Senior Web Developer in Palo Alto, CA @ theBetLink

  • Contact: thebetlinkjob@gmail.com
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Senior Web Developer

About Us:
We are a well-financed startup developing a revolutionary service that will transform the online gaming industry with an exciting new financial exchange and consumer web site that all of your friends will use. We offer a fast-paced, dynamic and challenging experience within an entrepreneurial work environment. This is an opportunity to join the founding engineering team and have a key role in defining the product.

This is a full-time position with significant equity and competitive salary to attract the best. We are located in Palo Alto, close to Caltrain.

Responsibilities:
We’re looking for a highly motivated developer who is exceptionally bright and has experience building web applications. You’ll work with a leading development team creating a large scale consumer web site, working on innovative back end and front end features. We’re building new products from scratch (no legacy code!) for a worldwide audience.

You’ll:
• Build awesome features: Create features that users are clamoring for as well as features they haven’t asked for but you know they’ll love. Your friends and a worldwide audience will all enjoy the fruits of your work.
• Experiment: We use a potpourri of technologies and we’re constantly exploring new, cutting edge technologies.

Qualifications:
• Good design sense and passion for creating products users love
• Expertise writing modular, object-oriented JavaScript and using frameworks such as YUI, Scriptaculous, or Dojo…you’re comfortable with the box models, the DOM, the JavaScript prototype chain, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript debuggers
• Expertise with Ruby or Python and frameworks like Rails or Django
• Expertise hand-coding XHTML and CSS cross-browser
• Experience with Flash/Flex a plus
• Startup experience a plus
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent) from top tier school

Personal Attributes:
• Personable, positive, pro-active and results driven
• Understands the commercial impact of products
• Takes a ‘time-critical’ approach to product development and implementation
• Attention to detail but also an ability to see the bigger picture



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