Director of Application Development

We are searching for a hands on Director of Development to manage a team of five to eight developers responsible for the creation of our industry leading product.

Who are we looking for? Someone who:

- Is hands-on, and will also develop alongside other developers he/she manages.

- Loves to make customers and users happy.

- Is self-motivated, productive, and works well even without formal structure.

- Is curious about things and desires to do stuff better, faster, more efficient.

- Completes quality work on time.

- Communicates well with technical and non-technical people, both written and orally.

- Helps make our team and teammates better.

You should have experience with:

- Managing a team of at least five developers for several years

- Full software development & support lifecycle

- Reliable software development methodology

- Recruiting and mentoring developers

- Managing software development budgets

Technically, you should have experience with:

- Architecting, developing and deploying high-scale, secure web applications.

- Javscript, particularly expert-level with frameworks and tools like jQuery, Ext JS and Google Closure.

- Java and associated web application frameworks.

- HTML + CSS.

- Modern development environments, including distributed source control systems like Mercurial.

- Broad software development responsibility, including design, development, testing and support.

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Helpful:

- Some Linux/Unix and Windows server admin skills

- Experience with Amazon Web Services

- Use of and contribution to open source projects

- JBoss-based Java server application w/ MySQL DBMS and ActiveMQ messaging

- Flash with real-time VOIP & Flash Media Server

- Experience with Windows .NET Client technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation

Other Highlights:

- Opportunity to work with a great team with broad business development experience.

- Progressive company with a strong drive for excellence and success.

- Compensation consisting of salary and equity participation.