We are looking for someone who really cares about what they build. Our lean team is talented and our product is profitable. Hopefully, you have clever ideas for interesting products that will challenge us and make an immediate impact. Our small development team with little management hierarchy packs a punch, and drives development of a platform that will soon manage millions of dollars. Hours depend on how much you’re willing to get done and competitive pay and equity come with salads, hot pizza, and beers if that’s your thing.

Sample projects and portfolios are a big plus.

What You’ll Bring:

Ability to bring unique and creative ideas to complex problems

Willingness to challenge yourself, our founders, and the development team

Comfort working in a fluid and growing industry (projected to grow 5x in the next five years)

Desire to dominate our competitors

Facility in managing your own time and motivating yourself

Entrepreneurial spirit

Knack for finding solutions without being chaperoned

What You’ll Do:

Influence and build the engine behind a major, growing Facebook advertising platform

Collaborate across teams to develop dashboards, analytics interfaces, data feeds, and other tools

Target 2:1 ratio of development versus systems/architecture responsibilities

What You’ll Use:

LAMPython, django

JavaScript, jQuery, YUI

Pens, papers, and your brains

They are also looking for entrepreneurial spirit, and education from a good school-ideally with good grades.

Launched in 2007 and headquartered in the Soho neighborhood of New York City, the company now has over 4 million members across the United States.

We offer our employees full benefits including major Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), commutation plan, three weeks Vacation (plus your birthday), and more.

Responsibilities

We’re growing the team again and we’re looking for someone who can lead a handful of developers. You are a hands on developer who likes to get stuff done, but who also can juggle the workstacks and priorities of a few other experienced developers to ensure that their features get completed on time. You’ll report to the Director of Technology and work closely with the other Rails Team Leads to collectively deliver much needed features to the business, release after release.

Of course, you know how to build robust, fault-tolerant software and contribute to the design of new features to ensure that they scale to hundreds of request per second. You want to work hard in a fast paced environment with very smart people.

So, that’s you who are we? We are an exciting, venture-funded community/commerce company implemented entirely in Ruby on Rails. We used to call ourselves a startup, but are now edging out of that category; we’ve been around for a few years and have real users and real revenues. Nevertheless, we still believe in small teams, agile development, quick turnaround, and getting things done.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with RoR projects/web development
• Experience with agile/scrum development processes
• Have lead development teams before
• Ability to work in a small, geographically-distributed team using collaboration tools (Skype, IM, email, mingle)
• Must be detail-oriented and thorough in designing, coding and testing
• Must be able to provide and explain code samples of previous work
• Familiarity with subversion
• Workday overlap with Eastern time zone (UTC-5) and/or GMT
• Test Driven Development
• Experience with consuming and exposing SOAP/rest services
• Worked with service orientated architectures
• Worked with EC2/S3
• Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems
• Comfortable with the DOM, Javascript, HTML, CSS, AJAX

Please send resume to rick@expanxion.net ]]> http://www.expanxion.net/blog/ruby-on-rails-team-lead-nyc-top-e-commerce-company/feed/ 0 http://www.expanxion.net/blog/nyc-java-j2ee-developer-high-volume-personal-finance-site/ http://www.expanxion.net/blog/nyc-java-j2ee-developer-high-volume-personal-finance-site/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:25:47 +0000 Rick http://www.expanxion.net/blog/?p=143 A very fast growing, high volume personal finance company/website in NYC is looking for very good Java J2EE Developers.  Please send your resume to rick@expanxion.net

Java Developer

Objective:
This company is looking for a sharp mid-level Java developer to join its growing technical team in New York City. We need the best of the best, someone who has never met a problem they couldn’t solve, the kind of programmer whose pride keeps her awake until she finds that perfect bit of code (or dirty little hack) to get the project back on track. We need someone that loves to write elegant code but even more than that, loves to make things WORK. We need a coder who’s still growing in the profession but already sees things through the eyes of an architect – someone who thinks about the big picture no matter the task. We need a developer that always codes with performance, scalability, maintainability and concurrency in mind. We need a hacker who reads code like a book and enjoys digging into unfamiliar source, someone who can debug another’s code as easily as they can debug their own. In short, we’re looking for you!

Environment:

You’ll be working a maturing start-up where everywhere still digs in like it’s day one. Here you’ll be moving at the kind of pace you love: fast. The team is still relatively small, so don’t worry about getting pigeon-holed here – you’ll be expected to wear many hats and encouraged to contribute in all phases of development and architecture. Everyone here is extremely talented and a growing expert in their field. At this company you’ll never have to feel like you’re the only one giving it everything you’ve got!

Responsibilities:

• Work with the technical team on the development of the
  website’s application platform.
• Collaborate with senior technical team members on design and
  architecture of new features, feature enhancements and general
  improvements to the application.
• Participate in the overall maintenance of the application, including
  bug fixes, performance
  enhancements and runtime production support.
• Write clean, well-documented and unit-tested code.
• As needed, generate technical documentation for various aspects of
  the application.
• Work with front-end (UI) developers to integrate server-side code
  with UI artifacts.

Experience/Skills:

• At least 4 years experience designing enterprise web applications on the Java/J2EE stack.
• Strong expertise with J2EE technologies and frameworks, particularly Spring, Hibernate, JSP and JSF, but with the ability to code a straight servlet or straight JDBC.
• Expertise in writing database-backed applications, strong knowledge of relational database concepts like SQL, indexes and constraints, transactions and object-relational mapping. Specific experience with MySQL a plus.
• Strong familiarity with the J2EE development environment, including containers like Tomcat or JBoss, Ant or Maven-based build processes, JUnit and IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans.
• Strong understanding of core software concepts of object-oriented programming, algorithms, data structures and design patterns.
• Familiarity with *nix, including basics like grep, tail, ssh, scp, netstat, etc. Preference will be given to vi jockeys and ssh tunnelers.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to convey ideas and suggestions across multiple parties in the company
• Experience in, and eagerness for, working in the rapid-fire environment of a young, dynamic startup.

Attributes:

• Passion for building high-quality web applications
• Self-starter with the ability to work under pressure on multiple tasks
• High energy and a positive attitude in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, start-up environment
• Bachelorʼs degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience. You should be able to explain big O notation without looking on Wikipedia!
• Excellent communication skills, ability to convey ideas and suggestions across multiple parties in the company.

Description

We are a huge cloud shop with Ruby on Rails, advanced JavaScript / MySQL on a Linux / Amazon EC2 / S3 platform. Although we are predominantly a Ruby/Rails shop, we are always excited to find the right technologies for unique challenges. We are looking for very special software engineers to help us continue to scale our systems and develop new and innovative features for our advanced eCommerce platform.

We are a leading online retail site dedicated to delivering a unique, exciting daily shopping experience with a curated selection of offerings across the apparel, accessories, home, shoes, kids, travel and lifestyle categories. Each limited-time sale event offers privileged prices on the best brands and experiences. Most sale events start at noon ET and last only 40 hours.

Launched in 2007 and headquartered in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, we now have over 4 million passionate members across the United States. It is for them that we look to make our systems as fast, reliable and user-friendly as possible.

We offer our employees full benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), three weeks Vacation (plus your birthday), and more.

A few stats about us:

Our apps handle over 1,000 hits and over 28,000 queries per second

Our 4 million members hit “add to cart” up to 150 times per second

Almost 200 employees which consume about 2,000 cups of coffee per weekExperience on big systems/sites with real load

Experience with one or more dynamic, open source and/or system languages including Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, Groovy or JavaScript / C++, Java or C#

Working knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB or Riak

Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems

Comfortable with the DOM, HTML, CSS, AJAX

Experience developing JS/UI tests

Experience with consuming and exposing SOAP/rest services

Worked with service oriented architectures

Experience working with Product / Project management in formulating requirements and providing detailed estimates for implementation

Experience working in Agile environments such as SCRUM, XP, etc.

8 in-house “sate of the art” photo studios where 3,000 images are shot every week

One of the top employers of models (male and female) in NYC

Latest generation MacBook Pros with external monitors for all of our engineers

Skills / Experience

Extensive object-oriented software / web design and development experience a must

Please send resume to:  rick@expanxion.net

We’ve been making some serious changes over here at Expanxion. From Holiday parties at the Montage in Beverly Hills to the New York Team and New Team Members- We’re excited to share with your our new approach to 2012!

They’re finally here! We’ve welcomed 5 new members to our Expanxion family. After a week’s worth of recruiting bootcamp, Teju, Katherine, Alex, Kristen and Erica have joined their teams and are helping to revolutionize Expanxion’s presence… Thats right! They’re Big Stuff!

In continuation of our last blog post, Expanxion is now recruiting in the New York and East Coast markets. This means that we can offer you solutions on a national basis therefore providing our clients and candidates with even more competitive opportunities! We are making history here people!

So you’ve heard about them… you’ve read about them….Time for the drum roll please …  Its our pleasure to introduce you to the one and only,  Expanxion New York Team!

We’d also like to introduce you to the newest members of our Bay Area Team!

We are so excited to jumpstart the 2012 with our newest team members and show the nation what we’re made of!

Keep posted for next months blog as we are sure to have much to tell you about!

Have Questions? Don’t Hesitate!

Until Next Time,

~Expanxion

One Of Our Teams =)

A leading competitor in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Technical Recruiting Market, Expanxion is expanding yet again… That’s right- as of January 2012, we will be launching Expanxion into the New York Market. What does this mean for you as a Client Company? We provide you with an even larger scale of highly qualified candidates. What does this mean for our Candidates? We can offer you even greater position opportunities across multiple markets… It means, we have your best interest at hand and we can’t wait to show you!

Because Expanxion is growing at an extraordinary rate especially on behalf of our new pursuits, we have hired a few new team members who will specialize in our integration into the New York market. Essentially, our L.A, and Bay Area teams will continue to provide highly competitive solutions while our new team will strengthen and expand Expanxion’s leverage on the East Coast. We are very excited and proud of Expanxion’s growth as we are looking forward to working with the opportunities that follow.

On another note, we will be making a greater effort to blog more frequently. At Expanxion, part of our success is our team relationships and team building opportunities that enable us to work together and provide you with the best solutions possible. We want to share our most recent events such as our team appreciation days where the whole company will take an afternoon at the pool or go to ‘iFly” (indoor skydiving- you must try it!), or even have a wine/cheese hour where we chat and catch up.

Team Bonding!

Happy Halloween!!! (2011)

Wine and Cheese Please!

Come back in January and meet the new members of our Team!!!  Questions? We love them- Ask away!…. Comments? Those are fun too- by all means!

-The Expanxion Team

Responsible for development of tools and processes to update and maintain the Trusted Network

• Minimum BA/BS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering
• Experience working with Windows consumer desktop applications
• Experience with WCF and .net
• Experience working in a fast paced highly dynamic environment
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment
• Experience with a Visual Studio/Team Systems development environment
• Demonstrated ability and desire to work independently and solve complex system level software problems with innovative solutions

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in software development
• 3+ years using c#, WPF, XAML, WCF and .net
• Deep understanding of Cookies, HTML, Javascript, Flash, etc

rick@expanxion.net

Senior Javascript Engineer

We are looking for a Javascript Engineer that can create dynamic interfaces and deliver an awesome user experience for our users. You will need to be highly skilled in Javascript, HTML, CSS and comfortable in a high paced startup environment.

Duties

• Rapidly prototype, design, and implement new features
• Implement innovative and clean user interfaces
• Participate in group design and problem solving discussions
• Stay relevant with related technologies and suggest innovative solutions

Requirements

• Extensive experience building non-trivial web applications by hand
• Expert Javascript programming and debugging skills
• Experience working with and creating AJAX applications
• Fluent in CSS, HTML, DHTML, and related technologies
• Experience with Javascript frameworks (jQuery, GWT, YUI, etc)
• Experience working with RESTful Web Services
• Unix/Linux experience
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Highly Desired

• Experience developing Firefox browser add-ons/extensions
• Familiarity with web transport protocols (HTTP/S, SSL)
• Experience testing web applications (unit tests, Selenium, etc.)
• Startup experience

rick@expanxon.net

Jordan (Friend/Former Colleague) and I arrived to a busy scene Tuesday morning at the LA Convention Center where E3 was being held.  We quickly hopped in the Will Call line to pick up our badges, only to find out that Jordan’s name was no where to be found in the system.  I made a quick call to my friend at Konami and BAM: Jordan transformed into Dante LOL.  Credentialed, Jordan and I grabbed a quick bite to eat and then headed into the main showroom (South Hall) for E3.  First stop was the Konami booth to say hello to my friend, unfortunately she was no where to be found.  Inside the Konami exhibit Jordan and I observed 1vs1 gameplay setup for DDR.  As we were contemplating battling one another, a Konami Rep approached us and asked us if we would like to play, we asked if he was any good and he said “Yes, very good in fact”.  So of course Jordan and I asked for a demo in expert mode lol.  Hands down one of the funniest things to watch, but I will give credit where credit is due – he killed it!  As the day progressed we met with our friends at Square-Enix, checked out the MW3 Trailer at Activision and were honored with a tour of Rachet & Clank” All 4 One 3D and Resistance 3 by the Lead Programmer/Friend!

All in all E3 was fun, but I guess I had higher expectations (was hoping for some cool swag, MW3 gameplay and more next gen gaming).

Cheers,
Drew