Work at Socialtext
Senior Software Engineer
Socialtext is hiring Web developers to integrate our award-winning enterprise wiki/blog application into our customers' enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will have both excellent technical credentials and a friendly, can-do, consultative approach to solving a clients needs. Bonus points if Perl is just one of your language/platform passions.
Are you a top-notch software developer? Does the idea of solving challenging problems in social and collaborative software with exceptional peers set your pulse racing? Are you interested in being on the bleeding edge of what distributed agile development teams are accomplishing? Are you driven by using your skills to solve problems for customers?
Required attributes
- Passion about social and collaborative online applications
- Perl, Directory Integration, REST, scripts, and CSS experience.
- Ability to creatively plan and solve problems
- Clear communications in writing, by phone, and in person
- Comfort working in a distributed agile team
- Breadth and depth of computer programming expertise
- Experience developing online software services
- Ability to scope new projects and deliver on time, on quality
- Desire to solve real problems for cool customers
- Document exceptions and field customizations for inclusion into core product
Desired attributes
- 5+ years programming experience with a LAMP stack
- 3+ years web development, including Perl, Directory Integration, SharePoint
- Web 2.0 and customer facing developer experience
- Experience deploying x86 servers, TCP/IP networking, IPC, cron jobs, etc.
- Facile developing in a variety of programming languages and environments
- Startup and scaling experience handy.
Recommended interests
- Web services and online APIs
- Writing scalable, globably distributed applications
- UI and human-computer interaction design
- Enterprise application integration
- Blogs, wikis, folksonomy
- "Web 2.0" interfaces and platforms
To be considered, please send your e-mail to jobs@socialtext.com with your full name in the subject line as well as the position. In the body of the e-mail please put with square brackets [Job: Customer Integration Software Engineer]. Paste your resume as text in the body of the e-mail.