American Business Association of Russian Professionals

Tired of corporate management layers?  Ready for a new challenge?  Want a job that keeps you learning something new every day?  How about getting paid to contribute to an open-source project?  Want to work with people who are really smart and knowledgeable and create market-leading award-winning web applications?

Then check out our immediate job opening below and help us build a company with the potential to be the next PayPal.

General:

Full time programmer to develop web-based software.  Permanent position in Santa Rosa, California.  Partial (but not complete) tele-commuting possible.  Flexible hours.  H1-B transfer possible.  Relocation assistance.

We are looking for a well-organized, smart and hard-working person.

$100,000-$120,000

Benefits:

• Free snacks and soda
• Reimbursement for technical books
• Medical, dental, vision
• Tax-free POP (Premium-Only Plan) and FSA (Flexible Spending) accounts
• Accrued Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 5 paid days a year for training/learning (on top of PTO)
• 401K plan

About us:

We are a small (5 people) company affiliated and collocated with several other companies totaling ~ 100 employees.  Among other things, we develop and maintain a number of ASP-style browser-based applications for these companies.

Some are custom business applications / extranets.  Others are sold for use by clients as a service (see www.dnc.com as an example of one that won all the industry awards).  Finally, there is an ecommerce services startup with the potential to be the next PayPal.

We are located in a premier downtown location in Santa Rosa, California in the heart of the Wine Country.  This warm and friendly city is an urban blend of art and culture, food, wine and recreation.  Santa Rosa is the largest city between San Francisco and Portland with excellent infrastructure, schools, climate, beautiful environs and is "designed for living".  Real estate is still a lot less than in Silicon Valley.  Several years ago, Santa Rosa was named the second most dynamic city in the US.

Our organizational structure combines the best of small company agility and financial stability of a larger organization.  We have a fast-paced but flexible and relaxed working environment.  We use a common-sense approach to programming and project management using elements of agile software development.  We maintain a "best of breed" world-class IT infrastructure with hardware and software choices based on deep understanding of technology, not vendor hype.

Check out our web site - we have a number of interesting technical articles there

Required:

4-5 years experience developing browser-based applications including user interface design and implementation, writing server-side database-driven code, etc.

Thorough understanding of HTTP protocol and at least one server-side software development framework such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, etc (doesn't matter which one).

Excellent command of SQL, preferably Transact-SQL, including in-depth understanding of locking, transactions, optimal use of indexes and experience writing stored procedures, user defined functions, triggers and the like.

Strong JavaScript skills, including coding AJAX-style dynamic user interfaces, cross-browser event handling, DOM manipulation, etc.  Experience with Dojo, Prototype or similar JavaScript libraries/toolkits would be very helpful.

Must be comfortable with basic Windows Server administration.

Candidate will be required to submit samples of reusable JavaScript code they've written.

Candidate will also be required to submit a sample of past technical writing.

During the interview, among other things, candidate will be required to design a data model from a set of requirements.

Knowledge/skills that are not required but would be a plus:

• XML/XSLT/XPath
• OLAP
• ActionScript/Flash
• Tcl
• C
• AOLserver
• Experience with e-commerce/shopping-cart systems, credit card transactions, custom business applications

Additional Info:

Our primary web application development platform is AOLserver and the Tcl dynamic programming language. We don't expect you to know them.  We do expect that you'll be able to learn Tcl (which is very easy), ~ 300 AOLserver API functions and over 500 functions of our own Framework fairly quickly.

In addition to working on interesting and challenging projects, you'll also be contributing to our Framework and helping with releasing it as an open source project.

We are interested in filling this position right away as it is instrumental to the e-commerce services startup we are launching right now, so APPLY NOW