S/W dev positions in downtown Toronto

[Amanda Yilmaz]

Hello all,

My partner, Susan Davis, was recently hired by The FeedRoom, a New
York-based streaming video provider.  She is now the team lead for their
"next-generation broadband video digital asset management system team"
(whew!), and is looking to assemble a team of top-notch developers here
in Toronto.

Details are below.  As far as I understand, this will be a very
pro-Linux/Unix environment (Susan herself runs Gentoo on her desktop
machine).  Do note, however, that these positions are almost certain to
involve dealing with Java and/or Ruby, and they are firm believers in
"agile" development methods (e.g. Scrum, eXtreme Programming, and the
like), so if you hate Java, Ruby and/or "agile" programming, then this
probably isn't the job for you.

Susan will be playing a large role in the hiring, so if you're
interested, please let me know when you send in your resume, so I can
let her know of your TLUG connection.

Please pass this along to anyone you think may be interested.

Thanks,
Amanda

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For anyone who hasn't heard yet, I've left Intelliware, and am now the
team lead for The Feedroom's next-generation broadband video digital
asset management system team. I need to assemble a team of top talent;
the opportunity and the technologies involved are really, really cool.
Here's what I'm looking for:

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The Feedroom is the industry's leading provider of broadband streaming
video. Our customers include many of the largest names in media and
twelve of the Fortune 50; you can see some examples on our site at
http://www.feedroom.com.

We're looking for the very best software developers to join our team to
develop the next generation of the company's core digital asset
management system. You'll work with some of the best software talent in
the business on a fast-paced agile team, doing "green field" development
in the hottest new technologies (Flex and Apollo, with a SOA back end)
for a project with a great deal of visibility. Our offices are located
in Toronto's downtown core, close to the subway, and you'll work in an
agile project room filled with sharp coworkers, with a panoramic view of
Toronto Harbour.

We're looking for people who

   1. are brilliant,
   2. get things done on time, and
   3. work well with the rest of our team.

We're looking for "A list" developers who are "generalizing
specialists." We're going to be developing high-performance,
mission-critical enterprise software that needs to be rock solid and
very, very scalable, and we expect you to either come to us with a track
record of successfully developing such systems, or prove to us that
you're sharp enough to get up to speed on the problems involved very
quickly. We're very picky about who we hire, we're unapologetic about
that fact, and we care a lot more about your problem solving skills and
your ability to write well-tested, well-designed, efficient code than we
do about how many years of experience you have with which specific
technologies.

That said, having any or all of the following characteristics would make
you more attractive to us:

    * Experience with Flex, especially in concert with Apollo, and
    especially especially in concert with Cairngorm, Flexible Rails, or
    the like.
    * Other experience with ActionScript, Flash, OpenLaszlo, and related
    technologies.
    * Experience with AJAX, DHTML, applets, and other technologies for
    creating rich client experiences.
    * Interface design and usability expertise.
    * Familiarity with Alfresco, OpenCMS, or other content management
    systems, especially their internals.
    * Workflow management experience with a framework such as jBPM.
    * Real-world SOA experience, with BPEL an extra plus.
    * An informed opinion about the relative merits of REST vs. WS-*,
    and the ability to clearly articulate it.
    * Recent enterprise Java experience, particularly with frameworks
    such as Spring and Hibernate.
    * Extensive SQL experience, including a clue about good data
    modeling, query optimization, and object/relational mapping issues.
    * Experience with aspect-oriented programming.
    * Security expertise.
    * Experience with agile methods such as Scrum and XP, with
    experience in leadership or in self-organizing teams a plus.
    * Test-driven development experience, and superior testing skills.
    * Continuous integration, source control, and project build
    expertise, particularly Maven, Ant, Raven/JRake, and so forth.
    * Strong object-oriented design, patterns, UML, and refactoring
    expertise.
    * Experience with dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy,
    especially used inside the JVM.
    * Operations and high-availability engineering experience.
    * Skill and interest in mentoring junior and intermediate
    developers.
    * A regular habit of reading up on the latest technologies, and a
    track record of applying them to help projects you've worked on.
    * Superior communications skills.
    * Passion and enthusiasm.

We don't expect every successful candidate to have every one of those
qualities, but they're all pluses. And successfully convincing us that
there's an important point that we left off that list, and bringing to
us relevant experience in it, would make you particularly attractive.

We offer extremely competitive compensation, a good work/life balance,
and the opportunity to help shape the direction of tomorrow's systems.
If you're a high performer in search of a great opportunity, and would
like to join an all-star team of other high performers, please send a
copy of your resume in confidence to jobs-fcfbFhjiv9xWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org, and let's talk!

***

Amanda Yilmaz (for Susan Davis) 
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