Who we are:
Where Ive Been is a leading travel social network, dedicated to enabling members to chart their past, present and future travel plans while discovering destinations for their next adventure. Launched in 2007, WIB has quickly grown to more than 9 million registered users who have contributed nearly half a billion travel intents via WIBs innovative, interactive map. WIBs destination site and platform have been built around its proprietary back-end software, which allows user not only to capture their travel history and intentions, but also to share their maps and profile with their social networks.
Is this you??:
WIB is looking for the type of engineer that is driven by challenges, loves solving unique and often difficult, technical problems in a compressed time frame, and someone who can keep in mind the requirements of the business and user experience. Is this you??!! GREAT! Please continue.
Headquarters:
Based in Chicago at the landmark 600 West Chicago Avenue building with easy access to expressways and public transportation. Our building boasts trendy restaurants, bars and a full service health club.
Environment:
Entrepreneurial
Supportive
Fast Paced
Fun
Website: www.whereivebeen.com
Position:
The Web Application Engineer will assist in the development of WIBs social network applications, mobile platform, API layer and stand alone site. This position will garner much exposure as you will work side by side and report directly to WIBs founder and CTO, Craig Ulliott.
Requirements:
Strong comprehension of web and web-related technologies
Server-side application development in PHP
User-side application development in HTML, CSS, and Javascript
Solid knowledge of SQL
Confident problem solver and troubleshooter
Comfortable working in a Linux environment
Comfortable using a Mac
A great appreciation of the entire web stack (a true life-cycle developer)
It would be really cool if you had these too.
Unit testing (test driven development)
Linux
The command line
Ability to set up and maintain nix servers
MYSQL (innodb, transactions, stored procedures, indexing multiple columns, replication, cluster, etc.)
Scaling, optimization, memcache, and actionscript
PHP and Jquery
Data parsing and scraping
Any special interests like natural language processing
Third Party APIs
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Open Solaris
Map reduce (hadoop)
Open source projects
Internationalization
Mobile development
JSON / XML / YAML
Caching (or anything else pertaining to scale)
Bash scripting, specifically when it comes to code pushes, etc.
Image generation (gdlib, etc)
ALSOOOO.if you like to travel and consider yourself well-traveled, or have done a lot of research on travel and thought about it a lot, or have a subscription to National Geographic and read about travel, or if the Travel Channel is set to your favorites on your remote at homewe like that
What we can offer you:
Very Competitive Salary
Chance to help create and establish a start-up that is backed by a great investment team! (Lightbanki.e. GROUPON!!!)
Medical benefits
Extreme Growth and Advancement opportunities!!
Free shuttle bus service to trains
Fun and energetic work environment
Comprehensive training
What we need from you:
We need you to show enthusiasm for past projects you have created! Show them off to us!
Please do not send a list of skills with bullet points(note from recruiter: sorry for all the above bullet points)
But please do send your resume and any samples/examples of your work that you are willing to share to our recruiter or just call him directly.
Bob Szarek Corporate Recruiter LIGHTBANK bszarek@echo.com (312)784-2054
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Where Ive Been is a leading travel social network, dedicated to enabling members to chart their past, present and future travel plans while discovering destinations for their next adventure. Launched in 2007, WIB has quickly grown to more than 9 million registered users who have contributed nearly half a billion travel intents via WIBs innovative, interactive map. WIBs destination site and platform have been built around its proprietary back-end software, which allows user not only to capture their travel history and intentions, but also to share their maps and profile with their social networks.
Is this you??:
WIB is looking for the type of engineer that is driven by challenges, loves solving unique and often difficult, technical problems in a compressed time frame, and someone who can keep in mind the requirements of the business and user experience. Is this you??!! GREAT! Please continue.
Headquarters:
Based in Chicago at the landmark 600 West Chicago Avenue building with easy access to expressways and public transportation. Our building boasts trendy restaurants, bars and a full service health club.
Environment:
Entrepreneurial
Supportive
Fast Paced
Fun
Website: www.whereivebeen.com
Position:
The Web Application Engineer will assist in the development of WIBs social network applications, mobile platform, API layer and stand alone site. This position will garner much exposure as you will work side by side and report directly to WIBs founder and CTO, Craig Ulliott.
Requirements:
Strong comprehension of web and web-related technologies
Server-side application development in PHP
User-side application development in HTML, CSS, and Javascript
Solid knowledge of SQL
Confident problem solver and troubleshooter
Comfortable working in a Linux environment
Comfortable using a Mac
A great appreciation of the entire web stack (a true life-cycle developer)
It would be really cool if you had these too.
Unit testing (test driven development)
Linux
The command line
Ability to set up and maintain nix servers
MYSQL (innodb, transactions, stored procedures, indexing multiple columns, replication, cluster, etc.)
Scaling, optimization, memcache, and actionscript
PHP and Jquery
Data parsing and scraping
Any special interests like natural language processing
Third Party APIs
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Open Solaris
Map reduce (hadoop)
Open source projects
Internationalization
Mobile development
JSON / XML / YAML
Caching (or anything else pertaining to scale)
Bash scripting, specifically when it comes to code pushes, etc.
Image generation (gdlib, etc)
ALSOOOO.if you like to travel and consider yourself well-traveled, or have done a lot of research on travel and thought about it a lot, or have a subscription to National Geographic and read about travel, or if the Travel Channel is set to your favorites on your remote at homewe like that
What we can offer you:
Very Competitive Salary
Chance to help create and establish a start-up that is backed by a great investment team! (Lightbanki.e. GROUPON!!!)
Medical benefits
Extreme Growth and Advancement opportunities!!
Free shuttle bus service to trains
Fun and energetic work environment
Comprehensive training
What we need from you:
We need you to show enthusiasm for past projects you have created! Show them off to us!
Please do not send a list of skills with bullet points(note from recruiter: sorry for all the above bullet points)
But please do send your resume and any samples/examples of your work that you are willing to share to our recruiter or just call him directly.
Bob Szarek Corporate Recruiter LIGHTBANK bszarek@echo.com (312)784-2054
Source: Joel On Software