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About Buzzd:

We are an award winning venture backed technology company based in Union Square, New York that is experiencing rapid growth. buzzd aggregates real-time social content to provide local tools bridging consumers, merchants and brands. For an example of a buzzd product, check out www.buzzd.com.

About You:
You will be our lead developer. Not only will you have great development skills but you are someone who is a strategic thinker and can make technical decisions. Amongst other things you will collaborate with operations to steadily improve the scalability of the current site, while helping develop some really cool new tools and application features. Your work will be critical to meeting our growth and profitability targets and ensuring that our users experience a cool and consistently fast service.

Key Requirements:
Experience working with LAMP systems
Expert knowledge of PHP 4/5
A strong understanding of HTML and coding for cross platform/browser compatibility
Minimum of 2 years of strong Object Oriented design and programming experience
Knowledge of basic Linux systems administration skills
Entrepreneurial excitement, a positive attitude and hunger to get things done

Bonus Skills:
Experience with front-end development skills (AJAX) / Javascript / DHTML, CSS, XML
Experience working with content management systems
Familiarity working with the Symfony PHP framework
Familiarity working with Ruby on Rails
Experience with Memcached, APC, Zend Optimizer or other caching engines

Compensation:
Competitive salary and stock option participation


Benefits & Perks:
Fun, young and cool office in a great location
Medical insurance
A sharp "best of the best" team to work with

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We have a full-time or freelance to full-time opening for an on-site experienced Flash ActionScript Developer to develop and implement interfaces for large scale web sites. The individual will be responsible for bringing a project to life, thus, applicants must show strong understanding of web functionality, animation, usability, and optimization. ... [more]

http://www.krop.com/jobs/55qmp/

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HP/Houston, TX

HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing. Our $4 billion annual R&D investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies so we can better serve customers and enter new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of our customers. - Set and lead the adoption of key social media capabilities, strategies, policies, processes and standards to advance the HP social media ecosystem. Work with the Social Media and Digital Strategy teams to activate the Social Media Strategy through the use of third-party & HP Labs technologies. Partner w/IT, security, privacy, procurement and legal teams to evaluate solutions that meet the business requirements as well as all of HP's policies. Manage the on-boarding process once specific services/products have been vetted (contract/PO/SOW development & sign-off, integration with rest of CS stack), consult w/businesses on use of service, and provide ongoing management of the asset (enhancements, new integrations, vendor management).
- Develop, drive and evaluate new social media programs with our Communities partner (Lithium Technologies) spanning multiple business groups or customer sets (i.e., consumer, small & medium business, enterprise). Provide capability consulting, scope projects, and manage the program funnel. Help with SOW quotations and development initiation with social media partner (Lithium). Coordinate security/privacy requests, update content on the Digital Marketing intranet (e.g., training, upcoming webinars, capability updates, etc.)
- Deliver social media programs that result in significant and measurable improvements in customer experience, revenue, and efficiency/savings
- Be recognized as an authority and thought leader in the social media space, contributing to the development and adoption of innovative principles and practices across HP.
- Select, manage and develop agencies or contractors
- Manage budgets/cross business billing
- Scope can be local, regional or global
- Role can be within a business, function, or corporate
- Frequently interacts with senior levels of the company


Business analyst (BA) or Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Communication, Marketing or Computer Science.
- Expertise and knowledge in the social media space (forums, blogs, wikis, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) including trends and technologies
- 5+ years of experience in digital marketing or social media

Knowledge and Skills Required:
- Superior written and verbal communications skills
- Well-developed web analytical skills (measurement, ROI, forecasting)
- Superior organization and program management skills
- Ability to link digital marketing or social media plans to business results
- Superior knowledge of social media, tools, and technologies
- Superior knowledge of Internet principles, SaaS, & web site production
- Proven experience managing, leading, driving and measuring virtual teams toward a common goal
- High levels of tact and diplomacy
- Agency and budget management
- Ability to interact with all levels of the company, including senior management

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Primary responsibility is to execute design solutions based on initial conceptual and visual direction. Under the guidance of Art Directors, Designers work across a wide range of web-related projects including website designs, Flash animations, banner campaigns, graphic user interfaces, style guides, and presentation materials. This is a great opportunity for ... [more]

http://www.krop.com/jobs/k4rxv/

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Primary responsibility is to lead design and oversee multiple projects. Art Directors are responsible for developing innovative design directions on projects, oversee and mentor designers, and present work to clients. Under the guidance of the Design Director, Art Directors oversee a wide range of web-related projects including website designs, interactive ... [more]

http://www.krop.com/jobs/t2rqk/

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Software Engineer in Test - Services

Apply at http://www.zoosk.com/jobs

Zoosk is looking to add a Software Engineer in Test who is passionate about working on backend services to join us in San Francisco. We're looking for someone with whitebox QA development experience in developing test plans and test cases for large scale services.

You will be responsible for developing test plans, test cases, as well as automation for testing mobile products. This role also includes manual testing of cases not covered with automation.

Responsibilities

* Plan, design, and implement test plans and test cases
* Work closely with both product managers and software engineers to help ensure the reliability of our applications
* Test our products with relentless passion for quality and scalability
* Maintain and extend existing automation scripts
* Report defects and follow up on them through resolution
* Report on release readiness base on test coverage and success rates

Qualifications

* 3 plus years of QA white box testing experience
* Experience with test automation for at least 2 products
* Experience with testing large scale backend services is a definite plus
* Prior experience with test framework such as JUnit or equivalent
* Bachelors degree in Computer Science or similar
* Previous startup experience and development in an Agile development life cycle is desired

Zoosk is one of the largest online dating services in the world, with over 50 million users, close to 20 million daily page views, from Zooskers in 60 countries! With 100 thousand new profiles added daily, we are the single fastest growing dating service on the web and our supersonic performance was recently celebrated in the Wall Street Journals inaugural top 50 Next Big Thing List (March 09, 2010).

http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/NEXT_BIG_THING/NEXT_BIG_THING.html

More at http://www.zoosk.com/press

Working At Zoosk

Zoosk is a VC backed startup and our office is located in downtown San Francisco. We are always looking for open minded, energetic, and driven individuals that love the challenge of turning an established industry upside-down. We build world class social web products and in the process we make sure to have plenty of fun. If you want to work with exceptional people on toughest engineering problems every day, you want to join Zoosk.

Some Benefits of Joining Zoosk

* Sexy MacPro or MacBookPro stations to work in style
* Free beverages and snacks, to keep you fired up
* Free dinner every night
* Medical, dental and vision plans
* Life Insurance and 401K savings plan

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Responsibilities:

Building great web and mobile applications using agile methodologies (Scrum, XP) and open technologies (Python, Java, Flash, Ajax/JavaScript, CSS, HTML) for internal products and European clients (web entertainment company, publishing house, etc.) based in Europe and China.

Requirements:

* CREATIVE AND ANALYTICAL - You must be a great problem solver, with the ability to dive deeply into complex problems and emerge with clear and pragmatic solutions.

* ABILITY TO CREATE EXCELLENT CODE - You must write correct, clean and efficient code that you are proud of. You must be able to learn any programming language. We assume that you can use at least one of Java, C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Perl or PHP.

* PASSION - You must have passion for what you do. Involvement in Open Source projects or a portfolio of your hobby projects is a big plus.

* ABILITY TO LEARN IN ENGLISH - You must have good enough English reading/writing to study new technologies in English quickly, and preferably a good base for improving your spoken English if necessary.

* UNDERSTANDING OF WEB TECHNOLOGIES - We assume that you know HTML and that you can quickly master all the rest. Understanding of network protocols such as HTTP, TCP/IP and DNS as well as core web technologies such as CSS, Javascript, Ajax, DHTML, and others would be a strong advantage.

* PRIOR KNOWLEDGE IS A BIG PLUS - Python, Linux, Twisted, TurboGears, Ruby, on Rails, Django, Scrum, or Extreme Programming

COMPANY PROFILE

Exoweb is a fast-growing technology company specialized in developing great software. Our clients are multinational companies and have worked with us on building super-scalable web services for mobile phones, creating data warehouse systems handle terabytes of data, developing embedded Linux systems, designing consumer-generated websites for publishing companies, and running e-commerce systems with more than US$ 1 billion in turnover.

We are passionate software development professionals, open source believers, usability geeks, and agile methodology practitioners employing the latest technologies and aggressively experimenting with new ones (AJAX, Agile Methodologies, Apache, Cocos2D, Django, Flex, iPhone, JavaScript?, JSON, Linux, Objective-C, PostgreSQL, Python, REST, Twisted, XML, XP).

We are committed to the personal development of our employees and believe that jobs are to be allocated according to a person's ability and interests, rather than age or academic titles. Furthermore a bilingual environment (English and Chinese), flexible working hours, international mates and management, awesome loft-like office space, comfy relaxation area, free soft drinks/tea/gourmet coffee, access to Exoweb's library and magazines as well as numerous ExoEvents all ensure that our employees have a unique, merit-based working environment difficult to find elsewhere.

To get a better impression you can have a look at our website ( http://www.exoweb.net/), our planet ( http://planet.exoweb.net/planet/) and/or our photo pool ( http://picasaweb.google.com/Exoweb).

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Overview:

Barnes & Noble.com is seeking a seasoned analyst to provide Microstrategy based solutions, that will help analyze performance and uncover opportunities and in the various aspects of the retail business.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement reporting application
Setting up and troubleshooting Intelligent , Narrowcast & Web servers
Setting up optimal performance of the reporting application,
performance monitoring, capacity planning, and tuning for multiple members
on multiple projects
Providing technical support; troubleshooting report design;
monitor system usage and proactive troubleshooting.
Providing best practices for MicroStrategy Implementations.
Facilitate report requirements sessions and documentation
SDK recommendations & integration
Perform problem assessment, resolution and documentation, and, performance and quality validation on new and existing reports and environments.
Participate in requirements gathering and design for ongoing development projects.
Write complex SQL queries to satisfy various business needs

Qualifications:

3+ years of MSTR Architect Project Design skills for large applications.
+ years of MSTR Advanced Reporting, Tuning and Administration.
2-3 years of current MSTR dashboard
3+ years of Narrowcast segmentation performance tuning, command manager interface scripting.
2-3 years of MSTR freeform SQL.
Experience with database design and development Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle
Strong Schema Modeling
Excellent SQL Skills
Stay up-to-date on the ongoing technology enhancements within Business Intelligence space
Strong problem solving/analytical skills

Barnesandnoble.com LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V