Social Concepts, Inc. was founded in 2006 with the mission of connecting people on the Internet through social entertainment. We are a team of seasoned Internet start-up professionals based in downtown Redwood City, California. Some of our concepts include www.fubar.com with 3 million users, Taxi Ball, FuMafia and Card Ace. We are currently seeking some bad-ass Software Engineering talent. If you are creative, hard working and have panache for learning from your mistakes we´d like to hear from you.
Responsibilities
* Design and implement new site features for growing suite of social interaction websites.
* Help evolve the engineering process in the company.
* Architect platform capabilities for horizontal scalability and re usability
* Take different ideas and run with them
* Participate in design for geographic distribution of server infrastructure
* Maintain awareness of best practices in the LAMP space and promote them
* Work with a set of proven engineers and management
* Communicates with the project team throughout all stages of design.
* Create superior, original designs for the Web.
* Review information architecture and creative designs for feasibility.
* Develop optimized/cross-platform front-end code in CSS/XHTML, JavaScript, and AJAX.
* Actively participate in brainstorming with the product and engineering team
Technical Skills and Experience
* Extensive knowledge of web technologies and architectures
* 3+ Years of hands-on experience with the following technologies: PHP, AJAX, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript.
* Experience with high performance and scalability web applications
* Strong Written and Communication Skills
* AJAX/Javascript experience
* W3C DOM methods and properties experience.
* Expert in creating clean structured code and style sheets, with a passion for the latest and greatest techniques in web standards.
* Must demonstrate strong interaction and rapid prototype engineering.
* Strong understanding of object oriented development concepts, software design, software quality and performance
* Experience developing technical specifications and deliverables
* Strong experience developing applications based on the LAMP stack architecture (Perl | PHP)
* Strong experience designing, implementing, optimizing and maintaining databases (preferably MySQL)
* Thorough understanding of Object Oriented Principles (OOP)
* Prior experience with start-ups and small team
What we offer our employees:
Competitive Salary: Very competitive Salaries and bonuses. We believe hard work, creativity and loyalty should be recognized and rewarded.
Benefits: We pay 80% of employee benefit premiums; this includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance and disability coverage, as well as the Employee Assistance Program.
Paid Time-off: We offer 10-paid time off days as well as sick time. We are flexible and understand there are days where you just want to work from the couch in your pajamas.
Corporate culture: We like to have fun. We also enjoy weekly catered lunches, a fully stocked kitchen, bi-weekly Laundry & Dry Cleaning services by Purple Tie, movies on our 8ft movie... err.. conference projector screen, and what would a cool start-up environment be without a pool table, ping-pong table, and dart board. With a downtown office location across from the Redwood City train station, our own parking and walking distance to restaurants, coffee, and bars we are an amazing place to work.
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