Web Dev, Javascript Sensai, Ajax Action Hero

"Change the game"

To make an inquiry or to submit a resume, please contact: Heather Holmes

Location:
Toronto, Ontario

The Opportunity:
This Toronto-based start-up is seeking a superstar web developer. Your job as javascript/ajax guru will be to piece together (and build the pieces for) the company’s gaming/social networking portal.

This is wide-ranging and challenging work that in some cases has never be done before. In essence you’ll be developing all the bells and whistles of a social networking site, plus creating an environment where online game players meet and compete against each other…for more than just bragging rights.

This role will put your Javascript and Ajax expertise to the test (see the Java Developer role if you’re a specialist in Struts). The portal’s environment is acutely interactive and highly data- driven, with a healthy need for security, privacy, and scalability.

You’ll work with the CTO to design and develop blackbox features related to:

• Managing gaming tournaments and one-on-one challenges
• Player profile pages, reputation and ranking
• Player’s social interaction and preferences
• Much, much more

A recent media tour saw this company splashed on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and featured on both Fox Business and G4 TV.

You’ll need to be a deft coder who understands and enjoys the interaction between web presentation and server-side data (for example, registration, financial, results validation and customer service)

The company has built a working alpha, but the development timeline calls for dozens of built-from-the-ground-up features. You’ll be a big part of that development.

This is an opportunity to ‘mash up’ two of the most influential and sweeping social trends of the information age.

In short, it’s a chance to change the game.

Who Should Apply:
You are a frontside Java guru, experienced in JavaScript frameworks and AJAX. You also understand Struts, JSP, EXTJS and Java and are experienced in writing cross-browser portable code. You are a self starter and team player, comfortable and excited about a startup environment, and are looking to be challenged and grow professionally.

• Ideally coming from medium complexity sites using jQuery or other JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience working on web-services and databases.
• Experience building highly-available clustered web applications.
• Understand security and the levels of protection that must be developed.
• Ability to solve problems quickly, automate processes, prior experience in leading technical peers and contributing to planning and technical design.
• In depth knowledge of multiple application toolsets.
• Experience with advanced concepts of coding and SDLC processes and procedures.

Joining the company at this stage gives you an opportunity to influence strategic decisions and brainstorm features for a pioneering product

And things are just getting started.

As Microsoft and Sony’s game consoles bring millions of game players together online, entrepreneurs are filling—and monetizing—the gaps.

In this case, this company’s founders (themselves gamers) saw that online gaming portals weren’t fulfilling their promise of helping gamers:

• Join or schedule online games quickly easily
• Create a permanent profile and ‘reputation’ across multiple games, and
• Play head-to-head or in tournaments for more than just bragging rights.

So they built a product that does all three.

Operating out of a subway-accessible office in north Toronto, they’ve spent two years putting the pieces together and are now in Alpha testing. The team is small, agile, democratic and looking for top-tier talent across a number of disciplines.

A recent media tour saw this company splashed on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and featured on both Fox Business and G4 TV. The San Francisco Chronicle named them as one of the ‘top five’ biggest stories coming out of February’s Game Developer Conference.

The team is small, agile, democratic and looking for top-tier talent across a number of disciplines

Many challenges, product decisions and growth areas remain and the pace is that of a ‘start-up’—tight deadlines and lightning-quick development. But that’s what happens when you are first-to-market: big pressure, big opportunities, and big rewards.

Joining the company at this stage gives you an opportunity to influence strategic decisions and brainstorm features for a pioneering product.

Millions of gamers are waiting for you.

Contact
To make an inquiry or to submit a resume, please contact: Heather Holmes