From nwalls at ismedia.org Mon Jun 20 14:46:48 2011 From: nwalls at ismedia.org (Nathan L. Walls) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:46:48 -0400 Subject: [Raleigh-talk] Job Opportunity: Senior Application Developer Message-ID: Hi all, WebAssign is looking for a Senior Application Developer. I've attached a link to the job description, but let me talk a bit about what I'm hoping to find for the position. I'm looking for someone who considers themself a software craftsman. This developer is great at coaching and pairing with collegues on the whole development lifecycle. They can relate development tasks with business value. They start development by writing tests. This developer will square projects with the product roadmap and make sure we build features with our long-term goals in mind. This developer's read the Passionate Programmer and the Pragmatic Programmer and wants to help lead a team of developers to fulfill the spirit of those books. Ideal candidates also have significant experience working on large applications with what I'll charitably refer to as "mature" codebases, making them more performant and maintainable. WebAssign offers online homework and grading for college-level mathematics, chemistry and physics. We primarily work with Perl and JavaScript, with some Ruby (likely increasing) and *cough* Flash (likely declining). There's also some opportunity to work with NoSQL datastores, event queues and other fun stuff. We're a mid-sized, locally-owned and profitable company. Salary's commensurate with experience. Benefits are pretty sweet and we have a great office on NC State's Centennial Campus. Candidates who are qualified to work in the US only. No recruiters/agents, please. Please contact me off-list if you have questions at nathan (at) webassign.net. Full job description: http://webassign.net/info/employment/senior_application_developer.html Cheers, Nathan