliverable is completed on time, within budget and at the highest level of quality? If you answered yes, then read on. When you join the Firstborn team youll work closely with our Director of Interactive Development and Producers to identify and determine the technical scope of projects. Youll also collaborate with a creative team of interactive designers, front and backend developers, client teams, and other partners to achieve a repeatable progression through the project lifecycle.
You will also have the chance to work on a number of creative projects that include (but are not limited to) ecommerce sites, content management systems, CRMs, microsites, application programming, games, kiosks, web applications and advanced technology broad band implementation.
And, of course, youll also be responsible for programming websites and designing/maintaining databases on an ongoing basis.
Key Duties:
Develop solutions to complex problems that require a high degree of ingenuity and innovation
Identify, focus, and document scope of technology aspects for client projects
Strategic project planning and information architecture
Application development and database design
ecommerce development
Develop custom content management systems and website administration tools
Facilitate communication between client IT groups, 3rd party vendors and internal staff
Conduct QA testing, debugging, deployment
Successfully integrate server side components with client side applications
Internal Responsibilities:
In coordination with internal project staff, identify functional limitations, and design, develop and Q/A server-side technology.
Stay current in new technologies and platforms and be able to adapt to technologies required by clients and projects
Must be hard working, detail oriented, customer focused, a self-starter and a team player
Represent the confidence and ability of agency at the very highest level
Skills and Aptitudes Required:
3+ years experience with Object Oriented PHP, MySQL, XHTML, JavaScript and CSS
Solid AJAX skills using either JQuery, Dojo or Prototype
Strong understanding of client/server security, hashing and encryption algorithms
Experience with SOAP webservices design and development
Knowledge installing, configuring and maintaining LAMP environments
Solid database schema design and implementation skills both transactional and analytical as well as database normalization theory
Experience using version control systems (e.g. SVN)
BS Computer Science or equivalent work experience required
Strong communication skills (both in person and in writing)
Ability and experience working within a collaborative team environment wearing multiple hats.
Proven ability to monitor workload, self-manage time/tasks efficiently, and work on multiple projects at one time
Good to Have:
Experience with any of the following: JSP, Ruby, Python, ASP, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Lua, .NET
Java, Websphere, Tomcat, Weblogic, JBoss
Flash / Flex / AS3 basics
AMF Remoting with any of the following: AMFPHP, Red5, Fluorine
Win32/Cocoa application development
Experience using third party SDKs (iPhone, iTunes, etc)
Experience with open source products / frameworks (Drupal, CakePHP, etc)
Game development experience / interest
Firstborn offers an excellent compensation package that includes:
Competitive salary (compensation will be based on experience)
Medical, Dental, and Long Term Disability Insurance
401k
Casual attire
Pleasant, enthusiastic, fast paced work environment with a lot of great people who love what they do
For immediate and confidential consideration, please email your resume and an overview of your past projects (and URLs) to:
jobs.developer@firstbornmultimedia.com
We regret that we are only able to respond to those selected for an interview. No phone calls or agencies, please.
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Firstborn, an award-winning interactive agency, is in the process of interviewing candidates for a fulltime, on-site position of a Software Engineer in our New York office.
About Firstborn
Firstborn is an independently owned design and technology firm with headquarters in New York City and Los Angeles. Since our inception in 1997, we have created breakthrough interactive tools for high-profile clients in the fashion, beauty, sports, technology and entertainment industries. We are designers, producers and developers who share a passion for translating great ideas into an engaging, intelligent and innovative user experience. Our project teams brainstorm, experiment, and create a product that is well designed, functional, and always unique.
Summary of Responsibilities:
Are you interested in server side development of interactive projects for high-profile clients; ensuring the final deliverable is completed on time, within budget and at the highest level of quality? If you answered yes, then read on. When you join the Firstborn team youll work closely with our Director of Interactive Development and Producers to identify and determine the technical scope of projects. Youll also collaborate with a creative team of interactive designers, front and backend developers, client teams, and other partners to achieve a repeatable progression through the project lifecycle.
You will also have the chance to work on a number of creative projects that include (but are not limited to) ecommerce sites, content management systems, CRMs, microsites, application programming, games, kiosks, web applications and advanced technology broad band implementation.
And, of course, youll also be responsible for programming websites and designing/maintaining databases on an ongoing basis.
Key Duties:
Develop solutions to complex problems that require a high degree of ingenuity and innovation
Identify, focus, and document scope of technology aspects for client projects
Strategic project planning and information architecture
Application development and database design
ecommerce development
Develop custom content management systems and website administration tools
Facilitate communication between client IT groups, 3rd party vendors and internal staff
Conduct QA testing, debugging, deployment
Successfully integrate server side components with client side applications
Internal Responsibilities:
In coordination with internal project staff, identify functional limitations, and design, develop and Q/A server-side technology.
Stay current in new technologies and platforms and be able to adapt to technologies required by clients and projects
Must be hard working, detail oriented, customer focused, a self-starter and a team player
Represent the confidence and ability of agency at the very highest level
Skills and Aptitudes Required:
3+ years experience with Object Oriented PHP, MySQL, XHTML, JavaScript and CSS
Solid AJAX skills using either JQuery, Dojo or Prototype
Strong understanding of client/server security, hashing and encryption algorithms
Experience with SOAP webservices design and development
Knowledge installing, configuring and maintaining LAMP environments
Solid database schema design and implementation skills both transactional and analytical as well as database normalization theory
Experience using version control systems (e.g. SVN)
BS Computer Science or equivalent work experience required
Strong communication skills (both in person and in writing)
Ability and experience working within a collaborative team environment wearing multiple hats.
Proven ability to monitor workload, self-manage time/tasks efficiently, and work on multiple projects at one time
Good to Have:
Experience with any of the following: JSP, Ruby, Python, ASP, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Lua, .NET
Java, Websphere, Tomcat, Weblogic, JBoss
Flash / Flex / AS3 basics
AMF Remoting with any of the following: AMFPHP, Red5, Fluorine
Win32/Cocoa application development
Experience using third party SDKs (iPhone, iTunes, etc)
Experience with open source products / frameworks (Drupal, CakePHP, etc)
Game development experience / interest
Firstborn offers an excellent compensation package that includes:
Competitive salary (compensation will be based on experience)
Medical, Dental, and Long Term Disability Insurance
401k
Casual attire
Pleasant, enthusiastic, fast paced work environment with a lot of great people who love what they do
For immediate and confidential consideration, please email your resume and an overview of your past projects (and URLs) to:
jobs.developer@firstbornmultimedia.com
We regret that we are only able to respond to those selected for an interview. No phone calls or agencies, please.
Source: Joel On Software