About Skype
Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles.
The Brief
Skype is looking for passionate, team-oriented and self-motivated developers for our constantly expanding engineering team.
You will be delighting our users through building highly scalable web applications. You will work in a dynamic environment on highly visible products, participating in all steps of the product lifecycle -from ideation to sustaining.
You have an established background of delivering cutting edge web applications. You are capable of designing and developing new functionality, as well as consistently supporting on-going maintenance releases. A healthy balance of technical muscle and business insight paired with appetite of learning new technologies is something that defines you.
Key Responsibilities
- Developing Skype's web applications, focusing on backend development
- Tasks include: creating technical design, programming, documenting, creating unit-tests, troubleshooting and bug fixing
- Work together with colleagues on code reviews, internal infrastructure, and process improvements
Pre-requisite knowledge, skills and experience
- You're master in PHP, SQL and relational database structures/functions
- Good knowledge of Internet/web technologies web browsers, XHTML, HTTP and JavaScript
- 3+ years LAMP production-level development experience
- You know how to make web applications scale and have experience in implementing and supporting complex data-driven sites/applications
- You prefer short deadlines and measurable work-units, seeing your code ship makes you tick
- Experience with PostgreSQL, PL/SQL, Java, Perl, Python, Templates and CASE (UML) is a plus
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred
Requirements that apply to all developers
- Excellent communicator and fluent in English
- Ability to work in a multi-tasking and agile development environment
- Good technical, analytical and communication skills
- Mindset to "deliver before deadlines", strive towards innovation and process improvements
- Quick learner
This position requires an H1 Visa, Permanent Residency, or US Citizenship.
Behaviours
- Team comes first - personal agenda doesn't drive your actions
- You keep people informed proactively
- You use your own product thoroughly, you're an expert user
- You have a "no complaining without suggesting a solution" attitude
- You enforce common values and behaviours
- You report all bugs you encounter, even if the bug is trivial
- You help people out and are the first to offer that help.
- You take pride in your work and you give others fair credit for theirs
- You assess how your actions and decisions might impact others and "put yourself into their shoes"
- You take preventive measures to make sure misunderstandings are minimized through proactive communication
- You admit your mistakes (preferably before others point them out)
- You respect others time and expect others to respect yours
- Not only your belief/point of view is always right - there can be alterative beliefs co-existing with yours
- You challenge the status quo
- You differentiate states between "generalist" and "specialist" and you know when to change gears
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Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles.
The Brief
Skype is looking for passionate, team-oriented and self-motivated developers for our constantly expanding engineering team.
You will be delighting our users through building highly scalable web applications. You will work in a dynamic environment on highly visible products, participating in all steps of the product lifecycle -from ideation to sustaining.
You have an established background of delivering cutting edge web applications. You are capable of designing and developing new functionality, as well as consistently supporting on-going maintenance releases. A healthy balance of technical muscle and business insight paired with appetite of learning new technologies is something that defines you.
Key Responsibilities
- Developing Skype's web applications, focusing on backend development
- Tasks include: creating technical design, programming, documenting, creating unit-tests, troubleshooting and bug fixing
- Work together with colleagues on code reviews, internal infrastructure, and process improvements
Pre-requisite knowledge, skills and experience
- You're master in PHP, SQL and relational database structures/functions
- Good knowledge of Internet/web technologies web browsers, XHTML, HTTP and JavaScript
- 3+ years LAMP production-level development experience
- You know how to make web applications scale and have experience in implementing and supporting complex data-driven sites/applications
- You prefer short deadlines and measurable work-units, seeing your code ship makes you tick
- Experience with PostgreSQL, PL/SQL, Java, Perl, Python, Templates and CASE (UML) is a plus
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred
Requirements that apply to all developers
- Excellent communicator and fluent in English
- Ability to work in a multi-tasking and agile development environment
- Good technical, analytical and communication skills
- Mindset to "deliver before deadlines", strive towards innovation and process improvements
- Quick learner
This position requires an H1 Visa, Permanent Residency, or US Citizenship.
Behaviours
- Team comes first - personal agenda doesn't drive your actions
- You keep people informed proactively
- You use your own product thoroughly, you're an expert user
- You have a "no complaining without suggesting a solution" attitude
- You enforce common values and behaviours
- You report all bugs you encounter, even if the bug is trivial
- You help people out and are the first to offer that help.
- You take pride in your work and you give others fair credit for theirs
- You assess how your actions and decisions might impact others and "put yourself into their shoes"
- You take preventive measures to make sure misunderstandings are minimized through proactive communication
- You admit your mistakes (preferably before others point them out)
- You respect others time and expect others to respect yours
- Not only your belief/point of view is always right - there can be alterative beliefs co-existing with yours
- You challenge the status quo
- You differentiate states between "generalist" and "specialist" and you know when to change gears
Source: Joel On Software
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