Thursday, November 13, 2008

Local Matters - UI Engineers, Software Engineers

UI Engineers Denver
Posted by: "milehighheadhunter" jwburquest@comcast.net
Date: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:05 pm ((PST))




It's not about cubicles, endless meetings and rigid communication
protocols. Instead we thrive on a fun,
casual atmosphere and the creativity that can only be found in loving
what we do.

At Local Matters, headquartered in a historic LoDo warehouse, we're
building a team of the smartest, nicest,
funniest, coolest, hippest… you get it… people in the tech
industry. Our management team includes former
Mapquest, Trip.com, The Onion, and Yelp personnel.

We strive to create and maintain best-of-breed web applications, using
state-of-the-art technologies at every level.
As one of our UI Engineers, your work will be seen by millions of users
per day, all over the world.

You might be a great addition to our team if you:

* Are the best UI engineer that you know.
* Are willing to learn and use bleeding-edge web technologies.
* Understand the intricacies and insanities ofcross-browser
development.
* Want to work in a highly challenging and fun environment.
* Would enjoy knocking off work at 3pm on Fridays for happy hour.

Our tight-knit team uses Agile in 2-week iterative development cycles,
working closely on multiple projects with
other team members to meet aggressive schedules. 10% of their time is
spent on research and development,
including contribution back to open-source software projects.

Qualifications:

* 3+ years with core web technologies (HTML, Javascript/DOM, CSS).
* Some experience with prevalent Javascript toolkits/frameworks.
* Experience with mixed-markup languages (JSP/JSTL, PHP, ASP).
* Knowledge of web standards principles and practices.
* An eye for design and layout.
* Ability to work independently from assignment through completion.
* Experience with Agile Methodology.
* Ability to work with Product Managers, Designers and Information
Architects.

If interested, please include a cover letter, resume and salary
requirements to employment@localmatters.com

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24. Software Engineers Denver
Posted by: "milehighheadhunter" jwburquest@comcast.net
Date: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:05 pm ((PST))



Software Engineer


Major Duties & Responsibilities:

We're building some of the highest traffic local search sites in the
world – across voice, wireless, and Internet channels – and
we're looking for the best and the brightest to grow our team.

You might be a great addition to our team if you:

* Are the best problem-solving engineer that you know.
* Are willing to learn and use leading-edge technologies.
* Want to work in a highly challenging and fun environment.
* Would enjoy knocking off work at 3pm on Fridays for happy hour.
* Our tight-knit of engineers develops in agile 2-week iterative
development cycles, working closely on multiple projects with other
team
members to meet aggressive schedules. In addition to writing code to
directly satisfy business requirements, 10% of each engineer's time is
allocated to research and development, including contribution back to
open-source software projects.

Job requirements:

* 4+ years experience with Java in a commercial environment.
* 4+ years experience with web development.
* Good working knowledge of a Dependency Injection framework
(Spring
preferred).
* Experience with an MVC framework such as Struts or Spring MVC.
* Strong communicator.
* Search Engine experience a plus (FAST, Lucene, etc)
* Background in online search directories, online advertising, or
yellow pages a plus.



How to Apply:

If interested, please include a cover letter, resume and salary
requirements to employment@localmatters.com