Overview
Do you love writing code? Feel perfectly at home on the both the server AND client sides of development? Hold execution and interaction in equal regard? You might just fit in. We're looking for talented and motivated web engineers who love to work with front end technologies.
About TheFind:
TheFind’s patented search, browse and discovery technology is expanding the eCommerce landscape through social, mobile and tablet commerce innovations. TheFind.com is a search destination where millions of shoppers are finding the best products from every online and local store.
Leveraging the company’s unique ability to surface and categorize more than 500 million product offers from 500,000 stores along with their identifying attributes, TheFind is building the only comprehensive map of the merchandise, stores and brands that people “Like”. The result is Glimpse by TheFind, a new way to discover products that is instantly personal and socially curated using Facebook’s OpenGraph and other signals.
TheFind Mobile empowers smart phone equipped shoppers with a powerful in-store companion that combines barcode scanning and text search to surface local and online prices and availability for nearly any product imaginable.
A pioneer and market leader in the tablet commerce space, TheFind revolutionized catalog shopping with the launch of Catalogue by TheFind, a shopping app for the iPad, Kindle Fire, Android tablets and large screen smart phones, where you can browse more than 170 popular catalog titles.
Ranked number 12 on the 2010 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies, TheFind was founded in 2005, venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.
Responsibilities
Technically anchor a small team of front end engineers, providing oversight for best code practices, design reviews and technology decisions
Collaborate actively with cross departmental technology leadership
Work with management and stakeholders to ensure product initiatives can be met
Participate in project scoping and lead front end technical definitions
Hands on infrastructure and feature application development utilizing entire technology stack
Be a superhero
Skills
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Expert level LAMP development skills (PHP, MySQL)
Expert level HTML, HTML5, CSS
Strong Object-Oriented Javascript experience
Intimate knowledge of cross browser and mobile web best practices
Proven history of working with MVC frameworks
Track record of successful application and systems design
Strong systems and troubleshooting experience
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DESIRED SKILLS:
Release management experience
Experience with Cassandra, Thrift, XML, JSON
Experience with Smarty or similar template engine
Working knowledge of Facebook OpenGraph, OAuth
Experience working with remote team-members
Education
6+ years experience building high-volume web applications in rapid release cycles
BS in Computer Science with strong software engineering background
Compensation
We offer competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, 401K, etc. You’ll be joining a group of experienced folks who love to innovate.
If interested, email engjobs _at_ thefind _dot_ com