.NET Developer (closed)

McLean, VA
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Job Description

 

We are looking for a vital contributor to join a small team responsible for the design and development of a completely new and highly-sophisticated social media website. The position represents an unparalleled opportunity to join a team that will bring to market an innovative and disruptive form of social investing. This is a tremendous career opportunity for the right candidate to participate in a key initiative within a stable, growing company in a startup-like environment.

Responsibilities
  • Research, design and develop innovative new social media experiences targeted at today's investors.
  • Test engineering. (High-powered developers take pride in creating automated tests to exercise their code. Sophisticated test coverage is extremely important to us.)
Required Skills
  • BS in computer science, or equivalent experience. Degree from a top-ranked computer science school a plus.
  • Strong .NET 3.5+ C#, LINQ, ASP.NET MCV 3 experience.
  • Experience developing and maintaining large-scale rich web applications written in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JavaScript Frameworks (jQuery, Ext JS). Reading HTTP headers is second nature to you.
  • Relational Database experience (modeling, querying, tuning). Experience with ORM's and Entity Framework a plus.
  • Experience creating and consuming web services (REST).
  • Experience with at least one other web stack (Rails, Django, etc.).
  • Software version control and release management experience.
  • Appreciation and experience with open-source technologies.
  • Strong familiarity with social media experiences such as Twitter, Facebook, instant messaging, video sharing, blogging, etc.
  • Exceptional problem solving abilities.
  • Excellent communications skills. (FOLIOfn, Inc. is a collaborative, high-bandwidth communication environment.).
  • Extensive experience architecting and developing large-scale software systems.
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies.
  • Experience building data driven web applications.
Desired Skills
  • Experience building customer facing social-media websites.
  • Domain expertise in financial services.
  • Experience with Java enterprise frameworks (J2EE, JEE, Hibernate, Spring, etc.).
Personal Attributes
  • High level intellect — you understand the global design goals of a complex project and align your design and development efforts accordingly
  • Efficient — you solve problems and accomplish tasks at a high rate of speed
  • Pride in your work — your code is innovative yet easy to read
  • Curiosity — you are able to think expansively and are not constrained by your prior experience
  • Drive — you are dogged in the pursuit of solutions and are not easily side-tracked
  • Self-directed — you are able to work with little supervision, though you enjoy the collaborative process