Sr. Software Engineer - UI

Burlingame, CA


Are you passionate about building highly interactive web applications? Do you have a flair for innovation and solving challenging problems?
 
Come see why industry analysts call our innovations “game changing” and leading edge companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, Zappos, TiVo and many more use the Jobvite platform to power their hiring. We are an award winning SaaS Company that is revolutionizing the $165B recruitment market with  a hiring platform based on cutting edge technologies and social network integrations. Jobvite was recently featured in New York Times,  has been awarded the “TiE50 Winner, Top 10 Software Startups” award and recognized by Gartner Group as a “Cool Vendor”.
 
We are committed to building an interactive application that is extremely straightforward, consistent and simple to use for both business and consumer users of our application. Our clients expect that we bring Web 2.0 simplicity and ease of use to our world-class SaaS platform. We have a collaborative, team-oriented, consensus building approach to design and development, and believe in taking ideas and inspiration from a wide variety of sources
  
The Role:
 
If you are a dynamic, results-oriented, passionate, self-starting, innovative rock star engineer with an obsession for building highly interactive and scalable social web applications, you’ll love it here.
 

You"ll use your passion, technical expertise and strong problem solving skills to develop the most engaging social applications that provide the best user experience, software infrastructure for our platform, enhance our existing core services, and implement key components of our product roadmap.
 
This role presents unique challenges from making a complex process intuitive and easy to use for both consumers and enterprises, to designing/developing cutting edge social recruiting applications, widgets and third-party integrations.
  • Create, communicate and execute a vision and strategy for Front End design and development
  • Work well in a user-centered agile development process by collaborating with the UX, Product teams and engineering team members to drive our platform  towards the next generation
  • Develop dynamic and intuitive interfaces for web-based application using JavaScript, AJAX and popular frameworks such as JQuery, or Dojo or EXTJS
  • Develop JavaScript libraries, components and widgets
  • Innovate new features as well as provide improvement to our existing application
What you bring:
  • 3- 10 years of experience developing Web apps for large consumer websites
  •  Expert level experience on JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, and one of the frameworks JQuery / YUI/ EXTJS
  •  Working knowledge of Java / JSP or PHP
  • Self-starter who can get things done in an emerging, high-growth Company
  • Knowledge of Web 2.0 and cutting edge Open Source technologies
  • Wii Tennis and Golf experts, a plus 
Qualifications:
  •  Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience 
Jobvite's corporate recruiting platform is revolutionizing the way companies identify, engage and hire talent. Jobvite is the only recruitment application built to involve all employees in the hiring process, leverage their social and professional networks, and manage all aspects of the hiring workflow in an easy to use platform that's effortless to implement. Jobvite is a native SaaS application, built on Web 2.0 technologies.
 
We are a well-funded start-up with a unique product and a rapidly growing customer base. Our offices are located in downtown San Francisco, where we are building a team of the Bay Area's best and brightest minds to deliver a compelling SaaS solution to an under-penetrated SME market.
 
Recently featured in the New York Times and winner of the 2009 TiE50 Top 10 Software Startups. This is a rare opportunity for a Design rock star to join a fun and exciting start-up and make a big impact.
 
We offer a competitive salary, medical/dental benefits, PTO, paid holidays, and pre-IPO stock, along with an industrial strength espresso machine to feed your caffeine addiction!
 
Please visit us at www.jobvite.com to learn more and view our Product Tour.
 
Jobvite is an equal opportunity employer.
 
 




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