(New York, NY)
Situation Interactive is an award-winning, innovative interactive agency specializing in live entertainment. As a member of our growing team, you will be involved in next generation web, mobile and interactive projects for high-profile clients including Tony and Academy Award winning productions. You will join a talented group of Designers, Developers, Copy Writers and Project Managers in a cool, casual working environment located in Midtown, Manhattan.
Our work:
Our diverse range of clients gives our Creative Team opportunity to innovate in all areas of the creative process, be it concepting and strategy, interface design, animation, or development. Our work on Next to Normal: The Twitter Performance won the Best in Show OMMA during this year's Advertising Week. As a member of our team you will work collaboratively with people specializing in all of these disciplines to create rich, interactive experiences that are on the cutting edge of web design.
To learn more about our agency visit our website at www.situationinteractive.com
The Job:
We currently have an opening for a web developer. This is a fast-paced, high-profile development position focused on front-end web applications. The ideal candidate is self-motivated yet seeks collaboration, thrives when challenged, is a ultimately team player, and is dedicated to staying at the forefront of emerging technologies. We prefer out-of-the-box, innovative developers.
Requirements:
- Extensive knowledge of (x)HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and SQL
- Strong working knowledge of CakePHP and/or Rails frameworks, as well as jQuery
- Understanding of OOP and metaprogramming techniques
- Working knowledge of Photoshop
- Able to understand and use Linux via command line
- Standards-compliant front-end development techniques
- Focus on best-practice programming techniques and language semantics
- Comfortable with complex and relational databases as well as ORM
- Able to work well in collaborative development environment
- Able to modify, expand, or refactor existing code contextually
- Extreme attention to detail
- Strong desire to learn
Bonuses:
- Familiar with various design patterns (esp. factories and singletons)
- Interactive agency experience
- Strong sense of design
- Able to use AS2/AS3 comfortably
- Strong knowledge of SVN and remote application deployment
- Familiar and comfortable with RESTful development, web services, common APIs (Facebook, Amazon EC2/S3, Twitter, YouTube, etc), Facebook Connect, and oAuth
- A sense of humor
Please send us your resume and portfolio or links to examples of your work. Please specify your role in each project. If selected, please be prepared to present and discuss some examples of your work, including source code.
This is a full-time, on-site position offering 401k and health benefits.
To learn more about our agency visit our website at www.situationinteractive.comJob Perks: Full Health Benefits and 401k Package
Apply: Please submit your resume and portfolio to careers@situationinteractive.com
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