We're looking for a Senior ASP.NET Product Engineer to help us build the next generation of our online fundraising service here at Firstgiving.
We're primarily looking for a full-time employee to work from either our office in San Francisco, CA or Boston, MA. We may also consider someone remote if you're exceptional and have a demonstrated track record of being able to successfully contribute on a distributed team.
About the role
We are embarking on a significant rebuild and redesign of our product, most likely based on the .Net MVC pattern and exposing services via REST. Due to the market leading nature of our product we require that the candidate be highly proficient in: MVC, classical ASP.NET and exposure to REST Services. You will be:
* Developing a suite of .NET applications to match the defined technical requirements to fit within a service based architecture.
* Implementing and unit testing new product lines from the core assets of the Firstgiving infrastructure.
* Integrating with social websites, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr.
* Working alongside the front-end developers and product managers to deliver user-centered solutions.
* Coordinating day-to-day activity within the web development team, to ensure that task deadlines are hit.
* Identifying and communicating potential issues to other team leaders that will prevent deadlines being hit and provide progress updates for assigned tasks.
About you
We expect the right candidate will have:
* Significant experience developing popular web applications with ASP.NET 2/3.5 (C#)
* Highly competent with JavaScript and JQuery libraries, and XHR.
* Competence with the MVC Framework
* XHTML/CSS & knowledge of the DOM
* Deep understanding of OO principles and design patterns
* Exposure to REST Services
* Experience working in SOA environment and is familiar with DDD
* Experience in unit testing, integration testing and mocking
* Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
* Familiar with agile scrum methodology
About FirstGiving
FirstGiving is a leading provider of online fundraising services to nonprofits across the US and we are dedicated to helping ordinary people raise money for the causes they care about. Since our launch in 2003, our users have created over 242,000 fundraising pages and have raised over $127 million for 8000+ nonprofits.
We pay well and can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a growing business that's part of something bigger, with plenty of opportunities to learn – and of course enjoy it at the same time. We have unusual investors, who believe in growing our business in a balanced, sustainable way.
Our new San Francisco office is located by the ballpark, walking distance from Caltrain, BART and the South Park neighborhood.
Interested? If you're interested, please send your resume, together with a cover letter describing why you think you are the right person for us to jobs@firstgiving.com.
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