JavaScript/Server PHP /ASP.NET Web Developer
Are you a passionate web developer who can look at a web site and imagine scenarios? Are you interested in helping some of the largest web sites in the world connect up to the 500 million people who use Windows Live every month? There will be a new wide range of APIs and other extensibility points for Windows Live and we are hiring a team of industry web developers to assist our sales teams with primarily presales implementation work. The role will involve a lot of brainstorming with customers and tin turn helping customers turn that design into reality. You need to understand the social web and be very technical. Our engineers will be working directly with you on any customer problems. You will need to be self-motivating, a master of time management and be loved by customers, business development and engineers alike. This opportunity will let you experience a different side of web development than youve probably ever done before working on connecting large services together.
NOTE: Do not apply if you not have the technical skills, soft skills and work experience as outlined below.
Responsibilities
Ensure the business development team proposals are technically sound and high impact for the customer
Assist a large number of launch partners with their launch implementations (for launch in Q4 FY10)
Provide a steady, predictable stream of customer feedback to the engineering teams
Create a reusable set of collateral, samples, reference implementations
Jumpstart the community (internal on DLs, external in forums/blogging)
Required Experience
Solid front end developer (JavaScript) with server side skills in PHP / ASP.NET
Experience and ability to take mockups of a product being integrated into a website, work with the product (JavaScript) and help customers troubleshoot the implementation on a variety of platforms.
Work directly with engineering teams
Worked for a large website in the past
Domain expert in the latest and emerging web and advertising toold
Required Technical Skills
Master of HTML, CSS, JavaScript & AJAX
Cross browser development & testing
REST / XML / JSON
At least 2 of the social technologies (Facebook Connect, Open Social, Twitter API, Google Friend Connect)
At least 2 of the server side technologies (ASP.NET, PHP, Java, Ruby)
At least 2 of the identity technologies (Open ID, OAuth, BBAuth, Open Auth, Facebook Auth, WS-Trust, WS-Fed)
At least 2 of the emerging standards (ActivityStrea.ms, Portable Contacts)
Trouble shooting tools (Fiddler, Firebug)
Mockup skills using any of these tools: Expression Blend Sketchflow, PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop or other graphics editing packages
Preferable technical skills
Front end / UX
- CSS, HTML, Flash, Silverlight
Server-side technologies
- ASP.NET, PHP, Ruby, Java, Python, Perl - Memcache, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle
Concepts
- REST, SOAP
Preferred soft skills
Graphic Design / User Interface design
Understanding of business of running a web service (the impact of COGS)
Work Experience Required
2+ years full time as a web developer or architect
Preferable if the experience aligns with the Windows Live platform GTMs
Education requirements
Bachelor of Computer Science (preferable)
Bachelor of Design/Art/Marketing (beneficial)
- Location: Austin
- This is a contract job.
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